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The Hugo Awards announced its 2019 finalists this morning. Voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and sponsored by the World Science Fiction Society, the Hugo Awards are “science fiction’s most prestigious award.”
(If you can’t get enough science fiction, check out two essays from our archives that feature a few of the finalists below.)
Below is a selection of the 2019 finalists. And here’s the full list.
Best Novel
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
- Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
- Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
- Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
- The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
- Abbott by Saladin Ahmed (writing); Sami Kivelä (artwork); Jason Wordie (coloring); Jim Campbell (lettering)
- Black Panther: Long Live the King by Nnedi Okorafor and Aaron Covington (writing); André Lima Araújo, Mario Del Pennino, and Tana Ford (artwork)
- Monstress, Volume 3: Haven by Marjorie Liu (writing); Sana Takeda (artwork)
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
- Paper Girls, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan (writing); Cliff Chiang (artwork); Matt Wilson (coloring); Jared K. Fletcher (lettering)
- Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan (writing); Fiona Staples (artwork)
The awards will be announced at Worldcon 76 on August 18, 2019.