Our Awards Book Club closes up shop for 2025 with a final set of rankings, the presentation of an award we made up, and an overview of all the Hugo-nominated short fiction.
Awards Book Club final rankings and Hugo short fiction
Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Scott McNulty, Aleen Simms and Heather Berberet
Show Notes & Links
What Are We Reading?
- Scott: How to Solve Your Own Murder
- Erika: Swordheart, Throne of Glass series specifically Heir of Fire
- Heather: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Aleen: When Women Were Dragons, Lake of Souls
- Jason: The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton, Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
The Incomparable Award
- Service Model (4 first-place votes, 2.0 average placement)
- The Tainted Cup (3.4)
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In (1, 4.0)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call (4.4)
- Alien Clay (5.0)
- The Ministry of Time (5.8)
- Asunder / The Book of Love (tie) (6.4)
- Rakesfall (8.6)
- Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory (9)
The Short Fiction
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)
Novelette
- “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
- “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons)
- “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s)
- “Lake of Souls” by Ann Leckie (in Lake of Souls)
- “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny)
- “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny)
Short Story
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed)
- “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)
- “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny)
- “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny)
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed)
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld)
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