2020 Galaxy Awards

2020 Galaxy Awards
2020 Galaxy Awards

The 2020 Galaxy (Yinhe) Awards were presented at the at the Shaocheng Theater in Chengdu, China on October 24.

Shaoyan Hu has provided Amazing Stories with an English-langauge version of the winners list, repeated here with permission of publisher Steve Davidson. (Many thanks!)

Best Novel Award

  • not given this year

Best Novella Award

  • Our World of Science Fiction, by Bao Shu
  • The Realm of Eternal Catastrophe, by Chen Hongyu
  • Double Helix, by Qi Yue

Best Short Story Award

  • The Colored World, by Mu Min
  • Hibana, by Tai Yi
  • The Secret of Tithonus, by Fen Xing Cheng Zi
  • Trinity333, by Hui Hu
  • The Elegant Blending, by Liu Yanzeng

Best Web Fiction Award

  • A Look Back of Millennia, by Huo Zhong Wu

Best New Writer Award

  • Fen Xing Cheng Zi (The Secret of Tithonus)
  • Wei Mo (Driverless)

Most Popular Foreign Writer Award

  • Sayuri Ueda (The Dream of Reed Whistle)

Best Translation Award

  • Sun Jia (VALIS, by Philip K. Dick)

Best Art Award

  • Cover Art of Science Fiction World Translations Vol 1., 2019, by Jiu Dai Huo Ying

Best Editor Award

  • Li Xin
  • Chen Yao

Best Sci-Fi Organization

  • Science Fiction Association of Renmin University of China
  • Wo Wei Science Fiction Association of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Science Fiction Association of Southwest Jiaotong University

Best Related Book Award

  • The Secrets in The Three-Body Problem, by Tian Jiagang, Sichuan Science Technology Publishing House
  • Sci-Fi Chronicles: A Visual History of the Galaxy’s Greatest Science Fiction, by Guy Haley, Translated by Wang Jiayin, China Pictorial Publishing House

Best Imported Book Award

  • Dragon’s Egg, by Robert L. Forward, Translated by Kuan Yuan, Sichuan Science Technology Publishing House

Best Original Book Award

  • The Egg of Universe, by Wang Jinkang, Sichuan Science Technology Publishing House
  • Algorithms for Life, by Chen Qiufan, CITIC Press Group

Shaoyan Hu is a part-time translator for speculative fictions. He has worked together with other translators to render A Song of Ice and Fire series into Chinese language. His other translation works in Chinese language include Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge, The Scar by China Miéville, and The City & the City by China Miéville. There are also a number of short stories, novelettes and novellas translated by Shaoyan that appeared in various SF&F magazines in China.