Seattle Worldcon 2025 Hugo Award Finalists

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Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention today announced the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. A full list of the Finalists can be found at the Seattle Worldcon 2025 Webpage.

VOTING TOTALS. 1,738 1,338 valid electronic nominating ballots were received by the deadline of March 14 at 11:59 p.m. PDT and counted from the members of the 2024 and 2025 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2025 Hugo Awards. ​​ Unfortunately, 2 mailed ballots were received 2.5 weeks later on April 3rd after the deadline of receipt.

Voting on the final ballot will open during April 2025. Only Seattle Worldcon 2025 WSFS members will be able to vote on the final ballot and choose the winners for the 2025 Awards.

The 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award will be presented on Saturday evening, August 16, 2025 at a formal ceremony at Seattle Worldcon 2025.

BEST NOVEL

  • Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US, Tor UK)
  • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press, Sceptre)
  • Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom)
  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (DAW)
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Tor)
  • The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)

1078 ballots cast for 554 nominees, Finalists range 90 to 157

BEST NOVELLA

  • The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
  • The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
  • Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
  • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
  • The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
  • What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)

739 ballots cast for 209 nominees, Finalists range 75 to 135

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)

394 ballots cast for 188 nominees, Finalists range 36 to 58

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)

610 ballots cast for 673 nominees, Finalists range 32 to 110

BEST SERIES

  • Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)
  • The Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
  • InCryptid by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
  • Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)
  • The Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)

621 ballots cast for 201 nominees, Finalists range 57 to 90

BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC

  • The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
  • The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1 written by G. Willow Wilson, art by Chris Wildgoose (IDW Publishing)
  • Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image)
  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (IDW Publishing)
  • We Called Them Giants written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image)

265 ballots cast for 259 nominees, Finalists range 13 to 37

BEST RELATED WORK

  • “Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics” by Camestros Felapton and Heather Rose Jones (File 770, February 22, 2024)
  • r/Fantasy’s 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge (r/Fantasy on Reddit), presented by the r/Fantasy Bingo team: Alexandra Forrest (happy_book_bee), Lisa Richardson, Amanda E. (Lyrrael), Arka (RuinEleint), Ashley Rollins (oboist73), Christine Sandquist (eriophora), David H. (FarragutCircle), Diana Hufnagl, Pia Matei (Dianthaa), Dylan H. (RAAAImmaSunGod), Dylan Kilby (an_altar_of_plagues), Elsa (ullsi), Emma Surridge (PlantLady32), Gillian Gray (thequeensownfool), Kahlia (cubansombrero), Kevin James, Kopratic, Kristina (Cassandra_sanguine), Lauren Mulcahy (Valkhyrie), Megan, Megan Creemers (Megan_Dawn), Melissa S. (wishforagiraffe), Mike De Palatis (MikeOfThePalace), Para (improperly_paranoid), Sham, The_Real_JS, Abdellah L. (messi1045), AnnTickwittee, Chad Z. (shift_shaper), Emma Smiley (Merle), Rebecca (toughschmidt22), smartflutist661
  • “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel” by Jenny Nicholson (YouTube)
  • Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
  • Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene Books)
  • “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion” by Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford (Genre Grapevine and File770, February 14, 2024)

431 ballots cast for 209 nominees, Finalists range 28 to 95

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

  • Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Legendary Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • Flow, screenplay by Gints Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža, directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Well Studio)
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, screenplay by George Miller and Nick Lathouris, directed by George Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  • I Saw the TV Glow, screenplay by Jane Schoenbrun, directed by Jane Schoenbrun (Fruit Tree / Smudge Films / A24)
  • Wicked, screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, directed by Jon M. Chu (Universal Pictures)
  • The Wild Robot, screenplay by Chris Sanders and Peter Brown, directed by Chris Sanders (DreamWorks Animation)

610 ballots cast for 217 nominees, Finalists range 80 to 219

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

  • Fallout: “The Beginning” written by Gursimran Sandhu, directed by Wayne Che Yip (Amazon Prime Video)
  • Agatha All Along: “Death’s Hand in Mine” written by Gia King & Cameron Squires, directed by Jac Schaeffer (Marvel, Disney+)
  • Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” written by Russell T  Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: “Fissure Quest” created by Mike McMahan and written by Lauren McGuire based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Brandon Williams (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation” created and written by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Megan Lloyd (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
  • Doctor Who: “73 Yards” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)

