Presented at: Worldcon 75, Helsinki, Finland, August 11, 2017

Host: Karen Lord

Base design: Eeva Jokinen

Awards Administration: Nicholas Whyte, Kathryn Duval, Brent Smart





The 2017 Hugo Awards were presented on the evening of Friday, August 11, 2017 at a ceremony at Worldcon 75, the 75th World Science Fiction Convention.

Due to technical difficulties, the 2017 Hugo Awards ceremony video does not include the first approximately fifteen minutes of the ceremony, including the opening acknowledgments and the presentation of Best Fan Artist. The recording begins with the presentation of Best Fan Writer.

The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards were announced online on April 4th, 2017. The video of the announcement is available on YouTube.

2,464 valid nominating ballots (2,458 electronically-submitted and 6 paper) were received from members of MidAmeriCon II, Worldcon 75, and Worldcon 76. 3,319 valid final ballots (3,315 electronically-submitted and 4 paper) were cast by the members of Worldcon 75.

Under rules adopted at the 2016 Worldcon, the top six nominees made the shortlist of finalists. After the ceremony, the Award Administrators released the following reports showing detailed information about the nominations and voting:

In some categories, the members voted No Award ahead of some of the finalists. When this happened, we have listed No Award as if it was a finalist, with all finalists listed in the order in which they placed. If No Award is not listed, it means that it placed last in that category.

The results of the 2017 Hugo Awards are:

Best Novel

The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books)

All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books)

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris Books)

A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US)

Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)

Death’s End, by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor Books / Head of Zeus)

Best Novella

Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing)

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, by Kij Johnson (Tor.com publishing)

Penric and the Shaman, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency)

The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle (Tor.com publishing)

A Taste of Honey, by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com publishing)

This Census-Taker, by China Miéville (Del Rey / Picador)

Best Novelette

“The Tomato Thief”, by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016)

“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016)

“Touring with the Alien”, by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016)

“The Jewel and Her Lapidary”, by Fran Wilde (Tor.com publishing, May 2016)

“The Art of Space Travel”, by Nina Allan (Tor.com , July 2016)

No Award

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock (self-published)

Best Short Story

“Seasons of Glass and Iron”, by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)

“The City Born Great”, by N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com, September 2016)

“That Game We Played During the War”, by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, March 2016)

“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, March 2016)

“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine, November 2016)

No Award

“An Unimaginable Light”, by John C. Wright (God, Robot, Castalia House)

Best Related Work

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press)

The Geek Feminist Revolution, by Kameron Hurley (Tor Books)

The View From the Cheap Seats, by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow / Harper Collins)

The Women of Harry Potter posts, by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com)

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

Best Graphic Story

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)

Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel)

Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks (Image)

Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image)

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel)

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films)

Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi (Fox 2000 Pictures/Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films/TSG Entertainment)

Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards (Lucasfilm/Allison Shearmur Productions/Black Hangar Studios/Stereo D/Walt Disney Pictures)

Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment/Monkey Massacre)

Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Marvel Entertainment/Kinberg Genre/The Donners’ Company/TSG Entertainment)

Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig (Columbia Pictures/LStar Capital/Village Roadshow Pictures/Pascal Pictures/Feigco Entertainment/Ghostcorps/The Montecito Picture Company)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy)

Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris (House of Tomorrow)

Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender (HBO)

Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik (HBO)

Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette (BBC Cymru Wales)

Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)

Best Editor, Short Form

Ellen Datlow

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Neil Clarke

John Joseph Adams

Jonathan Strahan

Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

Liz Gorinsky

Sheila E. Gilbert

Devi Pillai

Miriam Weinberg

Navah Wolfe

No Award

Vox Day

Best Professional Artist

Julie Dillon

Sana Takeda

Galen Dara

Victo Ngai

Chris McGrath

John Picacio

Best Semiprozine

Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews

The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith

No Award

Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander

Best Fanzine

Lady Business, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood

nerds of a feather, flock together, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry

SF Bluestocking, edited by Bridget McKinney

Rocket Stack Rank, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

No Award

Castalia House Blog, edited by Jeffro Johnson

Best Fancast

Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan

Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams

Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch

Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

No Award

The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist

Best Fan Writer

Abigail Nussbaum

Foz Meadows

Mike Glyer

Chuck Tingle

Natalie Luhrs

No Award

Jeffro Johnson

Best Fan Artist

Elizabeth Leggett

Vesa Lehtimäki

Likhain (M. Sereno)

Ninni Aalto

Spring Schoenhuth

Steve Stiles

Worldcon 75 elected to exercise its authority under the WSFS Constitution to add an additional category for 2017 only. A similarly-defined category was added to the WSFS Constitution as a permanent category effective with the 2018 Worldcon; however, the category below is considered an Additional Category under the WSFS Constitution.

Best Series

A multi-volume science fiction or fantasy story, unified by elements such as plot, characters, setting, and presentation, appearing in at least three (3) volumes consisting in total of at least 240,000 words by the close of the previous calendar year, at least one volume of which was published in the previous calendar year. If any series and a subset series thereof both receive sufficient nominations to appear on the final ballot, only the version which received more nominations shall appear.

The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US / Orbit UK)

The Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Harper Voyager UK)

The Craft Sequence, by Max Gladstone (Tor Books)

The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series, by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz / Del Rey / DAW / Subterranean)

The October Daye Books, by Seanan McGuire (DAW / Corsair)

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2015 or 2016, sponsored by Dell Magazines. (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards.)

Ada Palmer

Malka Older*

Sarah Gailey

Laurie Penny*

Kelly Robson*

No Award

J. Mulrooney

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility

Declined/Ineligible

The following nominees received enough votes to qualify for the final ballot, but either declined nomination or were found to be ineligible.

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) : Game of Thrones: “The Winds of Winter” (No more than two episodes of any one show may be finalists in this category)

: Game of Thrones: “The Winds of Winter” (No more than two episodes of any one show may be finalists in this category) Best Professional Artist : JiHun Lee, Tomek Radziewicz (No qualifying publications in 2016)

: JiHun Lee, Tomek Radziewicz (No qualifying publications in 2016) Best Semiprozine : Lightspeed Magazine (Not eligible)

: Lightspeed Magazine (Not eligible) Best Fanzine : File 770 (Declined nomination)

: File 770 (Declined nomination) Best Fan Artist: Alex Garner, Mansik Yang (Initially announced as finalists but subsequently disqualified due to all published 2016 work being professional)

See Hugo Award Categories for a more detailed discussion of the categories. The technical definitions of the categories are in the current version of the WSFS Constitution, and those technical definitions take priority in case of any ambiguity. Decisions regarding eligibility are made by the current year’s Hugo Administration Subcommittee, whose decisions are final in all cases.