2024 Hugo Award Winners
The winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer were announced on Sunday, 11 August, 2024, during a formal ceremony at Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures.
3,813 valid final ballots (3,808 electronic and 5 paper) were received and counted from the members of Glasgow 2024. The winners are as follows.
Glasgow 2024 has issued two formal documents alongside the winners list:
- An Administrator’s report, detailing the decisions made by the Hugo Administrator in line with our commitment to transparency.
- Full statistics for the nominating and final ballots
Best Novel
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)
Best Novella
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (Tor, Titan UK)
Best Novelette
“The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2023)
Best Short Story
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, May 2023)
Best Series
Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
Best Graphic Story or Comic
Saga, Vol. 11 written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
Best Related Work
A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Press; Particular Books)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley
and Jonathan Goldstein (Paramount Pictures)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar (Naughty Dog / Sony Pictures)
Best Game or Interactive Work
Baldur’s Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios
Best Editor Short Form
Neil Clarke
Best Editor Long Form
Ruoxi Chen
Best Professional Artist
Rovina Cai
Best Semiprozine
Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
Best Fanzine
Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G. Brown, Vance
Kotrla.
Best Fancast
Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
Best Fan Writer
Paul Weimer
Best Fan Artist
Laya Rose
Lodestar Award for Best YA Book
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)
Xiran Jay Zhao (eligibility extended at request of Dell Magazines)