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No livestream that I could find - there may have been something for Virtual Attendings but I am merely a Supporting - but I followed along with Locus Magazine tweeting them.

Astounding Award for Best New Writer

Winner: Travis Baldree
Naseem Jamnia
Isabel J Kim*
Maijia Liu
Everina Maxwell*
Weimu Xin*

* – finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility

I'm sorry it wasn't Kim, but I'm not at all surprised about this outcome.

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

Winner: Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor
Bloodmarked, by Tracy Deonn
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, by Charlie Jane Anders
The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik
In the Serpents Wake, by Rachel Hartman
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, by Catherynne M. Valente

I, uh, ended up not reading half of these, including this one, but this seems very plausible. Like, within established Hugos trends.

Best Fan Artist

Winner: Richard Man
Iain Clark
Laya Rose
Alison Scott
España Sheriff
Orion Smith

Cool, I thought his project was neat.

Best Fan Writer

Winner: Chris M. Barkley
Bitter Karella
Arthur Liu
RiverFlow
Jason Sanford
Örjan Westin

I have no idea who this is or where they write. I don't even seem to have Fan Writers in my packet this year.

Best Fancast

Winner: Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, produced by Jonathan Strahan
Hugos There, by Seth Heasley
Kalanadi, created and presented by Rachel
Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
Worldbuilding for Masochists, by Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca

Sure.

Best Fanzine

Winner:Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen
Chinese Academic SF Express, by Latssep and Tianluo_Qi
Galactic Journey, by Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammi Bozich, Erica Frank, Arel Lucas, and Mark Yon
Journey Planet, by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Sara Felix, Amanda Wakaruk, Olav Rokne, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Chuck Serface, Erin Underwood, Alissa Wales, John Coxon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
Nerds of a Feather, by Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer, Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, G. Brown
Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, by Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk

I think this is a Chinese winner? That seems good, go them!

Best Semiprozine

Winner: Uncanny Magazine
Escape Pod
FIYAH
khōréō
PodCastle
Strange Horizons

How many more of these things do they need before they retire from the field?

Best Professional Artist

Winner: Enzhe Zhao
Sija Hong
Kuri Huang
Paul Lewin
Alyssa Winans
Jian Zhang

Sure! Wasn't my first pick, but some cool stuff, and yay for another Chinese winner.

Best Editor, Long Form

Winner: Lindsey Hall
Ruoxi Chen
Lee Harris
Sarah Peed
Huan Yan
Haijun Yao

Another one I know nothing about, no packet submission. I think this is someone at Tor?

Best Editor, Short Form

Winner: Neil Clarke
Scott H. Andrews
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Sheree Renée Thomas
Xu Wang
Feng Yang

Cool. I hope we eventually get the text or video of his speech, I'm curious if he'll use this as a platform to talk more about bot-generated stories.

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Winner: The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”
Andor: “One Way Out”
Andor: “Rix Road”
For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?”
Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”

Do I know less about this category or Fancasts, hm. I guess I've heard of more of these shows.

Best Dramatic Presentation，Long Form

Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Avatar: The Way of Water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Nope
Severance (Season 1)
Turning Red

Not at all surprising, but also the correct outcome IMO, good work everyone. :)

Best Related Work

Winner: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, by Rob Wilkins
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, by Kyle Buchanan
Buffalito World Outreach Project, by Lawrence M. Schoen
Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral History, Volume 1, by Yang Feng
“The Ghost of Workshops Past”, by S.L. Huang
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, by Wil Wheaton

Another category where I didn't manage to read half of them including this one, but this feels likely. People love Pratchett. Maybe a good leadup to his inevitable Infinity Award? (I don't think he's next on that list, but I think he's in the next five.)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Winner: Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, by Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid (Legendary Comics)
Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, by Kieron Gillen / Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
Saga, Vol. 10, by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)

I didn't read any of these. The struggle to get interesting works onto this ballot continues. :/

Best Series

Winner: Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Founders Trilogy, by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Locked Tomb, by Tamsyn Muir
October Daye, by Seanan McGuire
Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovich
The Scholomance, by Naomi Novik

Interesting! I wonder if Locked Tomb will manage it the year Alecto comes out, or if Locked Tomb fandom is in fact loud and excited but insufficiently large to actually do it, much like October Daye.

Best Short Story

Winner: “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)
“D.I.Y.”, by John Wiswell (Tordotcom, August 2022)
“On the Razor’s Edge”, by Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World, January 2022)
“Resurrection”, by Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World, December 2022)
“The White Cliff”, by Lu Ban (Science Fiction World, May 2022)
“Zhurong on Mars”, by Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers, September 2022)

Ok! So I think this is the most interesting outcome so far, where we had this clear Anglosphere leader, and a big question of whether Chinese voter turnout would a) be larger and b) coalesce enough around one nominee to beat it. Looks like not! I can't wait to see the voting stats, I really hope they release them. Also I would really like to hear or read her acceptance speech.

Best Novelette

Winner: “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Solaris)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Tordotcom)
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, by John Chu (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022)
“Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, by S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld, December 2022)
“We Built This City”, by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)

Ooh, and now a Chinese winner! Because there were more English nominees and fewer Chinese in this category, so the vote-splitting went the other way around here? Very interesting! I hope we get a good translation of this story published somewhere now that's it's won!

Best Novella

Winner: Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire
Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk
Into the Riverlands, by Nghi Vo
A Mirror Mended, by Alix E. Harrow
Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher

Seriously? Well, that's maddening. :(

Best Novel

Winner: Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

I no-awarded this category, but someone was going to win. This seems like as good an outcome as any, although I also think this is more of a lifetime-achievement Hugo than so much about this exact particular book. I would *definitely* like to get to read or hear whatever speech Vernon sent her accepter with, you know that's going to be fun.

And that's the Hugos!