On July 6th, the 2023 Hugo Award Nominee List was announced by the jury panel of Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention. Among the
nominees, there are four works by Chinese authors com-peting for the Best Short Story category: Jiang Bo’s On the Razor’s Edge (《命悬一线》), Ren Qing’s Resurrection (《还魂》), Lu Ban’s Upstart (《白色悬崖》) and Wang Kanyu’s Zhurong on Mars (《火星上的祝融》). The 2023 Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention will take place from October 18th to 22nd, and the final results of the 2023 Hugo Awards will be announced during the con-vention. This marks the first time the Hugo Awards have been selected and presented in China.The World Science Fiction Convention is the largest and most influential international science fiction event globally, and its Hugo Awards are the highest interna-tional accolades in the field of science fiction. In 2015, Chinese author Liu Cixin set record by winning the Hugo Award for the Best Novel with his science fiction book The Three-Body Problem (《三 体》), becoming the first Asian science fiction writer to receive this prestigious award since its inception.The 2023 Hugo Award has 17 main categories, includ-ing the Best Novel, along with additional awards like the “Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book” and “Astounding Award for Best New Writer”, a total of 19 awards. Apart from the four Chinese authors whose works were nominated for the Best Short Story, writer Hai Ya from Shenzhen has been nominated in the Best Novelette category with his work The Space-Time Painter (《时空画师》). Additionally, Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral His-tory, Volume 1 (《中国科幻口述史(第一卷)》) has been nominated for Best Related Work. Besides, the interview-ee of Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral History, Yao Haijun, and the book’s editor, Yang Feng, have been respectively nominated for Best Novel Editor and Best Short Work Editor in the Hugo Awards.