Earlier this month, the 2024 Hugo Awards for excellence in science fiction and fantasy were announced. You can get some of these great works here at MHL, and you can see the full list of winners (which includes some categories we can’t stock at MHL like Best Editor and Best Fan Writer) on the Hugo Awards website here.
Some desperate glory
Best Novel
One of the best warriors of her generation, Kyr, when Command relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, takes humanity's revenge into her own hands, escaping into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
Thornhedge
Best Novella
Returning to the human world to offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child, a mission that goes completely sideways, kind-hearted Toadling, centuries later, when a gentle knight arrives to break the curse, will do anything to uphold it.
Ancillary justice
Best Series: Imperial Radch
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Saga, Vol. 11
Best Graphic Story or Comic
A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Best Related Work
The authors of the best-selling popular science book Soonish discuss the future of space settlements, explore what would be needed to have space kids, build space farms and create nations, ultimately questioning whether or not it's actually a good idea.
Dungeons & dragons
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Follows a group of thieves whose heist to retrieve a lost relic goes dangerously awry.
Last of us
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar (Naughty Dog / Sony Pictures)
To shape a dragon's breath
Lodestar Award for Best YA Book