Hugo Award for Best Series
Awarded forThe best science fiction or fantasy series of at least 3 volumes and 240,000 words, with a work published in the prior calendar year
Presented byWorld Science Fiction Society
First awarded2017
Most recent winnerAdrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time series)
WebsiteOfficial website

The Hugo Award for Best Series is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The award is available for series of science fiction or fantasy stories consisting of at least 3 published works totaling at least 240,000 words, with at least one work released or translated into English during the previous calendar year. A losing finalist becomes eligible again with the publication of at least two new works totaling at least 240,000 words.[1]

The Hugo Award for Best Series has been awarded annually since 2017. It was first presented in that year as a one-time special Hugo Award in advance of a vote to make it a permanent category, and was ratified as such by members of the World Science Fiction Society that year.[2] An earlier series award was given to Isaac Asimov for his Foundation series in 1966 for Best All-Time Series. In addition to the regular Hugo Awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro-Hugos", have been available to be awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given.[3] A Retro-Hugo Award has been given for the series category once, in 2020, representing what could have been awarded in 1945.[4]

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees. The series on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of series that can be nominated. Initial nominations of five series each are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.[5][6] Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.[7][8]

In the 8 nomination years, 42 series by 38 authors have been nominated, including co-authors and Retro-Hugos. Lois McMaster Bujold is the only author to win twice, for the Vorkosigan Saga and World of the Five Gods series. Eight other authors have received multiple nominations, with Seanan McGuire nominated for three different series; Robert Jackson Bennett, Naomi Novik, Charles Stross, and Martha Wells being nominated for two; and Ben Aaronovitch and James S. A. Corey (a pen-name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) nominated multiple times for the same series. McGuire has the most nominations overall with seven, winning once.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when any work in the series was published. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominated series.

  *   Winners and joint winners

Winners and nominees
Year Author Series Publisher(s) Ref.
2017 Lois McMaster Bujold*The Vorkosigan SagaBaen Books [2]
Max GladstoneThe Craft SequenceTor Books [2]
Daniel Abraham (as James S. A. Corey) The Expanse Orbit Books [2]
Ty Franck (as James S. A. Corey)
Seanan McGuireThe October Daye seriesDAW Books / Corsair Books [2]
Ben AaronovitchThe Peter Grant / Rivers of London seriesVictor Gollancz Ltd / Del Rey Books / DAW Books / Subterranean Press [2]
Naomi NovikThe Temeraire seriesDel Rey Books / Harper Voyager UK [2]
2018 Lois McMaster Bujold*World of the Five GodsHarper Voyager / Spectrum Literary Agency [9]
Martha WellsThe Books of the RaksuraNight Shade Books [9]
Robert Jackson BennettThe Divine CitiesBroadway Books [9]
Seanan McGuireInCryptidDAW Books [9]
Marie BrennanThe Memoirs of Lady TrentTor Books / Titan Books [9]
Brandon SandersonThe Stormlight ArchiveTor Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd [9]
2019 Becky Chambers*WayfarersHodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager [10]
Malka OlderThe Centenal CycleTor.com Publishing [10]
Charles StrossThe Laundry FilesTor.com Publishing / Orbit Books [10]
Yoon Ha LeeMachineries of EmpireSolaris Books [10]
Seanan McGuireThe October Daye seriesDAW Books [10]
Aliette de BodardThe Universe of XuyaSubterranean Press [10]
2020 Daniel Abraham (as James S. A. Corey)* The Expanse Orbit Books [11]
Ty Franck (as James S. A. Corey)*
Seanan McGuireInCryptidDAW Books [11]
Ian McDonaldLunaTor Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd [11]
Emma NewmanPlanetfall seriesAce Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd [11]
Katherine ArdenWinternight TrilogyDel Rey Books [11]
Tade ThompsonThe Wormwood TrilogyOrbit Books [11]
2021 Martha Wells*The Murderbot DiariesTor.com Publishing [12]
S. A. ChakrabortyThe Daevabad TrilogyHarper Voyager [12]
John ScalziThe InterdependencyTor Books [12]
Mary Robinette KowalThe Lady Astronaut UniverseTor Books / Audible / The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [12]
Seanan McGuireThe October Daye seriesDAW Books [12]
R. F. KuangThe Poppy WarHarper Voyager [12]
2022 Seanan McGuire*Wayward ChildrenTordotcom Publishing [13]
Fonda LeeThe Green Bone SagaOrbit Books [13]
C. L. PolkThe Kingston CycleTordotcom Publishing [13]
Charles StrossThe Merchant PrincesMacmillan Publishers [13]
Ada PalmerTerra IgnotaTor Books [13]
T. KingfisherThe World of the White RatArgyll Productions [13]
2023 Adrian Tchaikovsky*Children of Time seriesPan Macmillan/Orbit Books [14]
Robert Jackson BennettThe Founders TrilogyDel Rey Books [14]
Tamsyn MuirThe Locked TombTordotcom [14]
Seanan McGuireOctober DayeDAW Books [14]
Ben AaronovitchRivers of LondonOrion Publishing Group [14]
Naomi NovikThe ScholomanceDel Rey Books [14]

Retro-Hugos

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society gave Worldcons the option to award Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro-Hugos", in addition to the regular nominations for the year. Retro-Hugos can be retroactively awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years before the current year, if no awards were originally given that year.[3] They have been awarded seven times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954, though only once for series.[4] Retro-Hugos for series do not note the original publishers.

Retro-Hugo winners and nominees
Year Year awarded Author(s) Series Ref.
1945 2020 H. P. Lovecraft* The Cthulhu Mythos [15]
August Derleth et al.*
Edmond Hamilton (as Brett Sterling)Captain Future [15]
Kenneth Robeson Doc Savage [15]
Lester Dent
Seabury QuinnJules de Grandin [15]
Edgar Rice BurroughsPellucidar [15]
Walter B. Gibson (as Maxwell Grant)The Shadow [15]

References

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  4. 1 2 "Retro Hugo Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
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  6. ↑ "Worldcon 75: 2017 Hugo report #2" (PDF). Worldcon 75. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
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  8. ↑ "World Science Fiction Society / Worldcon". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
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  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2019 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 2019-09-18. Archived from the original on 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
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  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2021 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 2021-12-18. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2022 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 2022-09-04. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2023 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 2023-07-06. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "1945 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
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