The 2018 Hugo Awards will be presented at Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California, on August 19. The Hugo Award finalists are chosen by readers who are voting members of Worldcon. This week we’ll talk about the awards for Best Series, Best Young Adult Novel, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author. We discussed the categories for short works a few weeks ago and we’ll discuss the novels and novellas in our August 9 column.

Best series (in its second year) has a bumper crop of great stories. This category points out, once again, the difficulty in the category, with books that are definitely linked (Robert Jackson Bennett, Brandon Sanderson, for example) and series like Seanan McGuire’s books, which can be read as stand-alones. It will be interesting to watch this category evolve.

Click the title links below to read our reviews for these works and authors. We’re displaying the covers for our favorite finalists.

BEST SERIES

Young Adult is a new category and it too is filled with strong contenders.

BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

How many of these finalists have you read? Who do you think will/should win the Hugo Award in these categories? Answer below for a chance to win a book from our stacks.

Author

  • Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She’s retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town.