The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer will be announced at the Hugo Award Ceremony in Seattle on Saturday, August 16th.  Here’s how I personally ranked the finalists: Best Novel Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom) Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US, Tor UK)

Nominations for this year’s Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer closed on March 14, 2025.  I submitted my final double-checked no…

The 2024 Hugo Voter Packet is currently available to members of Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, until close of voting Saturday, 20th July 2024, 20:17 GMT (55 years to the minu...

Previously I looked at the Hugo finalists for novel, short fiction, and series.  Next I looked at graphic story, related work, dramatic presentation, and game finalists.  Then I looked at the finalist...

Voting opened yesterday for the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding awards, and it will close at 20:17 GMT on 20 July, the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing to the exact minute. Previously I t...

Previously I took a look at this year’s Hugo finalists for novel, short fiction, and series.  Now I’m finally back to look at graphic story, related work, dramatic presentation, and game finalists. Be...

This is an update to a post I did when The Universe of Xuya was previously a finalist for the Best Series Hugo in 2019. The Universe of Xuya by Aliette de Bodard is one of the Best Series finalists fo...