2020 Nebula Awards® - Winners

The 2020 Nebula Awards® have been announced by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.

Winners in green.

Best Novel

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury US and Bloomsbury UK
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, published by Orbit US and Orbit UK
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, published by Del Rey and Jo Fletcher
• The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk, published by Erewhon
• Back Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, published by Saga and Solaris
• Network Effect by Martha Wells, published by Tordotcom

Best Novella

• “Tower of Mud and Straw” by Yaroslav Barsukov, published by Metaphorosis
• Finna” by Nino Cipri, published by Tordotcom
• “Ring Shout” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tordotcom
• “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, published by Aurelia Leo
• “The Four Profound Weaves” by R.B. Lemberg, published by Tachyon
• “Riot Baby” by Tochi Onyebuchi, published by Tordotcom

Best Novelette

• “Stepsister” by Leah Cypess, published by F&SF
• “The Pill” by Meg Ellison, published by PM Press
• “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Uncanny
• “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Tor.com
• “Where You Linger” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, published by Uncanny
• “Shadow Prisons” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press

Best Short Story

• “The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sanford, published by Asimov’s
• “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math” by Aimee Picchi, published by Daily Science Fiction
• “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, published by Solaris
• “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson, published by Uncanny
• “My Country is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny
• “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell, published by Diabolical Plots

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko, published by Amulet
• A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn Reese, published by Holt
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher, published by Argyll
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, published by Levine Querido
• Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar, published by HarperTeen

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• The Mandalorian: “The Tragedy” by Jon Favreau, published by Disney+ and Golem Creations/Lucasfilm 
• Lovecraft Country, Season 1 by Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Kevin Lau, Wes Taylor, Ihuoma Ofordire, Jonathan I. Kidd, and Sonya Winton-Odamtten, published by HBO Max and Bad Robot/Monkeypaw Productions/Warner Bros.Television
• Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation on One Harley Quinn by Christina Hodson, published by Warner Bros. Television and Clubhouse Pictures/DC Entertainment/Kroll & Co. Entertainment/LuckyChap Entertainment
• The Expanse: “Gaugamela” by Dan Nowak, published by Amazon Prime and Alcon Entertainment/Alcon Television Group/Amazon Studios/Hivemind/Just So
• The Old Guard by Greg Rucka, published by Netflix and Skydance Media/Denver and Delilah Productions/Marc Evans Productions
• The Good Place: “Whenever You’re Ready” by Michael Schur, published by NBC and Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal

Best Game Writing

• Scents & Semiosis by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, and Yoon Ha Lee, published by Self
• The Luminous Underground by Phoebe Barton, published by Choice of Games
• Blaseball by Stephen Bell, Joel Clark, and Sam Rosenthal, published by The Game Band
• Kentucky Route Zero by Jake Elliott, published by Cardboard Computer
• Spiritfarer by Nicolas Guérin, Maxime Monast, and Alex Tommi-Morin, published by Thunder Lotus Games
• Hades by Greg Kasavin, published by Supergiant

Other Awards

Damon Knight Grand Master Award

Nalo Hopkinson

Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

Jarvis Sheffield
Rachel Caine
Ben Bova

Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

Connie Willis

The 2020 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the Winners for the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards®. The winners were announced at StokerCon^™ 2021 which was held virtually from May 20th to 23rd.

