Memorial Hall Library

2024 Hugo Awards

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
Some desperate glory
by Emily Tesh

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
Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
 
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
Ancillary justice
by Ann Leckie

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
Saga, Vol. 11
by Brian K. Vaughan
 
Best Graphic Story or Comic
 
The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world
A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
 
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
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
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)
 
When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, a survivor takes in a fourteen-year-old girl who may by humanity's last hope.
To shape a dragon's breath
To shape a dragon's breath
by Moniquill Blackgoose
 
Lodestar Award for Best YA Book
 
Revered as a Nampeshiweisit, a person in a unique relationship with a dragon, by her people, 15-year-old Indigenous girl Anequs, at odds with the“approved” way of doing things, is forced by Anglish conquerors to attend a proper dragon school– and if she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.