Durante il CoNZealand 2020, in Nuova Zelanda sono stati annunciati i vincitori del 78° Annual Achievement Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, meglio conosciuto come Hugo Award.
Il premio, intitolato a Hugo Gernsback, fondatore della rivista Amazing Stories, la prima rivista di fantascienza del mondo edita nel 1926, è stato conferito agli autori più apprezzati circa i temi di di fantascienza e fantasy.
Dopo la fine della 78° edizione degli Hugo Award sono stati rivelati i nomi degli autori più influenti dello stile fantasy e fantascientifico del 2020
Come di consueto per gli eventi svoltisi in questo periodo, anche l’edizione annuale per l’assegnazione dell’ambito Hugo Award agli autori di opere fantasy e fantascientifiche si è svolto online, nella sicurezza della propria casa. L’evento è stato ospitato da George RR Martin che ha annunciato i talentuosi vincitori.
Tra i premiati possiamo trovare Amal El-Mohtar e Max Gladstone, i quali hanno portato a casa il primo premio per la miglio novella con “This Is How You Lose the Time War” che ha spopolato anche ai Nebula Awards e Arkady Martine, che ha vinto il premio per il miglior romanzo con A Memory Called Empire.
I vincitori delle categorie
Miglior romanzo
- The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
- Middlegame, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
Miglior novella
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))
- The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Gallery)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
- In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
Miglior novelette
- “The Archronology of Love”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, April 2019)
- “Away With the Wolves”, by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019)
- Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))
- “For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, 10 July 2019)
- “Omphalos”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))
Miglior racconto
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)
- “As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)
- “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)
- “Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)
Miglior serie
- The Expanse, by James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- InCryptid, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
- Luna, by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- Planetfall series, by Emma Newman (Ace; Gollancz)
- Winternight Trilogy, by Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
- The Wormwood Trilogy, by Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Miglior lavoro correlato
- Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood, by J. Michael Straczynski (Harper Voyager US)
- Joanna Russ, by 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, by Mallory O’Meara (Hanover Square)
- The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, by Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
- “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, by Jeannette Ng
- Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, produced and directed by Arwen Curry
Miglior graphic story o fumetto
- Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)
- LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books; Dark Horse)
- Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image)
- Mooncakes, by 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, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image)
- The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: “Okay”, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)
Migliore presentazione drammatica, forma lunga
- 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)
Migliore presentazione drammatica, forma breve
- 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)
Miglior redattore, forma abbreviata
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- C.C. Finlay
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheila Williams
Miglior montatore, forma lunga
- Sheila E. Gilbert
- Brit Hvide
- Diana M. Pho
- Devi Pillai
- Miriam Weinberg
- Navah Wolfe
Miglior artista professionista
- Tommy Arnold
- Rovina Cai
- Galen Dara
- John Picacio
- Yuko Shimizu
- Alyssa Winans
Migliore Zine Semi-Pro
- 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 & 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
La migliore 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
Miglior 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
Miglior scrittore fan
- Cora Buhlert
- James Davis Nicoll
- Alasdair Stuart
- Bogi Takács
- Paul Weimer
- Adam Whitehead
Miglior artista fan
- Iain Clark
- Sara Felix
- Grace P. Fong
- Meg Frank
- Ariela Housman
- Elise Matthesen
Premio Lodestar per il miglior libro per giovani adulti (non un 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)
Premio straordinario per il miglior nuovo scrittore, sponsorizzato da Dell Magazines (non un 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)
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