 

The 2020 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners

Winners in green.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Jones, Stephen Graham - The Only Good Indians (Gallery/Saga Press)
• Katsu, Alma - The Deep (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Keisling, Todd - Devil’s Creek (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
• Malerman, Josh - Malorie (Del Rey)
• Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Mexican Gothic (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Hall, Polly - The Taxidermist’s Lover (CamCat Publishing, LLC)
• Harrison, Rachel - The Return (Berkley)
• Jeffery, Ross - Tome (The Writing Collective)
• Knight, EV - The Fourth Whore (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Reed Petty, Kate - True Story (Viking)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Archer, Steven (author/artist) - The Masque of the Red Death (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Brody, Jennifer (author) and Rivera, Jules (artist) - Spectre Deep 6 (Turner)
• Douek, Rich (author) and Cormack, Alex (artist) - Road of Bones (IDW Publishing)
• Holder, Nancy (author), Di Francia, Chiara (artist), and Woo, Amelia (artist) - Mary Shelley Presents (Kymera Press)
• Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) - Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Niles, Steve (author), Simeone, Salvatore (author), and Kudranski, Szymon (artist) - Lonesome Days, Savage Nights (TKO Studios)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Cesare, Adam - Clown in a Cornfield (HarperTeen)
• Kraus, Daniel - Bent Heavens (Henry Holt and Company/Macmillan)
• Snyman, Monique - The Bone Carver (Vesuvian Books)
• Thomas, Aiden - Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads/Macmillan)
• Waters, Erica - Ghost Wood Song (HarperTeen)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Iglesias, Gabino - Beyond the Reef (Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press)
• Jones, Stephen Graham - Night of the Mannequins (Tor.com)
• Kiste, Gwendolyn - The Invention of Ghosts (Nightscape Press)
• Landry, Jess - I Will Find You, Even in the Dark (Dim Shores Presents Volume 1) (Dim Shores)
• Pinsker, Sarah - Two Truths and a Lie (Tor.com)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Arcuri, Meghan - “Am I Missing the Sunlight?” (Borderlands 7) (Borderlands Press)
• Fawver, Kurt - “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2020 (Issue 98)
• Malerman, Josh - “One Last Transformation” (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors) (Written Backwards)
• O’Quinn, Cindy - “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road” (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil) (Down and Out Books)
• Ward, Kyla Lee - “Should Fire Remember the Fuel?” (Oz is Burning) (B Cubed Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Koja, Kathe - Velocities: Stories (Meerkat Press)
• Langan, John - Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies (Word Horde)
• Lillie, Patricia - The Cuckoo Girls (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Murray, Lee - Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well)
• Taborska, Anna - Bloody Britain (Shadow Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Amaris, Scarlett and Stanley, Richard - Color Out of Space (SpectreVision)
• Green, Misha - Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 1: “Sundown” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
• Green, Misha and Ofordire, Ihuoma - Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 8: “Jig-a-Bobo” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
• LaManna, Angela - The Haunting of Bly Manor, Season 1, Episode 5: “The Altar of the Dead” (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)
• Whannell, Leigh - The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Manzetti, Alessandro - Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing))
• McHugh, Jessica - A Complex Accident of Life (Apokrupha)
• Pelayo, Cynthia - Into the Forest and All the Way Through (Burial Day Books)
• Sng, Christina - A Collection of Dreamscapes (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Tantlinger, Sara - Cradleland of Parasites (Rooster Republic Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Bailey, Michael and Murano, Doug - Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors (Written Backwards)
• Murray, Lee and Flynn, Geneve - Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Kolesnik, Samantha - Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror (Grindhouse Press)
• Tantlinger, Sara - Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (Rooster Republic Press)
• Yardley, Mercedes M. - Arterial Bloom (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Florence, Kelly and Hafdahl, Meg - The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films (Skyhorse)
• Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra - 1000 Women in Horror (BearManor Media)
• Keene, Brian - End of the Road (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Peirse, Alison - Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre (Rutgers University Press)
• Waggoner, Tim - Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Wetmore, Jr. Kevin J. - The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• Jackson Joseph, Rhonda - “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood” (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation) (McFarland)
• Pelayo, Cynthia - “I Need to Believe” (Southwest Review Volume 105.3)
• Robinson, Kelly - “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein” (Rue Morgue Magazine, June 2020)
• Sng, Christina - “Final Girl: A Life in Horror” (Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2020)
• Waggoner, Tim - “Speaking of Horror” (The Writer)

 

The 2020 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the Final Ballot for the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards®. The winners will be announced at StokerCon^™ 2021 which is being held virtually from May 20th to 23rd.

 

The 2020 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Jones, Stephen Graham - The Only Good Indians (Gallery/Saga Press)
• Katsu, Alma - The Deep (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Keisling, Todd - Devil’s Creek (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
• Malerman, Josh - Malorie (Del Rey)
• Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Mexican Gothic (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Hall, Polly - The Taxidermist’s Lover (CamCat Publishing, LLC)
• Harrison, Rachel - The Return (Berkley)
• Jeffery, Ross - Tome (The Writing Collective)
• Knight, EV - The Fourth Whore (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Reed Petty, Kate - True Story (Viking)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Archer, Steven (author/artist) - The Masque of the Red Death (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Brody, Jennifer (author) and Rivera, Jules (artist) - Spectre Deep 6 (Turner)
• Douek, Rich (author) and Cormack, Alex (artist) - Road of Bones (IDW Publishing)
• Holder, Nancy (author), Di Francia, Chiara (artist), and Woo, Amelia (artist) - Mary Shelley Presents (Kymera Press)
• Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) - Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Niles, Steve (author), Simeone, Salvatore (author), and Kudranski, Szymon (artist) - Lonesome Days, Savage Nights (TKO Studios)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Cesare, Adam - Clown in a Cornfield (HarperTeen)
• Kraus, Daniel - Bent Heavens (Henry Holt and Company/Macmillan)
• Snyman, Monique - The Bone Carver (Vesuvian Books)
• Thomas, Aiden - Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads/Macmillan)
• Waters, Erica - Ghost Wood Song (HarperTeen)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Iglesias, Gabino - Beyond the Reef (Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press)
• Jones, Stephen Graham - Night of the Mannequins (Tor.com)
• Kiste, Gwendolyn - The Invention of Ghosts (Nightscape Press)
• Landry, Jess - I Will Find You, Even in the Dark (Dim Shores Presents Volume 1) (Dim Shores)
• Pinsker, Sarah - Two Truths and a Lie (Tor.com)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Arcuri, Meghan - “Am I Missing the Sunlight?” (Borderlands 7) (Borderlands Press)
• Fawver, Kurt - “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2020 (Issue 98)
• Malerman, Josh - “One Last Transformation” (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors) (Written Backwards)
• O’Quinn, Cindy - “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road” (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil) (Down and Out Books)
• Ward, Kyla Lee - “Should Fire Remember the Fuel?” (Oz is Burning) (B Cubed Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Koja, Kathe - Velocities: Stories (Meerkat Press)
• Langan, John - Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies (Word Horde)
• Lillie, Patricia - The Cuckoo Girls (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Murray, Lee - Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well)
• Taborska, Anna - Bloody Britain (Shadow Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Amaris, Scarlett and Stanley, Richard - Color Out of Space (SpectreVision)
• Green, Misha - Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 1: “Sundown” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
• Green, Misha and Ofordire, Ihuoma - Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 8: “Jig-a-Bobo” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
• LaManna, Angela - The Haunting of Bly Manor, Season 1, Episode 5: “The Altar of the Dead” (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)
• Whannell, Leigh - The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Manzetti, Alessandro - Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing))
• McHugh, Jessica - A Complex Accident of Life (Apokrupha)
• Pelayo, Cynthia - Into the Forest and All the Way Through (Burial Day Books)
• Sng, Christina - A Collection of Dreamscapes (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Tantlinger, Sara - Cradleland of Parasites (Rooster Republic Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Bailey, Michael and Murano, Doug - Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors (Written Backwards)
• Murray, Lee and Flynn, Geneve - Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Kolesnik, Samantha - Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror (Grindhouse Press)
• Tantlinger, Sara - Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (Rooster Republic Press)
• Yardley, Mercedes M. - Arterial Bloom (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Florence, Kelly and Hafdahl, Meg - The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films (Skyhorse)
• Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra - 1000 Women in Horror (BearManor Media)
• Keene, Brian - End of the Road (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Peirse, Alison - Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre (Rutgers University Press)
• Waggoner, Tim - Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Wetmore, Jr. Kevin J. - The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• Jackson Joseph, Rhonda - “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood” (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation) (McFarland)
• Pelayo, Cynthia - “I Need to Believe” (Southwest Review Volume 105.3)
• Robinson, Kelly - “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein” (Rue Morgue Magazine, June 2020)
• Sng, Christina - “Final Girl: A Life in Horror” (Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2020)
• Waggoner, Tim - “Speaking of Horror” (The Writer)

2020 Hugo, Lodestar, Astounding, and 1945 Retro-Hugo Awards - Winners

Winners for the Hugo Awards, for the Lodestar for Best Young Adult Book, and for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer have been announced at CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon.Winners of the Retro Hugo Awards for 1945 also have been announced.

Please note the CoNZealand was held virtually due to the pandemic. DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, will be held in Washington, DC, August 25 - August 29, 2021.

Winner in green.

2020 Hugo Awards - Winners

Best Novel

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)

Best Novella

• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador)))
•  The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)

Best Novelette

• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)
• “Away with the Wolves”, Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2019 7-8/19)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))
• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))

Best Short Story

• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons September 9, 2019)
• “As the Last I May Know”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com, October 23, 2019)
• “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Janusry/February 2019) 
• “Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies,  January 2019)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)

Best Series

• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• InCryptid, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Luna, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• Planetfall, Emma Newman (Ace; Gollancz)
• Winternight, Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• The Wormwood Trilogy, Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Related Work

• Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood, J. Michael Straczynski (Harper Voyager US)
• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press (Modern Masters of Science Fiction))
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O’Meara (Hanover Square)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
• “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, Jeannette Ng (Dublin 2019 — An Irish Worldcon)
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, produced and directed by Arwyn Curry

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)
• LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, illustrated by Tana Ford, colors by James Devlin (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
• Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)
• Mooncakes, Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, letters by Joamette Gil (Oni Press; Lion Forge)
• Paper Girls, Volume 6, written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Cliff Chiang, colors by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image)
• The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: Okay, written by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie, colors by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cole (Image Comics)
  

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Avengers: Endgame, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, screenplay by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios/Animal Logic (Australia))
• Good Omens, written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios/Narrativia/The Blank Corporation)
• Russian Doll (Season One), created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, directed by Leslye Headland, Jamie Babbit and Natasha Lyonne (3 Arts Entertainment/Jax Media/Netflix/Paper Kite Productions/Universal Television)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, screenplay by Chris Terrio and J.J. Abrams, directed by J.J. Abrams (Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm/Bad Robot)
• Us, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions/Universal Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Good Place: “The Answer”, written by Daniel Schofield, directed by Valeria Migliassi Collins (Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television)
• The Expanse: “Cibola Burn”, written by Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck and Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Amazon Prime Video)
• Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, written by Jeff Jensen and Damon Lindelof, directed by Nicole Kassell (HBO)
• The Mandalorian: “Redemption”, written by Jon Favreau, directed by Taika Waititi (Disney+)
• Doctor Who: “Resolution”, written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Wayne Yip (BBC)
• Watchmen: “This Extraordinary Being”, written by Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, directed by Stephen Williams (HBO)

