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779: Not a Hugo
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 01:12:17
Publish Date: 2025-08-15 15:59:09
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Our Awards Book Club closes up shop for 2025 with a final set of rankings, the presentation of an award we made up, and an overview of all the Hugo-nominated short fiction.

Awards Book Club final rankings and Hugo short fiction

Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Scott McNulty, Aleen Simms and Heather Berberet

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What Are We Reading?

The Incomparable Award

  1. Service Model (4 first-place votes, 2.0 average placement)
  2. The Tainted Cup (3.4)
  3. Someone You Can Build a Nest In (1, 4.0)
  4. A Sorceress Comes to Call (4.4)
  5. Alien Clay (5.0)
  6. The Ministry of Time (5.8)
  7. Asunder / The Book of Love (tie) (6.4)
  8. Rakesfall (8.6)
  9. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory (9)

The Short Fiction

Novella

  • “The Brides of High Hill” by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
  • “The Butcher of the Forest” by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
  • “Navigational Entanglements” by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
  • “The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain” by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
  • “The Tusks of Extinction” by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
  • “What Feasts at Night” by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)

Novelette

Short Story

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