2025 Hugo Award Winners

Our heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding award winners! The winners are listed here, along with links to this year’s administrator’s report and voting statistics.

2025 Astounding, Lodestar, and Hugo Award Winners

  • Astounding Award
    Moniquill Blackgoose
  • 2025 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
    Sheine Lende, by Darcie Little Badger
  • Best Poem
    “A War of Words,” by Marie Brennan
  • Best Fan Artist
    Sara Felix
  • Best Fan Writer
    Abigail Nussbaum
  • Best Fancast
    Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
  • Best Fanzine
    Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon
  • Best Semiprozine
    Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky
  • Best Professional Artist
    Alyssa Winans
  • Best Editor, Long Form
    Diana M. Pho
  • Best Editor, Short Form
    Neil Clarke
  • Best Game or Interactive Work
    Caves of Qud, Freehold Games
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
    Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation,” created and written by Mike McMahan, directed by Megan Lloyd
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
    Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve
  • Best Related Work
    Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, by Jordan S. Carroll
  • Best Graphic Story or Comic
    Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio
  • Best Series
    Between Earth and Sky, by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • Best Short Story
    “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is,” by Nghi Vo
  • Best Novelette
    “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea,” by Naomi Kritzer
  • Best Novella
    The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler
  • Best Novel
    The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett

Reports

  • v1: Posted August 17, 2025.
  • v2: Posted August 18, 2025.
    • Administrators’ Report: Best Graphic Story or Comic section updated to note that Warp Your Own Way had two nominations in the Best Game or Interactive Work category, not zero.
    • Statistics: Lodestar vote table updated to correct the No Award tally on the first round, from zero to 17.
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