451 ballots cast for 302 nominees, Finalists range 31 to 59

BEST GAME OR INTERACTIVE WORK

  • Caves of Qud, co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat; contributors Nick DeCapua, Corey Frang, Craig Hamilton, Autumn McDonell, Bastia Rosen, Caelyn Sandel, Samuel Wilson (Freehold Games); sound design A Shell in the Pit; publisher Kitfox Games
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard produced by BioWare
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom produced by Nintendo
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes produced by Simogo
  • Tactical Breach Wizards developed by Suspicious Developments
  • 1000xRESIST developed by sunset visitor 斜陽過客, published by Fellow Traveller

298 ballots cast for 187 nominees, Finalists range 19 to 34

BEST EDITOR SHORT FORM

  • Scott H. Andrews
  • Jennifer Brozek
  • Neil Clarke
  • Jonathan Strahan
  • Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
  • Sheila Williams

322 ballots cast for 165 nominees, Finalists range 28 to 80

BEST EDITOR LONG FORM

  • Carl Engle-Laird
  • Ali Fisher
  • Lee Harris
  • David Thomas Moore
  • Diana M. Pho
  • Stephanie Stein

162 ballots cast for 89 nominees, Finalists range 15 to 40

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

  • Micaela Alcaino
  • Audrey Benjaminsen
  • Rovina Cai
  • Maurizio Manzieri
  • Tran Nguyen
  • Alyssa Winans

214 ballots cast for 209 nominees, Finalists range 14 to 37

BEST SEMIPROZINE

  • The Deadlands, publisher Sean Markey; editors E. Catherine Tobler, Nicasio Andres Reed, David Gilmore, Laura Blackwell, Annika Barranti Klein; proofreader Josephine Stewart; columnist Amanda Downum; art and design Cory Skerry, Christine M. Scott; social media Felicia Martínez; assistant Shana Du Bois.
  • Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes, assistant editors Premee Mohamed and Kevin Wabaunsee, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht; and the entire Escape Pod team
  • FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, publisher and executive editor DaVaun Sanders, poetry editor B. Sharise Moore, art director Christian Ivey, acquiring editors Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Egbiameje Omole,Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson, Tonya R. Moore, sponsor coordinator Nelson Rolon
  • khōréō – produced by Zhui Ning Chang, Aleksandra Hill, Danai Christopoulou, Isabella Kestermann, Kanika Agrawal, Sachiko Ragosta, Lian Xia Rose, Jenelle DeCosta, Melissa Ren, Elaine Ho, Ambi Sun, Cyrus Chin, Nivair H. Gabriel, Jeané Ridges, Lilivette Domínguez, Isaree Thatchaichawalit, Jei D. Marcade, M. L. Krishnan, Ysabella Maglanque, Aaron Voigt, Adialyz Del Valle Berríos, Adil Mian, Akilah White, Alexandra Millatmal, Anselma Widha Prihandita, E. Broderick, K. S. Walker, Katarzyna Nowacka, Katie McIvor, Kelsea Yu, Lynn D. Jung, Madeleine Vigneron, Marie Croke, Merulai Femi, Phoebe Low, S. R. Westvik, Sanjna Bhartiya, Sara Messenger, Sophia Uy, Tina Zhu, Yuvashri Harish, Zohar Jacobs
  • Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective 
  • Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.

334 ballots cast for 94 nominees, Finalists range 38 to 108

BEST FANZINE

  • Ancillary Review of Books, editors Jake Casella Brookins, Zachary Gillan, Lane Gillespie, Misha Grifka Wander, Gareth A. Reeves, Bianca Skrinyár, Cynthia Zhang
  • Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon
  • The Full Lid, written by Alasdair Stuart and edited by Marguerite Kenner
  • Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice L. Newman, associate writers Cora Buhlert, Jessica Holmes, Kerrie Dougherty, Kris Vyas-Myall, and Natalie Devitt, and the rest of the Journey team
  • Journey Planet, edited by Allison Hartman Adams, Amanda Wakaruk, Ann Gry, Jean Martin, Sara Felix, Sarah Gulde, Chuck Serface, David Ferguson, Olav Rokne, Paul Weimer, Steven H Silver, Christopher J. Garcia and James Bacon
  • Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk

243 ballots cast for 77 nominees, Finalists range 25 to 67

BEST FANCAST

  • The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, producer Jonathan Strahan
  • Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
  • Hugo, Girl!, presented by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
  • Hugos There, presented by Seth Heasley
  • A Meal of Thorns, presented by Jake Casella Brookins
  • Worldbuilding for Masochists, presented by Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris and Natania Barron

376 ballots cast for 197 nominees, Finalists range 24 to 64

BEST FAN WRITER

  • Camestros Felapton
  • Abigail Nussbaum
  • Roseanna Pendlebury
  • Jason Sanford
  • Alasdair Stuart
  • Örjan Westin

