Debut novelist wins world’s top prize in science fiction for A Memory Called Empire, with Jeannette Ng and Neil Gaiman landing other categories
Debut author Arkady Martine has won the Hugo for best novel during a virtual ceremony hosted by George RR Martin that frequently turned deeply political.
Martine’s novel A Memory Called Empire, about an ambassador who travels to an interstellar city to take up a new post and discovers her predecessor was murdered, took the world’s top science fiction prize at the ceremony on Friday. The most prestigious awards in science fiction, the Hugos have been won in the past by some of the biggest names in the genre, from Philip K Dick and Isaac Asimov to Ursula K Le Guin, Arthur C Clarke and, three years in a row, NK Jemisin. The winners are voted for by members of WorldCon, the annual convention that hosts the prize.
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