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

• Sheila E. Gilbert
• Brit Hvide
• Diana M. Pho
• Devi Pillai
• Miriam Weinberg
• Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• John Picacio
• Yuko Shimizu
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor Scott H. Andrews
• Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya, assistant editor Benjamin C. Kinney, audio producers Adam Pracht and Summer Brooks, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart
• Fireside Magazine, editor Julia Rios, managing editor Elsa Sjunneson, copyeditor Chelle Parker, social coordinator Meg Frank, publisher and art director Pablo Defendini, founding editor Brian White
• FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, executive editor Troy L. Wiggins, editors Eboni Dunbar, Brent Lambert, L.D. Lewis, Danny Lore, Brandon O’Brien and Kaleb Russell
• Strange Horizons, Vanessa Rose Phin, Catherine Krahe, AJ Odasso, Dan Hartland, Joyce Chng, Dante Luiz and the Strange Horizons staff
• Uncanny Magazine, editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, nonfiction/managing editor Michi Trota, managing editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• The Book Smugglers, editors Ana Grilo and Thea James
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus, senior writers Rosemary Benton, Lorelei Marcus and Victoria Silverwolf
• Journey Planet, editors James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Alissa McKersie, Ann Gry, Chuck Serface, John Coxon and Steven H Silver
• nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, and The G
• Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur
• The Rec Center, editors Elizabeth Minkel and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Best Fancast

• Be The Serpent, presented by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske and Jennifer Mace
• Claire Rousseau’s YouTube channel, produced & presented by Claire Rousseau
• The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
• Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, producer Andrew Finch
• Our Opinions Are Correct, presented by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show, presented by Jen Zink and Shaun Duke

Best Fan Writer

• Cora Buhlert
• James Davis Nicoll
• Alasdair Stuart
• Bogi Takács
• Paul Weimer
• Adam Whitehead

Best Fan Artist

• Iain Clark
• Sara Felix
• Grace P. Fong
• Meg Frank
• Ariela Housman
• Elise Matthesen

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (Not a Hugo)

• Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Deeplight, by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
• Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney/Hyperion)
• Minor Mage, by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Riverland, by Fran Wilde (Amulet)
• The Wicked King, by Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer sponsored by Dell Magazine (Not a Hugo)

• Sam Hawke (2nd year of eligibility)
• R.F. Kuang (2nd year of eligibility)
• Jenn Lyons (1st year of eligibility)
• Nibedita Sen (2nd year of eligibility)
• Tasha Suri (2nd year of eligibility)
• Emily Tesh (1st year of eligibility)

1945 Retro-Hugo Awards

Best Novel

• The Golden Fleece, by Robert Graves (Cassell)
• Land of Terror, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)
• “Shadow Over Mars” (The Nemesis from Terra), by Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories, Fall 1944)
• Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord, by Olaf Stapledon (Secker & Warburg)
• The Wind on the Moon, by Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
• “The Winged Man”, by A.E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull (Astounding Science Fiction, May-June 1944)

Best Novella

• “The Changeling”, by A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction, April 1944)
• “A God Named Kroo”, by Henry Kuttner (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1944)
• “Intruders from the Stars”, by Ross Rocklynne (Amazing Stories, January 1944)
• “The Jewel of Bas”, by Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories, Spring 1944)
• “Killdozer!”, by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)
• “Trog”, by Murray Leinster (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1944)

Best Novelette

• “Arena”, by Fredric Brown (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1944)
• “The Big and the Little” (“The Merchant Princes”), by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1944)
• “The Children’s Hour”, by Lawrence O’Donnell (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1944)
• “City”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1944)
• “No Woman Born”, by C.L. Moore (Astounding Science Fiction, December 1944)
• “When the Bough Breaks”, by Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)

Best Short Story

• “And the Gods Laughed”, by Fredric Brown (Planet Stories, Spring 1944)
• “Desertion”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)
• “Far Centaurus”, by A. E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction, January 1944)
• “Huddling Place”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, July 1944)
• “I, Rocket”, by Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories, May 1944)
• “The Wedge” (“The Traders”), by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1944)

Best Series

• Captain Future, by Brett Sterling
• The Cthulhu Mythos, by H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others
• Doc Savage, by Kenneth Robeson/Lester Dent
• Jules de Grandin, by Seabury Quinn
• Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Shadow, by Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)

