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2025 Hugo Award Winners Announced

Seattle WorldCon 2025 saw Robert Bennett Jackson’s The Tainted Cup take home the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Akinwale
Published on August 21, 2025
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2025 Hugo Award Winners
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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
Written by Akinwale

The Tyrant Overlord. Fantasy buff and avid football fan.

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