329 ballots cast for 158 nominees, Finalists range 27 to 62

BEST FAN ARTIST

  • Iain J. Clark
  • Sara Felix
  • Meg Frank
  • Michelle Morrell
  • Alison Scott
  • España Sheriff

186 ballots cast for 120 nominees, Finalists range 16 to 37

BEST POEM

  • Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
  • “Ever Noir” by Mari Ness (Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 16, July 2024)
  • “there are no taxis for the dead” by Angela Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
  • “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, September 2024)
  • “We Drink Lava” by Ai Jiang (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 56)
  • “Your Visiting Dragon” by Devan Barlow (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)

219 ballots cast for 266 nominees, Finalists range 11 to 26

LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT  BOOK

  • The Feast Makers by H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
  • Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao (Tundra Books)
  • The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
  • Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte Press)
  • Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
  • So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

268 ballots cast for 175 nominees, Finalists range 18 to 52

ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

  • Moniquill Blackgoose (2nd year of eligibility)
  • Bethany Jacobs (2nd year of eligibility)
  • Hannah Kaner (2nd year of eligibility)
  • Angela Liu (2nd year of eligibility)
  • Jared Pechaček (1st year of eligibility)
  • Tia Tashiro (2nd year of eligibility)

341 ballots cast for 168 nominees, Finalists range 28 to 96

NOMINEES RULED INELIGIBLE. The following nominees received enough votes to qualify for the final ballot, but were found to be ineligible:

  • Best Series: The Singing Hills Cycle, by Nghi Vo (fewer than 240,000 words in total)
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Dune, the Musical (first performed in 2023)

DECLINED NOMINATION. The following nominees received enough votes to qualify for the final ballot, but declined nomination:

  • Lodestar Award: Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
  • Best Semiprozine: Beneath Ceaseless Skies

STATISTICAL NOTE. In three different categories — Best Novella, Best Related Work and Best Professional Artist — the same total number of total nominees received nominating votes.

HUGO AWARD BASE DESIGNER. Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced that the Hugo Awards Base will be designed by Joy Alyssa Day, a professional glass sculpture artist. Joy specializes in blown glass sculptures that capture the awe and beautifulness of space. Joy, with her partner BJ, have previously designed the Hugo Awards base for LonCon in 2014.

Joy lived for many years in the Pacific Northwest, and it holds a place dear to her. She says, “I began going to conventions with my parents at the young age of 14, and have always loved the community of fandom, from small, local cons, to the Worldcon level. To be able to use my artwork to honor those who help bring the fans together is a great gift. Having lived in the Pacific Northwest for a number of years, I have loved the beauty of the land, and the connection to the fandom there, my friends. It was natural to want to continue to be a part of that fandom’s history, and I’m so happy to be chosen.”  Examples of Joy’s sculptures can be found at her website, GlassSculpture.

Questions about the Hugo Awards process may be directed to hugo-help@seattlein2025.org

[Based on a press release.]

Update 04/07/2025: Today Hugo Administrator Nicholas Whyte issued a correction. The correct number of total votes is 1,338.

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60 thoughts on “Seattle Worldcon 2025 Hugo Award Finalists”

  5. It’s spelled “Amanda Wakaruk” in my post under Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog. Which is the same way you spell it in your comment. (Does it appear anywhere else?)

  6. Congratulations to all the finalists. Let the frenzied reading commence!

  7. @Mike
    Amanda Wakaruk’s name is misspelled in the Team Journey Planet listing.

    Also congratulations to all the finalists!

  8. Amanda’s name appears twice and is misspelled in the Journey Planet listing:

    Journey Planet, edited by Allison Hartman Adams, Amanda Wakurak, Ann Gry, Jean Martin, Sara Felix, Sarah Gulde, Chuck Serface, David Ferguson, Olav Rokne, Paul Weimer, Steven H Silver, Christopher J. Garcia and James Bacon

    Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk

  10. I am so excited for this year’s Worldcon and these nominees. This is my first time attending in person, though I’ve been voting and nominating since 2015 when I found out I could vote (thanks puppies!). I went into reading short story nominees with no preconceived notions. I read them all with curiosity, and was not impressed by sad nominees. I also started reading File 77 around this time and have discovered so much great reading. Thank you guys. I would not be attending instead of just lurking without this site.

  11. Mike Glyer on April 6, 2025 at 1:05 pm said:
    It’s spelled “Amanda Wakaruk” in my post under Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog. Which is the same way you spell it in your comment. (Does it appear anywhere else?)

    Yeah. She’s double nominated — and it’s spelled two ways, the one in the Journey Planet listing is misspelled.

