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Hugo Awards 2024: Complete list of winners

The 2024 Hugo Awards have delivered their verdict, and science fiction and fantasy fans have plenty to celebrate this year. The Hugo Awards, often called the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy literature, recognize the year’s best works as voted by members of the World Science Fiction Convention. This year’s selections showcase remarkable range across genres and formats, from graphic novels to novellas, with some standout names appearing multiple times in the winner’s circle.

Naomi Kritzer made a particularly strong showing, claiming both Best Short Story for “Better Living Through Algorithms” and Best Novelette for “The Year Without Sunshine,” demonstrating her versatility across different lengths of speculative fiction. The 2024 Hugo Awards also honored Emily Tesh’s “Some Desperate Glory” as Best Novel and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series as Best Series, recognizing established voices that continue to shape the genre. Meanwhile, T. Kingfisher’s “Thornhedge” took home Best Novella, and Brian K. Vaughan’s “Saga, Vol. 11” won Best Graphic Story, proving that comics remain an integral part of speculative fiction’s landscape.

What follows is the complete breakdown of this year’s major category winners at the 2024 Hugo Awards, revealing which books and authors the science fiction community chose to celebrate.

Best Graphic Story

Best Novel

Best Novelette

  • The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

Best Novella

Best Series

Best Short Story

  • Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer

Best YA Book