Best Related Work

• Fancyclopedia, by Jack Speer (Forrest J. Ackerman)
• ’42 To ’44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behavior During the Crisis of the World Revolution, by H.G. Wells (Secker & Warburg)
• Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom, by George Gamow (Cambridge University Press)
• Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere, by Willy Ley (Viking Press)
• “The Science-Fiction Field”, by Leigh Brackett (Writer’s Digest, July 1944)
• “The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Suggestions for a Critical Appraisal”, by Fritz Leiber (The Acolyte, Fall 1944)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Buck Rogers: “Hollow Planetoid”, by Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
• Donald Duck: “The Mad Chemist”, by Carl Barks (Dell Comics)
• Flash Gordon: “Battle for Tropica”, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• Flash Gordon: “Triumph in Tropica”, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• The Spirit: “For the Love of Clara Defoe”, by Manly Wade Wellman, Lou Fine and Don Komisarow (Register and Tribune Syndicate)
• Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk”, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (Detective Comics, Inc.)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Canterville Ghost, screenplay by Edwin Harvey Blum from a story by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jules Dassin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
• The Curse of the Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Gunther V. Fritsch and Robert Wise (RKO Radio Pictures)
• Donovan’s Brain, adapted by Robert L. Richards from a story by Curt Siodmak, producer, director and editor William Spier (CBS Radio Network)
• House of Frankenstein, screenplay by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. from a story by Curt Siodmak, directed by Erle C. Kenton (Universal Pictures)
• The Invisible Man’s Revenge, written by Bertram Millhauser, directed by Ford Beebe (Universal Pictures)
• It Happened Tomorrow, screenplay and adaptation by Dudley Nichols and René Clair, directed by René Clair (Arnold Pressburger Films)

Best Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Oscar J. Friend
• Mary Gnaedinger
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• W. Scott Peacock

Best Professional Artist

• Earle Bergey
• Margaret Brundage
• Boris Dolgov
• Matt Fox
• Paul Orban
• William Timmins

Best Fanzine

• The Acolyte, edited by Francis T. Laney and Samuel D. Russell
• Diablerie, edited by Bill Watson
• Futurian War Digest, edited by J. Michael Rosenblum
• Shangri L’Affaires, edited by Charles Burbee
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation, edited by Forrest J. Ackerman and Myrtle R. Douglas
• Le Zombie, edited by Bob Tucker and E.E. Evans

Best Fan Writer

• Fritz Leiber
• Morojo/Myrtle R. Douglas
• J. Michael Rosenblum
• Jack Speer
• Bob Tucker
• Harry Warner, Jr.

2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards - Winners

The Winners of the  2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ). The Sir Julius Vogel Awards recognize excellence in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by New Zealanders. Winners were chosen by SFFANZ members and CoNZealand members and were announced on July 30, 2020


Winners in green.



PROFESSIONAL AWARD WINNERS

Best Novel

• The Blacksmith, Barbara Howe (IFWG Australia)
• The Prince of Secrets, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)
• Solar Federation, S.E. Mulholland (self-published)
• Into the Ashes, Lee Murray (Severed)
• The Dawnhounds, Sascha Stronach (Little Hook)

Best Youth Novel

• Light in My Blood, Jean Gilbert & William Dresden (Rogue House)
• Tyrelia, SR Manssen (Manssen)
• Dragon Rift, Eileen Mueller (Phantom Feather)
• The Clockhill and the Thief, Gareth Ward (Walker Australia)
• Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, Felicity Williams (The Cuba Press)

Best Novella/Novelette

• From a Shadow Grave, Andi C. Buchanan (Paper Road)
• “Hunger’s Truth”, A.J. Fitzwater (Gigantosaurus 4/19)
• We All Fall, Helen Vivienne Fletcher (HVF)
• Would She Be Gone, Melanie Harding-Shaw (self-published)
• “Ventiforms”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 1-2/19)