    I really love this shortlist. Especially the fiction works. What absolute riches of SFF artistry are on display this year.

    Not a big fuss.

  13. Congrats to all the nominees! Am stoked that Caves of Qud, Tactical Breach Wizards and 1000xRESIST made the list for Game or Interactive Work.

    As good as the choices for Best Novella are, I HAVE seen some discontent over all of them coming from either Tor itself or an imprint of Tor. This isn’t the first time this has happened in the category, either. I’m curious at the frequency of this (I know Tor’s done a fair bit of advertising with their novellas and initiatives like the Tor.com Novella Program, so it may just be that they have the most visibility), and if there’s a way to, perhaps, diversify the category going into the future.

  14. @N
    It’s because there aren’t many sources for novellas. It may also be that people can’t find those other sources. (Good luck finding a news stand with SF mags!)

  15. @P J
    I can’t speak on novellas published in magazines, but I’d like to think venues like the Spreadsheet of Doom have done an admirable job in highlighting standalone novellas from plenty of other publishers (though in that example, suggestions are crowdsourced). I’m wondering if someone should do a separate dedicated list/signal boost for novellas in this day and age.

  16. I am shocked and delighted that two of my nominations made the finalist ballot (Bethany Jacobs and Robert Jackson Bennett). I am sooo looking forward to this convention!

  17. Once again, I am HONORED to be a Hugo Awards Finalist, this time with my co-author Jason Sanford for The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion.

    I’d also like to CONGRATULATE all of my fellow 2025 Hugo Award Finalists!

    And lastly, I profusely THANK everyone remembered this very important work of journalism and took the time and effort to nominate Jason and myself.

    GO MARINERS!!!!!

    See You In Seattle,
    Chris B.

  18. Just prowling social media or setting up automated searches for “fantasy novella” “sf novella” *sci fi novella” etc. can bring up a number of authors and indie publishers in past years trying to get the word out the past year who are not Tor affiliated.

    It’s not necessarily incumbent on every reader to do so, but if one wants to vote on the Hugos, certainly it would be nice to see something to indicate the electorate is at least slightly curious what else is out there.

    This is no longer a bug in the awards. For it to happen this often and this lopsided it’s clearly thought of as a feature.

  19. @Kevin
    That’s conspiracy theory. You might want to look at the real world. (Search engines are not the same as availability.)

  20. I am honored that my contribution to the “Be The Change” issue of Journey Planet has, along with the other fine work Journey Planet has done in 2024, has been recognized! Thank you!

  21. @P J
    I think I’m confused at the implication here that works one might come across in a web search are less available than Tor novellas. What does “availability” mean here?

  22. How many nominations per year is too many for it not to be a conspiracy theory?

    How few nominations per year for other publishers for it not to at least be examined to see if there is a bias?

    I’m not saying there is a conspiracy now. I am just curious when it is a good time to examine why this is happening.

  23. I, too, am confused. What is it about Tor novellas that makes them more available than works from any other publisher?

  24. N: We had the very good fortune here that for five years running (2016-2020) JJ put together a “Novellapalooza” listing a bunch of sff novellas with brief reviews and info about where to get them. That was an incredible amount of work — just the kind of thing JJ excelled at. Here’s the link to the last one: https://file770.com/2020-novellapalooza/.

    I would love to do that again if somebody was interested.

  25. N, that publisher is to my knowledge is the only one publishing genre novellas this way, and the price of $11.99 for Nigh Vo’s The Brides of High Hill is certainly quite reasonable. It’s also available from the usual suspects as well.

  26. Reactormag.com is a web site with a lot of content updated daily – people who go there frequently will see announcements of new novellas, and may choose to pick them up. I know other publishers publish novellas, but I don’t have as much motivation to check out their websites on a regular basis to see what’s new. This is similar to how awards work in other categories – winners attract more views, which means their content gets seen by more people who are then likely to nominate them again – positive feedback! (Astounding/Analog got the Hugo for best professional magazine four years in a row, and of the 19 awards in that category, Analog, F&SF and If were the only winners – similarly, Locus was best semiprozine 9 years in a row, and Uncanny won 8 out of 9 years in a row. And fanzine and fan writer used to be even more lopsided).

  27. When was the last time someone has had two works up for Best Novel? … Ever?!?

    Although I’ve read all of the Best Novel nominees except The Ministry of Time, I didn’t nominate any of them because I decided to nominate only “Hugo-worthy books that weren’t getting as much buzz” in this category. Not surprisingly, none of my nominees made it on, but I am VERY happy with the ballot.

  28. When was the last time someone has had two works up for Best Novel? … Ever?!?

    Martha Wells had two novels qualify for Best Novel last year, but she declined one finalist spot.

