Winner 2025 Philip K. Dick Award

The 2025 Philip K. Dick Award, for work published in 2024, was announced at Norwescon 47 on April 20, 2025, along with a special citation. The award is presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction originally published in paperback form in the United States.


   WINNER
   Time's Agent, Brenda Peynado (Tordotcom)

   with SPECIAL CITATION for
   Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US)

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)

Finalists for 2025 Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced the finalists for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards. This year's awards recognises works published in 2024. The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

FINALISTS:

NOVEL
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

NOVELLA
The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

NOVELETTE
"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video", Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
"Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka", Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
"Another Girl Under the Iron Bell", Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
"What Any Dead Thing Wants", Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
"Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being", A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
"Joanna’s Bodies", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
"Loneliness Universe", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

SHORT STORY
"The Witch Trap", Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
"Five Views of the Planet Tartarus", Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
"Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
"Evan: A Remainder", Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
"The V*mpire", PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
"We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read", Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

Finalists for 2025 Philip K. Dick Award

Finalists for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award, for best original science fiction paperback published in the US in 2024, have been announced. Winners will be announced at Norwescon 47 on April 18, 2025, in SeaTac WA.

Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US)

City of Dancing Gargoyles, Tara Campbell (Santa Fe Writers Project)

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)

Time's Agent, Brenda Peynado (Tordotcom)

Triangulum, Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Rosarium)

Your Utopia: Stories, Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)