Hugo Award for Best Series

Hugo Award for Best Series
Awarded for The best science fiction or fantasy series of at least 3 volumes and 240,000 words, with a work published in the prior calendar year
Presented by World Science Fiction Society
First awarded 2017
Most recent winner Lois McMaster Bujold (World of the Five Gods)
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The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award.[1] It has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".[2][3] The Hugo Award for Best Series is given each year for series of science fiction or fantasy stories published consisting of at least 3 works totaling at least 240,000 words, with at least one work released or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The Hugo Award for Best Series has been awarded annually since 2017. It was started then as a one-time special Hugo Award in advance of a vote to make it a permanent category, and was ratified as such by members of the World Science Fiction Society that year.[4]

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees. The series on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of series that can be nominated. Initial nominations of five works each are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.[5][6] Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.[1][7]

In the 2 nomination years, 12 series by 10 authors have been nominated. The first year was won by Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, begun in 1986 and consisting of over 20 novels and short stories. Bujold also won the second year for her World of the Five Gods series, begun in 2000 and consisting of 3 books and 6 novellas; she and Seanan McGuire are the only authors with multiple nominations, with McGuire nominated for The October Daye Books and the InCryptid series.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the story was first published. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominated works.

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year Author Series Publisher(s) Ref.
2017 Lois McMaster Bujold*The Vorkosigan SagaBaen Books [4]
Max GladstoneThe Craft SequenceTor Books [4]
James S. A. CoreyThe ExpanseOrbit Books [4]
Seanan McGuireThe October Daye BooksDAW Books / Corsair Books [4]
Ben AaronovitchThe Peter Grant / Rivers of London seriesVictor Gollancz Ltd / Del Rey Books / DAW Books / Subterranean Press [4]
Naomi NovikThe Temeraire seriesDel Rey Books / Harper Voyager UK [4]
2018 Lois McMaster Bujold*World of the Five GodsHarper Voyager / Spectrum Literary Agency [8]
Martha WellsThe Books of the RaksuraNight Shade Books [8]
Robert Jackson BennettThe Divine CitiesBroadway Books [8]
Seanan McGuireInCryptidDAW Books [8]
Marie BrennanThe Memoirs of Lady TrentTor Books / Titan Books [8]
Brandon SandersonThe Stormlight ArchiveTor Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd [8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "The Locus index to SF Awards: About the Hugo Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  2. ↑ Jordison, Sam (2008-08-07). "An International Contest We Can Win". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  3. ↑ Cleaver, Emily (2010-04-20). "Hugo Awards Announced". Litro Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2017 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  5. ↑ "The Hugo Awards: Introduction". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
  6. ↑ "Worldcon 75: 2017 Hugo report #2" (PDF). Worldcon 75. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  7. ↑ "World Science Fiction Society / Worldcon". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2018 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
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