    But I’m pretty certain no one has been up for two novels and an unrelated series like Adrian Tchaichovsky is.

  29. I don’t know about novels specifically.

    There have been times when somebody had the opportunity to have two works up in the same category, but the author withdrew one so as not to compete against him/herself. Silverberg is one I remember off the top of my head.

    One exception is George R.R. Martin who had two novellas make the ballot in 1981. He left both on the ballot because one was co-authored with Lisa Tuttle.

    Somebody hopefully is speed reading now to find any other examples of people who left both works in contention.

  30. As it turns out my Silverberg memory is about the 1972 Best Novel category.

    He declined the nomination for The World Inside to give his other Hugo nominated novel A Time of Changes a better chance. Nevertheless, Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go won.

  33. “Wicked” is the first ever Hugo (and Nebula) nominated dramatic presentation that I saw in the theater in a sing along version. (At my family’s insistence, but I had a good time) Perhaps the Dune movies might have sold more tickets if their producers had released a sing along version as well:
    “What is this feeling so sudden and new, I knew you were my sandworm when I laid eyes on you…”

  34. Dying Inside and Season of Skulls are both amazing novels. How could Silverberg have chosen one?

    Maybe Tchaikovsky couldn’t decide. I liked Alien Clay a lot (it really is a good primer on his work for the uninitiated) have not yet read Service Model. And the Tyrant Philosophers are brilliant.

  35. In the 2013 Hugo ballot, Seanan McGuire had 2 novelettes on the ballot (along with a novel & novella as Mira Grant, and was part of the winning fancast).

    @Roger, are you familiar with Tom Smith’s song, “Crystal Gayle Killed Frank Herbert”?

  36. @Lis
    I have seen Tom Smith live several times, but I don’t remember that specific song. I was actually thinking of Tom Lehrer’s proposed theme song for the art film version of “Oedipus Rex”.

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  38. Congratulations to all the finalists! I am very excited to begin lots of wonderful reading!

  39. I think that if either of the two 2023 Hugo analyses win, the authors should totally mention McCarty in their acceptance speech since, clearly, their win would have been impossible without him.

  40. On Tor novella availability, they publish novellas in print, so I’m more likely to see them at my library / bookstore. Plus they not only publish some online on Reactor but will make them downloadable, which means I can read them on my e-reader. As my reading mode preferences are print, e-reader, online, this makes Tor novellas more accessible. Plus they’ve been doing it longer so they have more established authors who like writing at this length (Vo, McGuire, Kingfisher etc). I suspect other publishers will catch up, now they realize readers will buy novella length.

    I don’t usually note publisher, but I was curious and of 2024 novella reads, 73% of my reading was from Tor-related imprints, however they only accounted for 66% of my ballot. By contrast for novelette, they accounted for 47% of my reading and 33% of my ballot. So at least for me Tor is under-represented in my Hugo voting!

  41. Congrats to all the nominees! And thanks to File770, i read the Felapton/Jones and Barkley/Sanford pieces when they came out.

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  43. Congrats to all the nominees!

    @N: As good as the choices for Best Novella are, I HAVE seen some discontent over all of them coming from either Tor itself or an imprint of Tor.

    For the last three years, I nominate mostly Analog/Asimov’s/F&SF novellas if they are award-worthy, but with no success. I guess ‘old’ SFF magazines don’t intersect much with Hugo voters today.

    I’m glad that at least Kritzer’s novelette from Asimov’s made it this year

  44. I nominated two Tordotcom novellas that are both finalists and three non-Tor (one Asimov’s, one Clarkesworld, one New Directions) that aren’t. Not really surprised, but it’s disappointing that magazine novellas never get any momentum

  45. Is this the first time the graphic novel category has had no cape stories at all? Or nothing from Marvel/DC?

  46. Very pleased at the quality of the works on the longlist; I’ve not read all of them but the ones I have read are universally excellent, and therefore I think I can safely presume that the rest of them are, too!

    Congratulations, especially, to our Filers on the list; Camestos, Heath, Chris, and of course Oor Wombat!

  47. Congrats to all Finalist exspecially those who read this. I am looking forward to read all that I haven’t yet.

  48. I had two nominees in one category back in the 70s, when my Algol/Starship and Science Fiction Chronicle were both up in SemiProzine. Neither won.

    I’m also not surprised that two paper nominating ballots were received 2 weeks after the deadline. In late February, I mailed a letter from NYC to someone in Michigan. It took 3 weeks to arrive.

  50. Congratulations, Michelle! Those are clever cross-stitch patterns.

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