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 2024 Hugo Awards for best novel, best novella, best novelette and best short story

Finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards were announced in late March 2024. The winners will be announced at Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, in August 2024.

NOVEL
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty, (Harper Voyager)
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh, (Tordotcom, Orbit)
Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor, Tor UK)
Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

NOVELLA
"Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet", He Xi (Adventures in Space)
Mammoths at the Gate, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
"Seeds of Mercury", Wang Jinkang (Adventures in Space)
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor, Titan UK)

NOVELETTE
I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
"Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition", Gu Shi (Clarkesworld Feb 2023)
"Ivy, Angelica, Bay", C. L. Polk (Tor.com 8 Dec 2023)
"On the Fox Roads", Nghi Vo (Tor.com 31 Oct 2023)
"One Man's Treasure", Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2023)
"The Year Without Sunshine", Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2023)

SHORT STORY
"Answerless Journey", Han Song, (Adventures in Space)
"Better Living Through Algorithms", Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
"How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub", P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2023)
"The Mausoleum's Children", Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny May/Jun 2023)
"The Sound of Children Screaming", Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare Oct 2023)
"Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times", Baoshu (Galaxy's Edge Vol.13)