2018 Hugo Winners Announced

The winners of the Hugo Award were announced tonight at the 2018 Worldcon, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, taking place in San Jose this year. I shared the excellent ballot when it was released, and longtime readers will know how invested I am in the award. I voted this year, as I do every year. The ballot was great, and many categories were super hard to rank.

Best Novel:

Winner: The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin

Provenance by Ann Leckie
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee

Best Novella:

Winner: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang]
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker

Best Novelette:

Winner: The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer

Children of Thorns, Children of Water by Aliette de Bodard
A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Extracurricular Activities by Yoon Ha Lee
Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by K.M. Szpara
Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker

Best Short Story:

Winner: Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse

Fandom for Robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand by Fran Wilde
Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Martian Obelisk by Linda Nagata
Sun, Moon, Dust by Ursula Vernon

Best Series:

Winner: World of the Five Gods by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Divine Cities by Robert Jackson Bennett
Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells
The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
inCryptid by Seanan McGuire
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

Best Related Work:

Winner: No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal
Crash Override by Zoe Quinn
Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction) by Paul Kincaid
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison by Nat Segaloff
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Liz Bourke

Best Graphic Story:

Winner: Monstress Vol. 2

Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
Black Bolt (2017-), Vol. 1
Saga Vol. 7
My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Paper Girls, Volume 3

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):

Winner: Wonder Woman

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Thor: Ragnarok
Get Out
Blade Runner 2049
The Shape of Water

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):

Winner: The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem”

Black Mirror: “USS Callister”
“The Deep” [song], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)
Doctor Who: “Twice Upon a Time”
The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit”
Star Trek: Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

Best Professional Editor (Long Form):

Winner: Sheila E. Gilbert

Navah Wolfe
Joe Monti
Diana Pho
Devi Pillai
Miriam Weinberg

Best Professional Editor (Short Form):

Winner: Michael Damian Thomas & Lynne M Thomas

John Joseph Adams
Lee Harris
Neil Clarke
Jonathan Strahan
Sheila Williams

Best Professional Artist:

Winner: Sana Takeda

Victo Ngai
Galen Dara
Kathleen Jennings
Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
John Picacio

Best Semiprozine:

Winner: Uncanny Magazine

Fireside Magazine
The Book Smugglers
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Escape Pod
Strange Horizons

Best Fanzine:

Winner: File 770

nerds of a feather, flock together
SF Bluestocking
Galactic Journey
Journey Planet
Rocket Stack Rank

Best Fancast:

Winner: Ditch Diggers

Galactic Suburbia
Verity
The Coode Street Podcast
Fangirl Happy Hour
Sword and Laser

Best Fan Writer

Winner: Sarah Gailey

Camestros Felapton
Foz Meadows
Mike Glyer
Charles Payseur
Bogi Takács

Best Fan Artist:

Winner: Geneva Benton

Likhain/M. Sereno
Grace Fong
Maya Hahto
Spring Schoenhuth
Steve Stiles

Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo):

Winner: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Summer in Orcus written by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)

John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):

Winner: Rebecca Roanhorse

Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rivers Solomon
Sarah Kuhn
Katherine Arden
Jeannette Ng