Best Short Story

• “Work and Income Gothic”, Jack Remiel Cottrell (Flash Frontier 12/19)
• “The Fisher”, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Newsroom 10/5/19)
• “A Shriek Across the Sky”, Casey Lucas (Sponge 5/5/19)
• “Chasing Oumuamua”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 5/19)
• “Losing Face”, Lee Murray (Tales of the Lost, Volume 1: We All Lose Something!)
• “Proof of Concept”, James Rowland (New Myths 12/19)

Best Collected Work

• Beyond the City Limits, Kura Carpenter, ed. (Wicked Unicorn)
• Flash Frontier: Speculative Fiction Issue, A.J. Fitzwater & Tim Jones, eds.
• Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 1, Marie Hodgkinson, ed. (Paper Road)
• Into the Mire, Casey Lucas (self-published)
• Dark Winds Over Wellington, Tabatha Wood (Wild Woods)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover for The Dawnhounds, Pepper Curry
• Illustrations for Tio Tiamu/The Smelly Giant, Laya Rose
• Cover for Dragon Pearl, Vivienne To
• Cover for From a Shadow Grave, Emma Weakley

Best Professional Production/Publication

• Haunt.d, Kezia Tubbs
• Swords: The Webcomic, Matthew Willis

Best Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade, David Bishop (BBC Audio)

FAN AWARD WINNERS

Best Fan Artwork

• “Wandering Wild”, Michelle Kan
• “Aliens vs Geysers”, Kat Oliver
• “Deet”, Laya Rose
• “Wilder Girls”, Laya Rose

Best Fan Production/Publication

• Consequence LARP
• GeyserCon con book
• Phoenixine
• Plant Life

Best Fan Writing

• “Welcome to the Con”, Grace Bridges (GeyserCon con book)
• SITREP, Alex Lindsay (Phoenixine)

SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

Best New Talent

• Melanie Harding-Shaw
• A.J. Lancaster
• Denika Mead
• Stephen Mulholland
• Sascha Stronach

Services to Fandom

• Grace Bridges

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Melanie Harding-Shaw

2020 Locus Awards Winners

The 2020 Locus Awards Winners have been announced. Winners were announced June 27, 2020 at the virtual Locus Awards Weekend.  Winners in green.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
• Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
• The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit US and UK)
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
• A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit US and UK)
• Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit US and UK)
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
• Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• The Iron Dragon’s Mother, Michael Swanwick (Tor)
• Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

HORROR NOVEL

• Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
• Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
• Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
• The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US and UK)
• The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, Kim Newman (Titan US and UK)
• The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit US and UK)
• The Toll, Cherie Priest (Tor)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
• The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
• Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
• Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
• Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
• Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
• Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

NOVELLA

• “A Time to Reap“, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 12/19)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga)
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
• Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• The Ascent to Godhood, JY Neon Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• “Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear (F&SF 9-10/19)
• “For He Can Creep“, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• “A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
• “Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
• “The Justified”, Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
• “Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
• “Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)

SHORT STORY

• “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States)
• “Lest We Forget", Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns)
• “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning“, Ted Chiang (New York Times 5/27/19)
• “Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher (The Mythic Dream)
• “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married“, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review 12/27/19)
• “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear“, Kelly Link (Tin House ’19)
• “Thoughts and Prayers“, Ken Liu (Future Tense 1/26/19)
• “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
• “A Catalog of Storms“, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)

ANTHOLOGY

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
• Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US and UK)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US and UK)
• Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US and UK)
• The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

COLLECTION

• Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf; Picador)
• Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
• Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
• Full Throttle, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• Meet Me in the Future, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
• The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon)
• The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz)
• Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US and UK)
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File 770
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Harper Voyager
• Orbit
• Saga
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tachyon
• Tor

