Over the weekend, WorldCon announced the Hugo Award Winners in Chengdu, China, this year’s host city for one of the oldest genre conventions in the world.
This year was notable because Chengdu WorldCon announced that the nominations and voting included “the largest-ever participation of non-English speaking members in the history of the Hugo Awards.” Additionally, Chinese authors and artists came away with some hardware. “Sci-fi writer Hai Ya [won] the Best Novelette for his The Space-Time Painter; sci-fi artist Zhao Enzhe [received] the Best Professional Artist award; and Zero Gravity Newspaper [won] the Best Fanzine award,” according to a Chengdu WorldCon announcement.
While fan-favorite cozy fantasy novel Legends & Lattes lost Best Novel to T. Kingfisher’s excellent horror-fantasy Nettle & Bone, Legends & Lattes author Travis Baldtree won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Everything Everywhere All at Once snagged film’s top honor, and The Expanse’s finale episode did the same for televsion, beating out both nominated Andor episodes among others.
Some other great standouts include short fiction editor Neil Clarke, who has kept Clarkesworld magazine running despite getting swamped by AI-generated submissions earlier this year.
Check out the winners, highlighted in bold text, from this year’s awards ceremony below.
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Source: Gizmodo