Finalists for 2025 Hugo Awards for best novel, best novella, best novelette and best short story

Finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards were announced in April 2025. The winners will be announced at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 16, 2025. Eligibility Year: 2024

NOVEL
Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre)
Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscope UK)

NOVELLA
The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom; Titan UK) Navigational Enganglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom) The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)

NOVELETTE
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld May 2024)
“By Salt, by Sea, by Light of Stars”, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 9 Jun 2024)
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov's Sep/Oct 2024)
“Lake of Souls”, Ann Leckie (Lake of Souls)
“Loneliness Universe”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny May/Jun 2024)
“Signs of Life”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2024)

SHORT STORY
“Five Views of the Planet Tartarus”, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed Jan 2024)
“Marginalia”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2024)
“Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”, Nghi Vo (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2024)
“Three Faces of a Beheading”, Arkady Martine (Uncanny May/Jun 2024)
“We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed May 2024)
“Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld Feb 2024)