Seattle WorldCon 2025 saw Robert Bennett Jackson’s The Tainted Cup take home the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
The 83rd World Science Fiction Convention (Seattle WorldCon 2025) ended on the 17th of August, 2025, with Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding awards for a host of authors across several categories.
The awards are as follows:
- Astounding Award
Moniquill Blackgoose
- 2025 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Sheine Lende, by Darcie Little Badger
- Best Poem
A War of Words, by Marie Brennan
- Best Fan Artist
Sara Felix
- Best Fan Writer
Abigail Nussbaum
- Best Fancast
Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
- Best Fanzine
Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon
- Best Semiprozine
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
- 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 and written by Mike McMahan, directed by Megan Lloyd
- Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve
- Best Related Work
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, by Jordan S. Carroll
- Best Graphic Story or Comic
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio
- Best Series
Between Earth and Sky, by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Best Short Story
“Stitched to Skin Like Family Is,” by Nghi Vo
- Best Novelette
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea,” by Naomi Kritzer
- Best Novella
The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler
- Best Novel
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett
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