吴志丽

吴志丽（英语：Jeannette Ng），香港科幻作家，现居英国，为小说《摇摆的太阳之下》的作者。吴志丽获颁2019年约翰·W·坎贝尔最佳新作家奖和2020年雨果奖最佳相关作品奖等奖项。

生平

吴志丽早年于英国杜伦大学进修文学硕士，之后定居达拉谟当地。2017年，她的第一本小说《摇摆的太阳之下》 (Under the Pendulum Sun) 出版，并获得入选为美国电视频道Syfy网站“2017年十大科幻小说”和英国卫报“2017年最佳科幻小说”之一。

2019年，吴志丽获得了约翰·W·坎贝尔最佳新作家奖，她在获奖时批评约翰·W·坎贝尔是法西斯主义、帝国主义和殖民主义者，之后该奖项更名为惊奇最佳新作家奖 (Astounding Award for Best New Writer) 。吴志丽也在致辞中为反对逃犯条例修订草案运动参与者感到自豪。她的致辞也获得了2020雨果奖最佳相关作品奖，她在雨果奖致辞中希望读者“不要冷待香港”。

Jeannette Ng (Chinese: 吳志麗) is a British fantasy writer best known for her 2017 novel Under the Pendulum Sun, for which she won the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer at the 2018 British Fantasy Awards. For that work, she was also the winner of the 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which, largely due to her acceptance speech, was shortly thereafter renamed to the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. In 2020, she won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for that acceptance speech.

Life and education

Ng was born in Hong Kong, and used her 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer acceptance speech to pay tribute to the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protestors. In 2022 she was among the Hugo winners who signed an open letter calling for revocation of the Chinese hosting of the 2023 81st World Science Fiction Convention.

She studied at Durham University, earning an M.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She lives in Durham, England. Ng is a nonbinary woman and uses she or they pronouns.

In 2025, Ng and Lauren Beukes set up "The Genre Creators for Trans Rights Auction", with authors including Olivie Blake, Patrick Rothfuss, Ali Hazelwood and Adrian Tchaikovsky, as well as the estate of Terry Pratchett, donating items to raise money for the Good Law Project and Cape Town's Triangle Project to work for trans rights in the wake of both the UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010, and simultaneous funding pressures on South African queer rights organisations.

Career

Publications

Ng's 2017 debut novel Under the Pendulum Sun (published by Angry Robot) concerns a fantastical journey in gothic mid-19th century England, and was shortlisted for Starburst's 2017 Brave New Words award and the 2018 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel at the British Fantasy Awards. It was named by Syfy as one of the "10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2017" and included in Adam Roberts' list of "The best science fiction and fantasy of 2017" in The Guardian and Jeff Somers' list of "50 of the Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut Novels Ever Written."

Ng won the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer at the 2018 British Fantasy Awards for Under the Pendulum Sun, and was a 2018 finalist and 2019 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, announced as part of the Hugo Awards.

Her story "How the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic" is included in the anthology Not So Stories, published April 2018 by Abaddon Books, and was described by Starburst as "a tour de force of the author's talents." Other short stories have been published in Mythic Delirium and Shoreline of Infinity magazines.

John W. Campbell Award and acceptance speech

In 2019, Ng won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, awarded during the Hugo Award ceremony at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention.

As part of her acceptance speech, she referred to the award's namesake John W. Campbell as "a fucking fascist", sparking debate in the science fiction and fantasy community.

On 27 August, the editor of award sponsors Analog Science Fiction and Fact announced that the award would be renamed the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

In July 2020, Ng was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for her 2019 John W. Campbell Award acceptance speech. In her acceptance speech for this award (delivered by video due to the COVID-19 pandemic), she said that "pulling down memorials to dead racists is not the erasing of history, it is how we make history". She also said that "Last time I gave a speech at WorldCon, it was literally hours after a huge march in Hong Kong, my most cyberpunk of cities. Since then, things have gotten worse." "The tactics used to marginalise us, the tear gas used against us, it is the same everywhere. And we defeat it in the same way. And so our coming together is more important than ever before. To write a future of joy and hope and change." "Now is the time. Now is always the time. Free Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time."