This year’s slate of Hugo Award nominees includes some of the biggest television shows, movies, comics, and novels released in 2021. The World Science Fiction Society has announced this year’s slate of Hugo Award nominees, which are given out each year to the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year. As the Hugo Awards cover not only prose novels, short stories and comics, but also live-action and animated works as well, this year’s nominees includes a wide slate of popular TV shows and movies.ย
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Dune, Encanto, The Green Knight, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, WandaVision, and Space Sweepers were all nominated for the “Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form” award, while episodes of The Wheel of Time, For All Mankind, Arcane, The Expanse, Loki and Star Trek: Lower Decks were nominated for the “Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form” award.
Best novel nominees includeย A Desolation Called Peaceย by Arkady Martine,ย The Galaxy, and the Ground Withinย by Becky Chambers,ย Light From Uncommon Starsย by Ryka Aoki,ย A Master of Djinnย by P. Djรจlรญ Clark,ย Project Hail Maryย by Andy Weir andย She Who Became the Sunย by Shelley Parker-Chan.ย The Green Bone Sagaย by Fonda Lee,ย The Kingston Cycleย by C. L. Polk,ย Merchant Princesย by Charles Stross,ย Terra Ignotaย by Ada Palmer,ย Wayward Childrenย by Seanan McGuire, and The World of the White Ratย by T. Kingfisher were all nominated for Best Series.
Comic nominees includeย DIE, vol. 4: Bleed, written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles,ย Far Sector, written by N.K. Jemisin, art by Jamal Campbell,ย Lore Olympus, vol. 1ย by Rachel Smythe,ย Monstress, vol. 6: The Vow, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda,ย Once & Future, vol. 3: The Parliament of Magpies, written by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Dan Mora, colored by Tamra Bonvillain andย Strange Adventures, written by Tom King, art by Mitch Gerads and Evan “Doc” Shaner.
You can check out the full list of nominees on Tor.com. Winners will be announced at this year’s Worldcon, which takes place September 1-5 in Chicago.
