Celebrate South Durham Area’s Hugo Award Finalists

Some of our friends in and around South Durham are among the finalists up for consideration for the Hugo Awards, given each year for speculative fiction by the World Science Fiction Society.

• Pittsboro resident Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, is a finalist for her novella Thornhedge, the story of a toad-shaped heroine determined to uphold a curse that a knight wants to break.

• Durham resident Mur Lafferty is among the editors, hosts, and producers credited with working on Escape Pod, a finalist in the semiprozine category.

• And Chapel Hill’s Natania Barron is among the presenters recognized as a finalist for the Worldbuilding for Masochists fancast.

The Hugo Awards, named after Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback, have been given out since 1953. This year, they’re going to be presented Aug. 11 in Glasgow, Scotland, at Worldcon.

For a complete list of Hugo Award finalists, visit this link.