EDITOR

• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams
• Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• Kathleen Jennings
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Desirina Boskovich, ed. (Abrams Image)
• The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction, Damien Broderick (Springer)
• Reading Backwards: Essays and Reviews, 2005-2018, John Crowley (Subterranean)
• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
• Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Markley (University of Illinois Press)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
• Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor (Simon & Schuster/TED)
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O’Meara (Hanover Square)
• HG Wells: A Literary Life, Adam Roberts (Palgrave)

ILLUSTRATED OR ART BOOK

• The Illustrated World of Tolkien, David Day (Thunder Bay; Pyramid)
• Julie Dillon, Daydreamer’s Journey (Julie Dillon)
• Ed Emshwiller, Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller, Jesse Pires, ed. (Anthology Editions)
• Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Donato Giancola, Middle-earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend (Dark Horse)
• Raya Golden, Starport, George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
• Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures, Mark A. Nelson (Dover)
• Tran Nguyen, Ambedo: Tran Nguyen (Flesk)
• Yuko Shimizu, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde (Beehive)
• Bill Sienkiewicz, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells (Beehive)

SPECIAL AWARD 2020: INCLUSIVITY AND REPRESENTATION EDUCATION

• Writing the Other, Nisi Shawl, Cynthia Ward, & K. Tempest Bradford

2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists

The 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists for best short science fiction have been announced.

2020 Sturgeon Award Finalists

• "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex," Tobias S. Buckell. New Suns, ed Nisi Shawl, Solaris Books, March 2019.
• "Omphalos," Ted Chiang. Exhalation, Knopf, May 2019.
• This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Saga Press, July 2019.
• "Give the Family My Love," A.T. Greenblatt. Clarkesworld, February 2019.
• "The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power," Karen Osborne. Uncanny Magazine, March 2019.
• "The Painter of Trees," Suzanne Palmer. Clarkesworld, June 2019.
• "Waterlines," Suzanne Palmer. Asimov's, June 2019.
• "Sisters of the Vast Black," Lina Rather. Tor.com Publishing, October 2019.
• "The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir," Karin Tidbek. Tor.com Publishing, January 2019.
• "New Atlantis," Lavie Tidhar. Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2019.
• "The Archronology of Love," Caroline M. Yoachim. Lightspeed Magazine, April 2019.

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award recognizes the best science fiction short story of each year. It was established in 1987 by James Gunn, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU, and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his partner Jayne Engelhart Tannehill and Sturgeon's children, as an appropriate memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.

Winners will be presented at the Gunn Center Conference and Awards after university policy allows large gatherings of attendees.   --   http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/news.htm

2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Speculative Fiction Shortlist

The shortlist for the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for speculative fiction has been announced.

2020 Neukom Awards Shortlist

Debut Category

• Cold Storage by David Koepp (Ecco, 2019)
• The Crying Machine by Greg Chivers (HarperVoyager, 2019)
• The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes (Angry Robot, 2019)
• Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2019)
• The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing, 2019)
• Today I Am Carey by Martin L. Shoemaker (Baen Books, 2019)
• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Katherine Tegen Books, 2019)

Open Category

• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley, 2019)
• And Go Like This by John Crowley (Small Beer Press, 2019)
• The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager (Dzanc Books, 2019)
• Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2019)
• The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball (Ecco, 2019)
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Knopf, 2019)
• Naamah by Sarah Blake (Riverhead Books, 2020)
• Pigs by Johanna Stoberock (Red Hen Press, 2019)
• Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2019)
• War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill, 2019)
• Zero Bomb by M. T. Hill (Titan Books, 2019)

Awards for both the debut and open book categories will be announced during the summer.

Each award winner will receive a $5,000 honorarium that is typically presented during a Dartmouth-hosted panel discussion about the genre and the winning works.

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is dedicated to supporting and inspiring computational work. The Literary Arts Awards is part of the Neukom Institute’s initiative to explore the ways in which computational ideas impact society.

-- https://sites.dartmouth.edu/neukominstitutelitawards/neukom-institute-literary-arts-awards-announces-2020-book-shortlist/