Hugos 2024: Some Desperate Glory wins Best Novel

The Hugo Awards celebrate the year’s standout science fiction and fantasy, voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention. They’re a snapshot of the community’s enthusiasms across forms—from short stories to sprawling series.

Winners by category (2024):

• Best Novel — Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. Grief-fueled space opera that wrestles with indoctrination, choice, and found purpose.
• Best Novella — Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher. A tender, thorny inversion of a fairy tale about guardianship and gentleness.
• Best Novelette — The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer. Practical magic meets civic resilience in a wry climate parable.
• Best Short Story — Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer. Sharply observed near-future satire about optimization and the messy human remainder.
• Best Series — Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie. Identity, empire, and etiquette across a landmark space opera trilogy and beyond.
• Best Graphic Story — Saga, Vol. 11 by Brian K. Vaughan. A long-running epic balancing family, war, and gallows humor.
• Best YA Book — To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Dragon school meets colonial critique with heart and grit.

Browse the full year: Hugo winners in 2024. Compare with other prizes via the faceted browse.