The winners of the Hugo Awards, given annually to outstanding works of science fiction and fantasy, were announced at a ceremony at LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, in Anaheim, California.
Alix E. Harrow took home the best novel prize for The Everlasting; the book previously won the Locus Award for best fantasy novel. A critic for Kirkus called the book “an epic time-travel fantasy about how stories from the past can shape our future.”
The best novella award went to Amal El-Mohtar for The River Has Roots, while H.H. Pak won in the best novelette category for “Never Eaten Vegetables.”
John Scalzi was honored with the best series prize for his Old Man’s War novels, the most recent of which, The Shattering Peace, received a starred review from Kirkus upon its publication last year. Thomas Ha took home the best short story prize for “In My Country,” and winning the best graphic story or comic prize was A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, Fred Fordham’s adaptation of the classic by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The award for best related work went to Ada Palmer for Inventing the Renaissance. C.B. Lee took home the Lodestar Prize, given to a young adult book, for Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe.
The Hugo Awards were established in 1953. Previous winners include C.J. Cherryh for Downbelow Station and Cyteen; Michael Chabon for The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Robert Jackson Bennett for The Tainted Cup.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
