The 2024 Hugo Award finalists span novels, short fiction, comics, screen works, games, professional creative work and fan publications. The nominees were announced on March 30, 2024, for the 82nd Hugo Awards, with the ceremony scheduled for August 11 at Glasgow Worldcon in Scotland. Here is the reported shortlist, organized by category.
The nominee titles and credits below follow Gizmodo/io9’s March 30, 2024 report. It is a secondary report of the finalists, not the official voting-statistics record.
Fiction: novels and shorter works
Best Novel
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi — Shannon Chakraborty
- The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera
- Some Desperate Glory — Emily Tesh
- Starter Villain — John Scalzi
- Translation State — Ann Leckie
- Witch King — Martha Wells
Best Novella
- “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” — He Xi, translated by Alex Woodend
- Mammoths at the Gates — Nghi Vo
- The Mimicking of Known Successes — Malka Older
- Rose/House — Arkady Martine
- “Seeds of Mercury” — Wang Jinkang, translated by Alex Woodend
- Thornhedge — T. Kingfisher
Best Novelette
- I AM AI — Ai Jiang
- “Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition” — Gu Shi, translated by Emily Jen
- “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” — C.L. Polk
- “On the Fox Roads” — Nghi Vo
- “One Man’s Treasure” — Sarah Pinsker
- “The Year Without Sunshine” — Naomi Kritzer
Best Short Story
- “Answerless Journey” — Han Song, translated by Alex Woodend
- “Better Living Through Algorithms” — Naomi Kritzer
- “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” — P. Djèlí Clark
- “The Mausoleum’s Children” — Aliette de Bodard
- “The Sound of Children Screaming” — Rachael K. Jones
- “Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times” — Baoshu
Best Series
- The Final Architecture — Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Imperial Radch — Ann Leckie
- The Last Binding — Freya Marske
- The Laundry Files — Charles Stross
- October Daye — Seanan McGuire
- The Universe of Xuya — Aliette de Bodard
Young adult, nonfiction and comics
Best YA Book (Lodestar)
- Abeni’s Song — P. Djèlí Clark
- Liberty’s Daughter — Naomi Kritzer
- Promises Stronger than Darkness — Charlie Jane Anders
- The Sinister Booksellers of Bath — Garth Nix
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath — Moniquill Blackgoose
- Unraveller — Frances Hardinge
Best Related Work
- All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays — Niall Harrison
- Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, vols. 2 and 3 — edited by Yang Feng
- A City on Mars — Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
- The Culture: The Drawings — Iain M. Banks
- Discover X — presented by Tina Wong
- A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller — Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan
Best Graphic Story/Comic
- Bea Wolf — Zach Weinersmith and Boulet
- Saga, Vol. 11 — Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Shubeik Lubeik — Deena Mohamed
- The Three Body Problem, Part One — adapted from Liu Cixin
- The Witches of World War II — Paul Cornell and Valeria Burzo
- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons — Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott
Screen works and games
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
- Doctor Who, “The Giggle”
- Loki, “Glorious Purpose”
- The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time”
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Those Old Scientists”
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Subspace Rhapsody”
- Doctor Who, “Wild Blue Yonder”
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
- Barbie
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- Nimona
- Poor Things
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Wandering Earth II
Best Game or Interactive Work
- Alan Wake 2
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Chants of Sennaar
- DREDGE
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Professional and fan awards
The report also lists finalists in these categories: Astounding Award for Best New Writer; Best Fan Artist; Best Fan Writer; Best Semiprozine; Best Fanzine; Best Fancast; Best Editor (Short Form); Best Editor (Long Form); and Best Professional Artist. The category names are included here, but the full names and credited teams are not reproduced in this list.
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For a starting point, choose by format: a standalone novel or shorter fiction, an ongoing series, nonfiction, a comic, a screen title or an interactive work. The category and title list identifies the finalists, but it does not compare their quality, indicate reading order, or establish availability in a particular edition or language.
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