2025 Hugo Award Winners Announced

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