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** Many congratulations to all the winners - well deserved for some excellent work! **

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social

Congratulations to all of the Hugo Award winners and finalists!!

locusmag.com2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Winners - LocusThe winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 30, 2026 by LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. The winners are: Best Novel WINNER: The Everlasting,Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop …Read More

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧

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31 Aug

Are Hugo awards aimed at Sci fi or fantasy? (Or both) No real sci fi in there! Downloaded a couple of samples nonetheless…

Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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Originally science fiction, but it soon widened to cover most "speculative fiction", so fantasy, alt history, magical realism, and horror have also won, at times. This year's Best Series winner - John Scalzi's Old Man's War - is very much classic science fiction.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧

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31 Aug

Which has been around for a long time!

Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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1 Sept

That is in the nature of the Best Series award. Old Man's War has been up for Best Series before, without winning, but when a sufficient number of new words has been added to a series it becomes eligible again. Since he released The Shattering Peace last year, it was eligible again and finally won

Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧

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2 Sept

Oh might have missed that! Off to buy that immediately!