Preliminary #HugoAward statistics released:

https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/winners-and-stats/

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Is anyone else puzzled by how the #HugoAwards2025 happened several hours ago already, but there's nothing on the official Seattle Worldcon social media or website about the winners (I had to look at Locus's list to find who got them)?

#worldcon2025

Hugo Award reading/watching progress:


Best Novel 6/6 ✅

Best Novella 6/6 ✅

Best Novelette 6/6 ✅

Best Short Story 6/6 ✅

Best Graphic Story 6/6 ✅

Best Poem 6/6 ✅ 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form 5/6

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form 5/6
Best Semiprozine 1/6


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Hugo Award reading/watching progress:

Best Novel 5/6
Best Novella 6/6 ✅
Best Novelette 6/6 ✅
Best Short Story 6/6 ✅
Best Graphic Story 5/6
Best Poem 6/6 ✅
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form 5/6
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form 5/6

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Hugo Award reading/watching progress:

Best Novel 5/6
Best Novella 6/6 ✅
Best Novelette 6/6 ✅
Best Short Story 6/6 ✅
Best Graphic Story 3/6
Best Poem 6/6 ✅
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form 3/6
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form 5/6

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Hugo Award reading progress:

Best Novel 5/6
Best Novella 6/6 ✅
Best Novelette 6/6 ✅
Best Short Story 6/6 ✅
Best Graphic Story 3/6
Best Poem 5/6

#hugoawards #hugoawards2025

Hugo Award reading progress:

Best Novel 3/6
Best Novella 6/6 ✅
Best Novelette 6/6 ✅
Best Short Story 6/6 ✅
Best Graphic Story 2/6
Best Poem 5/6

Zajdel Award reading progress:
Best Novel 3/6
Best Short Story 3/4

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Now I've caught up with the rest of the non-series written word categories for the Hugos, some thoughts. (I thought all the Short Stories were extremely close to each other)

Novelette:

"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" - of all the works in this category, this felt most like a warning of the future. It's quite stylised, and it didn't quite grab me the way some others did, but it has some chilling moments.
"By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars" - a story about loss, what teaching is, and growing old I guess. I did like this, but uniquely amongst the Novelettes I felt this would have been better at Novella length.
"The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea" - I always just like the way Kritzer writes, and as an academic there's a bit that outraged me deeply (as intended)... but it also does telegraph itself a little too much.
"Lake of Souls" - I'm not sure this is the strongest work in the collection this is from even... but Leckie is good, and there's some unexpected twists along with the worldbuilding.
"Loneliness Universe" - horror that takes a little *too* long to get going, and feels like it's trying to make a metaphorical point that doesn't quite hit.
"Signs of Life" - I really did enjoy this, especially the "homely horror" aspects.

I think for me this is probably going to be between The Four Sisters... and Signs of Life (and I didn't expect to not have the Leckie in that top 2!).

next, Novella.

I just read “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” and I will be very surprised and disappointed if it doesn't win this year's Best Short Story Hugo award. It's a riff on and extension of Ursula Le Guin's classic story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", and it is absolutely brilliant.

File 770 has the Hugo nominees with links to the ones that can be read online.

https://file770.com/2025-hugo-finalists-where-to-read-complete-works-or-samples-for-free/

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