The 2020 Hugo Awards are fast approaching. A favourite annual literary award for the best SFF works and considered the premier award in science fiction. It has been operating since 1955. A good database to see all the winners of the Hugo’s, as well as all other major SFF awards, is at the Science Fiction Awards Database
CoNZealand will hold the event in 2020, which due to the Coronavirus pandemic will only be viewed online from July 29 to August 2.
I’ve been reading some of the recent previous winners of the award in preparation for the upcoming event. The author, N K Jemisin has dominated the awards with her trilogy: The Fifth Season; The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, winning the last three Hugo’s in a row. Prior to that, Mary R Kowal’s novel, The Calculating Stars and Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem took the award.
There’s an interesting bunch this year, so I hope to read all of the 2020 nominations before the award night. The nominations for the major award are:
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Sanders;
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow;
Middle Game by Seanan McGuire;
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley; and
Gideon the Ninth by Tasman Muir.