For the first time in eighty years of global science fiction conventions, Worldcon is held in China, the second time in Asia after Nippon in Japan in 2007. It should be emphasized that in recent years Worldcon has traveled much more frequently than in the past, when it rarely left the United States: in the last ten years it has traveled outside the American continent five times. Is.
The Hugo Awards are one of the main attractions of Worldcon. The finalists were announced yesterday, slightly behind the deadline set by the organizers.
hugo award finalists 2023
Novel
- Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, daughter of doctor moreau
- John Scalzi, Kaiju Preservation Society
- travis baldry, Legends and Lattes
- Tamsin Muir, nonna ninth
- T. Kingfisher, nettle and bone
- Mary Robinette Koval the spare man
short novel
- CL Polk, even though i knew the end
- Naghi that, in the river plains
- Alix E. Harrow, repairing a mirror
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, ogres
- T. Kingfisher, what moves the dead
- Seann McGuire, Where do drowned girls go?
long story
- Catherine M. Valente, difference between love and time
- wole pond, a dream of electric moms
- John Chu, If You Find Yourself Talking to God, Address God Informally
- SL Huang, Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in Digital Darkness
- is yes space-time painter
- Mary Vibert, we built this city
Story
- John Wiswell, DIY,
- Jiang Bo, razor’s edge
- Samantha Mills, rabbit test
- rain king, Resurrection
- lu ban, white rock
- queen kanyu wang, Zurong on Mars
series
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, children of time series
- Robert Jackson Bennett, Founding Trilogy
- Tamsin Muir, closed tomb
- Seann McGuire, october day
- Ben Aaronovitch, rivers of london
- Naomi Novick, the scolomance
comic book
- Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fiorinillo, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrovsky, Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
- Lyla Sturgess, Drew Johnson, Zid Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel
- Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda monstrous section. 7: Eater
- Kieron Gillen/Dan Mora, Once and Future Volume 4: Monarchy in the UK
- Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Phonographics, Saga, Volume 10
- Tom King, Bilkis Aveli and Matthias Lopes, Supergirl: Women of Tomorrow
behaviour
- Kyle Buchanan, Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
- Lawrence M. Schoen, Buffaloto World Outreach Project
- Yang Feng, Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral History, Volume 1
- SL Huang, ghosts of workshops past
- Wil Wheaton, Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
- Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
movie or tv season
- Avatar: The Way of WaterDirected by James Cameron, screenplay by James Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
- Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverDirected by Ryan Coogler, screenplay by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole
- everything everywhere at onceScreenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert
- NoWritten by Jordan Peele, directed by Jordan Peele
- Separation (Season 1)Directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, written by Dan Eriksson, Anna Ouyang Moench and others
- to be redScreenplay by Julia Cho and Domi Shi, directed by Domi Shi
tv episode
- Endor: One Way OutBeau Willimon, directed by Toby Haynes, written by Tony Gilroy and George Lucas
- Endor: Rix RoadWritten by Tony Gilroy and George Lucas, directed by Benjamin Caron
- Expansion: Ashes of BabylonWritten by Daniel Abraham, Ty Frank, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner
- For All Mankind: Strangers in a Strange LandWritten by Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, directed by Craig Zisk
- She-Hulk: Lawyer at Law: Whose Show Is It?Written by Jessica Gao, Francesca Giles and Jacqueline Giles, directed by Cat Coiro
- Stranger Things: Chapter Four: Dear BillyDirected by Shawn Levy, written by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer and Paul Dichter
story editor
- Scott H. Andrews
- neil clarke
- oghenechovwe donald ekpeki
- sherry renee thomas
- Xu Wang
- fengyang
novel editor
- Ruoxi Chen
- lindsey hall
- Lee Harris
- sara peed
- Huanyan
- haijun yao
artist
- will be punished
- kuri huang
- paul levine
- alyssa winans
- xian zhang
- enzhe zhao
semi-professional magazine
- escape pod, edited by Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes; Assistants Benjamin C. Kinney and Premi Mohamed, Presented by Tina Connolly, Produced by Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht
- fiyahby FIYAH Team
- KhureoEdited by Team Khoreo
- podcast, Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor R. Edited by Wood; assistant editor Sophia Barker; Presented by Matt Dowie; Audio Production by Peter Adrian Behravesh, Devin Martin and Eric Valdes
- strange horizonBy The Strange Horizons Editorial Team
- supernatural magazine, editors and curators Lynn M. Thomas and Michael Damien Thomas; poetry curator Chimedum Ohagbu; Mount Lynn Administration; nonfiction curator Meg Allison; Podcast producers Erica Ensign and Steven Shapansky.
fanzines
- Chinese Academic SF Expressby latsepp and tianluo_qi
- galactic travelby Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammy Bozich, Erica Frank, Arrel Lucas and Mark Yoon
- travel planetBy Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Oi, Arthur Liu, Jean Martin, Erin Underwood, Steven H. Silver, Padraig O. Melloy, and others.
- nerd of a featherby Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimar, Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Cotrella, Gee Brown
- The Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blogby Olav Roken and Amanda Wakaruk
- zero gravity newsletterby Riverflow and Ling Shizhen
fancast
- Coode Street PodcastJonathan Strahan and Gary K. Presented by Wolfe, Produced by Jonathan Strahan
- Hugo, girl!by Haley Zapple, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson and Kevin Anderson
- hugos thereby Seth Heasley
- kalanadiCreated and Presented by Rachael
- octhorpeby John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty
- world building for masochistsby Cass Morris, Rowena Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca
amateur writer
- Chris M. Barkley
- bitter gourd
- Arthur Liu
- River flow
- jason sanford
- orgen westin
amateur artist
- Ian Clarke
- richard man
- Laya Rose
- Alison Scott
- spain sheriff
- orion smith
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (Presented by the World Science Fiction Society)
- Ndi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Ensibidi Scripts)
- tracy deon, bloody
- charlie jane anders, bigger dreams than heartbreak
- Naomi Novick, Golden Enclave
- Rachel Hartman, in the wake of snakes
- Catherine M. Valente, Osmo Unknown and Eightpenny Woods
Surprise Award for Best New Author (Presented by Dell Magazines)
- travis baldry
- Naseem Yemenia
- Isabel J. Kim
- majia liu
- averina maxwell
- weimu shin