Hugo Best Series Award Winners - First Novels
A list of the first published works in series which won the Hugo Award for Best Series. A series must have at least three published works of at least 240,000 words, with at least one work published in English in the previous calendar year.
This list also includes winners of the All-Time Series award and Retro-Hugo for Best Series award.
The win for the Children of Time series has been disavowed by the author, Adrian Tchaikovsky, due to the balloting controversies surrounding the 2023 Hugo awards.
created by LostSeason
last updated August, 2026
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Since not all of the included books currently show their series on the book page, here are the winners by series name:
2017 - The Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold) 2018 - World of the Five Gods (Lois McMaster Bujold) 2019 - Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) 2020 - The Expanse (James S.A. Corey) 2021 - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) 2022 - Wayward Children (Seanan McGuire) 2023 - Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky) 2024 - Imperial Radch (Ann Leckie) 2025 - Between Earth and Sky (Rebecca Roanhorse) 2026 - Old Man's War (John Scalzi)
1945 (Retro-Hugo) - The Cthulhu Mythos (H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, et al.) 1966 (Best All-Time Series) - Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
Just added the 2026 winner, Old Man's War by John Scalzi
