2020 Neukom Awards Winners
Winners for the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Speculative Fiction have been announced:
Open Category
- WINNER: Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf)
- The Divers’ Game, Jesse Ball (Ecco)
- Naamah, Sarah Blake (Riverhead)
- And Go Like This, John Crowley (Small Beer)
- The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc)
- Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores (MCD x FSG Originals)
- Zero Bomb, M.T. Hill (Titan Books)
- War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Pigs, Johanna Stoberock (Red Hen)
- Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
Debut Category
- WINNER: The Lesson, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
- The Crying Machine, Greg Chivers (HarperVoyager)
- The Imaginary Corpse, Tyler Hayes (Angry Robot)
- Cold Storage, David Koepp (Ecco)
- Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
- We Set the Dark on Fire, Tehlor Kay Mejia (Katherine Tegen)
- Today I Am Carey, Martin L. Shoemaker (Baen)
Additionally, The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager (Dzanc) received special recognition in the Open Category, and We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Katherine Tegen) received special recognition in the Debut Category.
The award was established by the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College. Winners were judged by speculative fiction writer Sam J. Miller and will each receive a $5,000 honorarium.
For more information, see the Neukom Institute website.
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