Many Book Riot favorites appear on the final ballot, narrowed down from 27,033 nominations from 1,584 people. A selection of the finalists is below.
Best Novel
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Middlegame by Seanan McGuire The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Alix is also nominated for Best Short Story for “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, which was one of my favorite stories last year)
Best Novella
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” from Exhalation by Ted Chiang The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Best Series
(Links go to either the first book in the series or to a box set, when available.)
The Expanse by James S. A. Corey InCryptid by Seanan McGuire Luna by Ian McDonald Planetfall by Emma Newman Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden The Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson
Best Graphic Story or Comic
Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles LaGuardia written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, letters by Joamette Gil Paper Girls, Volume 6 written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: Okay by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cowles
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer Deeplight by Frances Hardinge Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher Riverland by Fran Wilde The Wicked King by Holly Black
Astounding Award for the Best New Science Fiction Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines
This is the award previously known as the Campbell. If you have not watched/listened to/read a transcript of Jeanette Ng’s speech when she won the award last year, you absolutely should. (Holy Hera, she wrote it on her phone while sitting in the audience!)
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)
The full list of finalists is at Tor.com. More on the Hugo Awards: The 2019 Hugo Award Winners Why the John W. Campbell award was renamed The Astounding Award
