2020 Hugo and Astounding Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Novella

• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
• In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)

Best Novelette

• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• “Away with the Wolves”, Sarah Gailey (Uncanny 9-10/19)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)

Best Short Story

• “Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/31/19)
• “As the Last I May Know”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com 10/23/19)
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
• “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, Rivers Solomon (Tor.com 7/24/19)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)

Best Series

• Winternight, Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Luna, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• InCryptid, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Planetfall, Emma Newman (Ace; Gollancz)
• The Wormwood Trilogy, Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Related Work

• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
• “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, Jeannette Ng (Dublin 2019 — An Irish Worldcon)
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O’Meara (Hanover Square)
• Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood, J. Michael Straczynski (Harper Voyager US)
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Stephanie Hans (Image)
• The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: “Okay”, Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie & Matt Wilson (Image Comics)
• Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)
• LaGuardia, Nnedi Okorafor, illustrated by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
• Paper Girls, Volume 6, Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson (Image)
• Mooncakes, Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker (Oni Press; Lion Forge)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Avengers: Endgame
• Captain Marvel
• Good Omens
• Russian Doll, Season One
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Us

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Doctor Who: “Resolution”
• The Expanse: “Cibola Burn”
• The Good Place: “The Answer”
• The Mandalorian: “Redemption”
• Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”
• Watchmen: “This Extraordinary Being”

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

• Sheila Gilbert
• Brit Hvide
• Diana M. Pho
• Devi Pillai
• Miriam Weinberg
• Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• John Picacio
• Yuko Shimizu
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Escape Pod
• Fireside
• FIYAH
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny

Best Fanzine

• The Book Smugglers
• Galactic Journey
• Journey Planet
• nerds of a feather, flock together
• Quick Sip Reviews
• The Rec Center

Best Fancast

• Be the Serpent
• The Coode Street Podcast
• Galactic Suburbia
• Our Opinions Are Correct
• Claire Rousseau’s YouTube channel
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show

Best Fan Writer

• Cora Buhlert
• James Davis Nicoll
• Alasdair Stuart
• Bogi Takács
• Paul Weimer
• Adam Whitehead

Best Fan Artist

• Iain Clark
• Sara Felix
• Grace P. Fong
• Meg Frank
• Ariela Housman
• Elise Matthesen

Lodestar for Best Young Adult Book (Not a Hugo)

• The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
• Deeplight, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
• Minor Mage, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney/Hyperion)
• Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (Not a Hugo)

• Sam Hawke*
• R.F. Kuang*
• Jenn Lyons
• Nibedita Sen*
• Tasha Suri*
• Emily Tesh

*Second year of eligibility