Hugo Awards winners announced at LAcon V

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At LAcon V on Sunday, August 30, 2026, the Hugo Awards ceremony at the Anaheim Convention Center’s Arena (8:00pm Pacific, streamed online) named winners across the science fiction and fantasy field. The 2026 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form went to Murderbot: “All Systems Red,” written by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on Martha Wells’s All Systems Red. The 2026 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form went to Sinners. Thomas Ha won a Hugo for his short story “In My Country.” Voting for the Hugos closed at noon on August 8, 2026, and LAcon V provided a voter packet through NomNom while administering the awards via a Hugo Awards Subcommittee led by Administrator Tammy Coxen and deputies Rosemary Parks, Warren Buff, and Emily January. The ceremony also included presentation of the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and LAcon V issued a special Hugo Award for Best Poem this year.

Los Angeles Worldcon

@laworldcon.bsky.social

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form goes to Murderbot: “All Systems Red”, written by Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV).

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Kristin Pratt4

Hooray for #Murderbot! Also if you haven’t seen this amazing diorama by @alopexstudios.bsky.social based on one of the shots from the show’s opening, go check it out! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Gabby3

Hey hey hey!!! 🥰 @rosewind.bsky.social

Autism with Person (happy)2

Congrats @marthawells.com - so well deserved!!

Naomi Kritzer

@naomikritzer.bsky.social

I'm watching the Hugo Awards livestream and Ursula "Queen of Weird Animal Facts" Vernon may be the best emcee of all time. Of any awards show. They should have her do the Oscars 😂😍

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Jacq3

Ooh, what creature have we learnt about this time?

Chip Unicorn3

The Hugo Awards are *amazing*. So many talented people!

Birdpoof2

I need to find video...

meshell2

Utterly delightful. So many hats!

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Pen || Penelope Guinn9

Me at someone’s weird post about a celebrity: oof that’s very parasocial of you, Ashley Lynn Also me: idk guys I think T Kingfisher and I could be friends!

Manda Cherry6

She really is doing wonderfully

John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

Here is the announcement of my category at the Hugos this year, and then me giving my acceptance speech. If for some reason the embed does not take you directly to it, it starts at 2:34:21. You can also watch the whole ceremony, just scrub back. www.youtube.com/live/8AyarB0...

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Allan Courtney3

I trust you, John. I don't need to watch this to fact check you. Congratulations!

Lieutenant Kernel of Truth3

congrats! My wife *loves* this series. I do, too, but she's more discriminating.

danbruzzone.bsky.social2

Whatever joy you felt on receiving this award is just a pale reflection of all you've given to your readers. Thank you for everything you created and shared with us.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick2

I love Toby Daye, but OMW just speaks to me. Well earned. 🫡

Canadian Dude2

T. Kingfisher was amazing as MC and made the entire event fly by. Absolutely hilarious and educational!

justalurkr 🖤🩶🤍💜 🐈 🌻1

That was a tough field.

Will "scifantasy" Frank

@scifantasy.bsky.social

I'll give this to the #HugoAwards captioning. They know when to be accurate. (cc @tkingfisher.com)

A slide says "Presented by Harry Turtledove."
At the bottom a caption reads:
"testosterone than the males. Two, thanks to a pseudo penis formed by an erectile clitoris, they have larger equipment than the males. The downside is that they have to give birth through it. While you are recovering from that here's Harry Turtledove."

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️32

She was talking about hyenas, wasn't she...

Tony Fisk7

This is presumably about hyenas rather than turtledoves.

Chekhov's Murder Hornets3

Having seen what the transcription software was capable of during the day, I was concerned. I feel better now.

A_lethe_ion2

how to elicit empathy with nutshots for people without nuts

Lillian Badger 1

I nominate Ursula to apprentice with, and carry on the legacy of David Attenborough. (Inter)national Treasure status included.

Marc Reeve1

The groan that went up in the room when that factoid was mentioned…

Catherynne M. Valente

@catvalente.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who read my little vampire story, & everyone who nominated & voted for it. #HugoAwards Second place ain’t bad. There was nothing but love all over that hotel this weekend.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧

@charliejane.bsky.social

This has been in my mind since I learned the Hugo awards are happening in the ARENA

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Dr. Tessa Fisher4

Quickly! Synthesize some primitive gunpowder from whatever's lying around

Lee M@rτіՈ2

That location is only an hour north of Anaheim, if you speed, a little.

Andrea Horbinski

@horbinski.bsky.social

We finally got @adapalmer.bsky.social's acceptance speech for Inventing the Renaissance at the Hugo Awards, and it's a good one: "If cautionary tales worked, they'd have worked by now." So building the future it is.

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Locus Magazine

@locusmag.bsky.social

Barbara Hambly presents the Hugo Award for Best Series to Old Man's War, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK) #HugoAwards

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Stephanie Burgis

@stephanieburgis.bsky.social

Well, this is incredibly cool: my short story "Mail-Order Magic" made the Hugo Awards longlist (in truly incredible company)! 😍 You can read it for free right here: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

This table of nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story includes not only the six finalists (JR Dawson's Six People to Revise You, Thomas Ha's In My Country, Samantha Mills's "10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days," Effie Seiberg's "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything," Isabel J. Kim's "Wire Mother" and Tia Tashiro's "Missing Helen," but also the 10 other stories that got the closest number of nominations. In descending order: Angela Liu's Barbershops of the Floating City, Hildur Knutsdottir's The Shape of Stones, E.M. Linden's the Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead, Carrie Vaughn's Woolly, Stephanie Burgis's Mail-Order Magic, Marie Vibbert's Yarn Theory, Isabel J. Kim's Freediver, Aimee Ogden's Because I Held His Name Like a Key, Mary Robinette Kowal's With Her Serpent Locks, and Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's The Loudest, Smallest Dragon Son.

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Fellow Traveller

@fellowtraveller.games

Congratulations to @expedition33.bsky.social for winning Best Game or Interactive Work at the Hugo Awards tonight! 🚀 This year's nominees were outstanding. We're proud to have Citizen Sleeper 2 stand beside them 💛

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Marie Brennan

@swantower.bsky.social

Tonight, I'll get to see someone else win the second Hugo Award for poetry, and we will be the only two ever to have them as Special Awards rather than a standard category. I cannot wait to congratulate the winner, and to see what flowers bloom in future years!

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog

@hugobookclub.bsky.social

Going back to my hotel room to spray my entire body with spray-can hair in preparation for the Hugo Awards.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer

@cypheroftyr.bsky.social

Damn it’s hard seeing folks you knew in the In Memoriam section. #HugoAwards

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J.R. Dawson

@jrdawson.bsky.social

First, MASSIVE congratulations to Thomas Ha for his Hugo win. His short story, “In My Country,” is FANTASTIC and one of my favorite stories of 2025. I wanted to finally share my rebel loon dress for the awards ceremony. Necklace is @midnightxartist . And the speech explaining why this dress.

A pretty blue mockingjay dress with red boots and blue hair

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

@sazeracla.bsky.social

Jason’s friend Chris, accepting the award for him and sharing Jason’s words, beginning with “Oh shit. I guess I should have gone to #Worldcon this year.” @laworldcon.bsky.social #HugoAwards

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