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The finalists for Best Novel at the 2020 Hugo Awards, to be presented virtually at the World Science Fiction Convention this summer, are: The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders; The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E Harrow; The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley; A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine; Middlegame, Seanan McGuire; Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker has won the 2020 Philip K Dick Award, given for a volume of outstanding speculative fiction first published in paperback in the USA. In an online event which replaced the usual annual award ceremony at Norwescon, The Little Animals by Sarah Tolmie received a special citation.