Au fost anunțați finaliștii premiilor Hugo și Astounding, 2020

Finaliștii premiilor Hugo și Astounding (cel mai bun scriitor debutant) au fost anunțați pentru CoNZealand, al 78-lea Worldcon, ce va avea loc în Wellington, Noua Zeelandă, 29 iulie – 2 august 2020.

Cel mai bun roman

• 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)

Cea mai bună nuvelă

• 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)

Cea mai bună nuveletă

• 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)

Cea mai bună povestire

• 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)

Cea mai bună serie

• 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)

Cea mai bună lucrare conexă (lucrări non-fiction)

• 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, produced and directed by Arwen Curry

Cel mai bun volum grafic

• 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)

Cea mai bună dramatizare, lung metraj

• Avengers: Endgame, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, screenplay by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios/Animal Logic (Australia))
• Good Omens, written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Douglas McKinnon (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios/Narrativia/The Blank Corporation)
• Russian Doll (Season One), created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, directed by Leslye Headland, Jamie Babbit and Natasha Lyonne (3 Arts Entertainment/Jax Media/Netflix/Paper Kite Productions/Universal Television)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, screenplay by Chris Terrio and J.J. Abrams, directed by J.J. Abrams (Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm/Bad Robot)
• Us, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions/Universal Pictures)

Cea mai bună dramatizare, scurt metraj

• The Good Place: „The Answer”, written by Daniel Schofield, directed by Valeria Migliassi Collins (Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television)
• The Expanse: „Cibola Burn”, written by Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck and Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Amazon Prime Video)
• Watchmen: „A God Walks into Abar”, written by Jeff Jensen and Damon Lindelof, directed by Nicole Kassell (HBO)
• The Mandalorian: “Redemption”, written by Jon Favreau, directed by Taika Waititi (Disney+)
• Doctor Who: „Resolution”, written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Wayne Yip (BBC)
• Watchmen: „This Extraordinary Being”, written by Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, directed by Stephen Williams (HBO)

Cel mai bun editor profesionist, forma scurtă (antologii, colecții sau reviste)

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

Cel mai bun editor profesionist, forma lungă (nuvele)

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

Cel mai bun artist profesionist

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

Cel mai bun semiprozine (revistă semiprofesionistă)

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

Cel mai bun fanzine (revistă neprofesionistă, a fanilor)

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

Cel mai bun fancast (înregistrări, canal audio sau video neprofesionist)

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

Cel mai bun fan writer (scriitor care publică în fanzine sau semiprozine, adică fără să fie plătit)

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

Cel mai bun fan artist (artist care publică în fanzine sau semiprozine, adică fără să fie plătit)

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

Cel mai bun volum Lodestar pentru tineri (nu este un premiu Hugo, Lodestar = Steaua polară)

• 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)

Premiul Astounding pentru debut (nu este un premiu Hugo)

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

*Al doilea an de eligibilitate

Premiul Hugo (engleză Hugo Award) este un premiu decernat anual de către The World Science Fiction Society celor mai bune lucrări de science-fiction sau fantasy de limbă engleză, precum și altor categorii, cum sunt fanzinele sau producțiile cinematografice apărute în anul precedent. Numărul de categorii la care se acordă premiul a evoluat de-a lungul timpului, pe măsura diversificării domeniilor science-fiction. Laureații sunt aleși pe baza voturilor membrilor Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention), iar premiul se decernează în cadrul convențiilor anuale Worldcon. Numele premiului este un omagiu adus lui Hugo Gernsback, fondatorul celebrei reviste americane de science-fiction, Amazing Stories (1926).

Uneori Premiile Hugo se decernează retrospectiv, fiind cunoscute sub denumirea de Retro-Hugo. Aceste premii retrospective se decernează în cadrul unei Convenții Worldcon ce are loc la 50, 75 sau 100 de ani după o Convenție care nu a acordat premiul. Odată atribuite, nu se mai pot acorda alte premii pentru anul în cauză.

Categoriile în care se acordă premiul: roman, nuvelă, povestire, carte non-ficțiune, prezentare dramatică, editor și artist profesional, semi-proză, fanzin, scriitor fan, artist fan.

Statueta Premiului Hugo a fost concepută de un fan science-fiction, Benedict Jablonski, care s-a inspirat după ornamentul în formă de rachetă de pe capota unui Oldsmobile 88. Soclul statuetei a fost conceput de Deb Koshiba.

(sursa: Wikipedia.org)