Winners for the Hugo Awards were announced at DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention in December in Washington DC. The winners were: Best Novel, Network Effect, Martha Wells; Novella, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo; Novelette, Two Truths and a Lie, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com, 6/17/20); Short Story, Metal Like Blood in the Dark, T Kingfisher (Uncanny 9-10/20); Series, The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells; Related Work, Beowulf, Maria Dahvana Headley; Graphic Story or Comic, Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Octavia E Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings.