Hugo Award Nominees for 2025!

Hugo Award banner from with UGO

To my usual delight with speculative fiction, the Hugo awards have been announced! These controversial awards raise lots of questions about voice, audience, and the politics of publication. Nonetheless, they are usually worth a gander as awesome literature. I, for one, adore a couple of these authors.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, May 2024)
By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)
The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s, September/October 2024)
“Lake of Souls” by Ann Leckie in Lake of Souls (Orbit)
Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 59)

Best Short Story

Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed Magazine, Jan 2024 (Issue 164))
Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 56)
Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 57)
Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine, May 2024 (Issue 168))
Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld, February 2024)

For More

For the rest of categories, take a look at the official page.