The Hugo Award

An annual award for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year, voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention.

2026 (Best Novel)

Awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of forty thousand (40,000) words or more.

Winner - announced 2026-08-30

• The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

Finalist - announced 2026-04-21

• A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
• Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
• The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
• The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

2026 (Best Novelette)

Awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) words.

Winner - announced 2026-08-30

• Never Eaten Vegetables by H.H. Pak

Finalist - announced 2026-04-21

• Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch
• Never Eaten Vegetables by H.H. Pak
• Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells
• The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For by Cameron Reed
• The Millay Illusion by Sarah Pinsker
• When He Calls Your Name by Catherynne M. Valente

2026 (Best Novella)

Awarded for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) words.

Winner - announced 2026-08-30

• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Finalist - announced 2026-04-21

• Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
• Cinder House by Freya Marske
• Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Summer War by Naomi Novik
• What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

2026 (Best Series)

Awarded for multi-installment works appearing in an least three installments with a total of at least 240,000 words. Installments of a series can be of any length; that is, installments of a series do not have to be novel-length works. A qualifying installment must be published in the qualifying year. Once a Series wins the Award, it is no longer eligible even if further installments appear in the series. If a Series is a finalist and does not win, it is no longer eligible until at least two more installments consisting of at least 240,000 words total appear in subsequent years.

Winner - announced 2026-08-30

• Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Finalist - announced 2026-04-21

• Emily Wilde by Heather Fawcett
• October Daye by Seanan McGuire
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• The Chronicles of Osreth by Katherine Addison
• The Craft Wars by Max Gladstone
• White Space by Elizabeth Bear

2026 (Best Short Story)

Awarded for science fiction or fantasy story of less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) words.

Winner - announced 2026-08-30

• In My Country by Thomas Ha

Finalist - announced 2026-04-21

• 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by Samantha Mills
• In My Country by Thomas Ha
• Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by Effie Seiberg
• Missing Helen by Tia Tashiro
• Six People to Revise You by J.R. Dawson
• Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim

2002 (Best Novel)

Winner records migrated from author timelines; this is not a complete list of nominations.

Winner

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

1970 (Best Novel)

Winner records migrated from author timelines; this is not a complete list of nominations.

Winner

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin