# Hugo Award for Best Series

The Hugo Award for Best Series is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The award is available for series of science fiction or fantasy stories consisting of at least 3 published works totaling at least 240,000 words, with at least one work released or translated into English during the previous calendar year. A losing finalist becomes eligible again with the publication of at least two new works totaling at least 240,000 words.
The Hugo Award for Best Series has been awarded annually since 2017. It was first presented in that year as a one-time special Hugo Award in advance of a vote to make it a permanent category, and was ratified as such by members of the World Science Fiction Society that year. An earlier series award was given to Isaac Asimov for his Foundation series in 1966 for Best All-Time Series. In addition to the regular Hugo Awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro-Hugos", have been available to be awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given. A Retro-Hugo Award has been given for the series category once, in 2020, representing what could have been awarded in 1945.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees. The series on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of series that can be nominated. Initial nominations of five series each are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.
In the 9 nomination years, 45 series by 40 authors have been nominated, including co-authors and Retro-Hugos. Lois McMaster Bujold is the only author to win twice, for the Vorkosigan Saga and World of the Five Gods series. Ten other authors have received multiple nominations, with Seanan McGuire nominated for three different series; Robert Jackson Bennett, Naomi Novik, Charles Stross, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Martha Wells being nominated for two; and Ben Aaronovitch, Aliette de Bodard, and James S. A. Corey (a pen-name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) nominated multiple times for the same series. McGuire has the most nominations overall with eight, winning once.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when any work in the series was published. Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the other nominated series.
* Winners and joint winners
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author | Series | Publisher(s) |
| 2017 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | The Vorkosigan Saga | Baen Books |
| 2017 | Max Gladstone | The Craft Sequence | Tor Books |
| 2017 | James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) | The Expanse | Orbit Books |
| 2017 | Seanan McGuire | The October Daye series | DAW Books / Corsair Books |
| 2017 | Ben Aaronovitch | The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series | Victor Gollancz Ltd / Del Rey Books / DAW Books / Subterranean Press |
| 2017 | Naomi Novik | The Temeraire series | Del Rey Books / Harper Voyager UK |
| 2018 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | World of the Five Gods | Harper Voyager / Spectrum Literary Agency |
| 2018 | Martha Wells | The Books of the Raksura | Night Shade Books |
| 2018 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Divine Cities | Broadway Books |
| 2018 | Seanan McGuire | InCryptid | DAW Books |
| 2018 | Marie Brennan | The Memoirs of Lady Trent | Tor Books / Titan Books |
| 2018 | Brandon Sanderson | The Stormlight Archive | Tor Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2019 | Becky Chambers* | Wayfarers | Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager |
| 2019 | Malka Older | The Centenal Cycle | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Charles Stross | The Laundry Files | Tor.com Publishing / Orbit Books |
| 2019 | Yoon Ha Lee | Machineries of Empire | Solaris Books |
| 2019 | Seanan McGuire | The October Daye series | DAW Books |
| 2019 | Aliette de Bodard | The Universe of Xuya | Subterranean Press |
| 2020 | James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)* | The Expanse | Orbit Books |
| 2020 | Seanan McGuire | InCryptid | DAW Books |
| 2020 | Ian McDonald | Luna | Tor Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2020 | Emma Newman | Planetfall series | Ace Books / Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2020 | Katherine Arden | Winternight Trilogy | Del Rey Books |
| 2020 | Tade Thompson | The Wormwood Trilogy | Orbit Books |
| 2021 | Martha Wells* | The Murderbot Diaries | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2021 | S. A. Chakraborty | The Daevabad Trilogy | Harper Voyager |
| 2021 | John Scalzi | The Interdependency | Tor Books |
| 2021 | Mary Robinette Kowal | The Lady Astronaut Universe | Tor Books / Audible / The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2021 | Seanan McGuire | The October Daye series | DAW Books |
| 2021 | R. F. Kuang | The Poppy War | Harper Voyager |
| 2022 | Seanan McGuire* | Wayward Children | Tordotcom Publishing |
| 2022 | Fonda Lee | The Green Bone Saga | Orbit Books |
| 2022 | C. L. Polk | The Kingston Cycle | Tordotcom Publishing |
| 2022 | Charles Stross | The Merchant Princes | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2022 | Ada Palmer | Terra Ignota | Tor Books |
| 2022 | T. Kingfisher | The World of the White Rat | Argyll Productions |
| 2023 | Adrian Tchaikovsky* | Children of Time series | Pan Macmillan/Orbit Books |
| 2023 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Founders Trilogy | Del Rey Books |
| 2023 | Tamsyn Muir | The Locked Tomb | Tordotcom |
| 2023 | Seanan McGuire | October Daye | DAW Books |
| 2023 | Ben Aaronovitch | Rivers of London | Orion Publishing Group |
| 2023 | Naomi Novik | The Scholomance | Del Rey Books |
| 2024 | Ann Leckie* | Imperial Radch | Orbit Books |
| 2024 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Final Architecture | Tordotcom / Orbit Books |
| 2024 | Freya Marske | The Last Binding | Tordotcom / Tor Books |
| 2024 | Charles Stross | The Laundry Files | Tordotcom / Orbit Books |
| 2024 | Seanan McGuire | October Daye | DAW Books |
| 2024 | Aliette de Bodard | The Universe of Xuya | Victor Gollancz Ltd / JABberwocky Literary Agency / Subterranean Press / Uncanny Magazine / et al.) |

### Retro-Hugos

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society gave Worldcons the option to award Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro-Hugos", in addition to the regular nominations for the year. Retro-Hugos can be retroactively awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years before the current year, if no awards were originally given that year. They have been awarded seven times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954, though only once for series. Retro-Hugos for series do not note the original publishers.
Retro-Hugo winners and nominees :
| Year | Year awarded | Author(s) | Series |
| 1945 | 2020 | H. P. Lovecraft* | The Cthulhu Mythos |
| 1945 | 2020 | August Derleth et al.* | The Cthulhu Mythos |
| 1945 | 2020 | Edmond Hamilton (as Brett Sterling) | Captain Future |
| 1945 | 2020 | Kenneth Robeson | Doc Savage |
| 1945 | 2020 | Lester Dent | Doc Savage |
| 1945 | 2020 | Seabury Quinn | Jules de Grandin |
| 1945 | 2020 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Pellucidar |
| 1945 | 2020 | Walter B. Gibson (as Maxwell Grant) | The Shadow |