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Emily Tesh and Ann Leckie triumph at the Hugo Awards 2024
Two of the Hugo Awards 2024 went to Orbit UK authors, including Emily Tesh who won Best Novel for Some Desperate Glory and Ann Leckie who took home the Best Series award for Imperial Radch.
The awards recognise excellence in the science fiction and fantasy community. The winners were announced as part of the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held in Glasgow on 11th August at the Clyde Auditorium. The winners in each category are decided by majority ballots cast by members of the 2023 and 2024 Worldcon.
Other prizes included Best Novella which went to T Kingfisher for Thornhedge (Titan UK) and Naomi Kritzer won the prize for Best Novelette with The Year Without Sunshine, published in the November-December 2023 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Dr Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith’s non-fiction title A City on Mars (Penguin Press) bagged the Hugo Award for Best Related Work and Brian K Vaughan’s Saga Volume 11 (Image Comics), with art by Fiona Staples, took home the prize for Best Graphic Story or Comic.
Neil Clarke, editor of Clarkeworld Magazine, clinched the Best Editor, Short Form Award and Ruoxi Chen bagged the prize for Best Editor, Long Form.
HarperCollins’ Natasha Bardon received enough votes to qualify for the final award, but declined nomination according to the Hugo Award website.
The awards also recognise science fiction and fantasy films, television shows and games. "Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves", directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, won Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form while "Long, Long Time", the third episode of the television show "The Last Of Us", adapted from the eponymous video game, was awarded Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
The full list of winners can be found on the Hugo Awards website.
This year’s ceremony comes after a bout of controversy following last year’s awards where authors R F Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Neil Gaiman were deemed ineligible for their respective categories despite receiving enough nominating votes.
On 11th August, Kuang posted photos on Instagram from the Alfies, a private event hosted by George R R Martin for those who were ruled ineligible for last year’s Hugo Awards. Kuang received an "Alfie" for Best Novel with Babel (HarperVoyager), which was disqualified for the Hugo Best Novel Award last year.
