The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards have been announced! One of the most prestigious honors in fantasy and science fiction was presented on August 16, 2025, during Seattle Worldcon 2025.
Best Novel
Winner: The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)
Finalists:
- Alien Clay – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US, Tor UK)
- The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press, Sceptre)
- Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom)
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell (DAW)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call – T. Kingfisher (Tor)
Best Novella
Winner: The Tusks of Extinction – Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
Finalists:
- The Brides of High Hill – Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- The Butcher of the Forest – Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
- Navigational Entanglements – Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain – Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
- What Feasts at Night – T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
Best Novelette
Winner: “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” – Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s, Sep/Oct 2024)
Finalists:
- “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” – Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, May 2024)
- “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” – Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)
- “Lake of Souls” – Ann Leckie in Lake of Souls (Orbit)
- “Loneliness Universe” – Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny, Issue 58)
- “Signs of Life” – Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny, Issue 59)
Best Short Story
Winner: “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” – Nghi Vo (Uncanny, Issue 57)
Finalists:
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” – Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed, Jan 2024, Issue 164)
- “Marginalia” – Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny, Issue 56)
- “Three Faces of a Beheading” – Arkady Martine (Uncanny, Issue 58)
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” – Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, May 2024, Issue 168)
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” – Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld, Feb 2024)
Best Series
Winner: Between Earth and Sky – Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)
Finalists:
- The Burning Kingdoms – Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- InCryptid – Seanan McGuire (DAW)
- Southern Reach – Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Stormlight Archive – Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
- The Tyrant Philosophers – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
Additional Awards presented at Seattle Worldcon 2025:
- Astounding Award – Moniquill Blackgoose
- Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book – Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger
- Best Poem – “A War of Words,” Marie Brennan
- Best Fan Artist – Sara Felix
- Best Fan Writer – Abigail Nussbaum
- Best Fancast – Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, Emily Tesh & Rebecca Fraimow
- Best Fanzine – Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans & Omar Holmon
- Best Semiprozine – Uncanny Magazine, publishers & editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Best Professional Artist – Alyssa Winans
- Best Editor, Long Form – Diana M. Pho
- Best Editor, Short Form – Neil Clarke
- Best Game or Interactive Work – Caves of Qud, Freehold Games
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form – Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation”, created & written by Mike McMahan, dir. Megan Lloyd
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form – Dune: Part Two, screenplay Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts, dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Best Related Work – Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll
- Best Graphic Story or Comic – Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, script Ryan North, art Chris Fenoglio
