The 2025 award for Best Novel goes to one of my own two favorites from the short list, John Wiswell’s wonderful Someone You Can Build a Nest In. What a great choice! See my review of that novel here.

Not only is it an amazing fantasy take on a very real life problem, but it has a sly wit I adored. Favorite quote, as Shesheshen the monster thinks about her new life in a human village:

What the laborers got out of it that kept them from eating the rich, Shesheshen didn’t understand. She was a mere monster.

For more about the 2025 Nebula Awards, including all of the other award-winners, go HERE. I don’t have time in this blog to review the other categories, or read those entries in addition to all the novels I have read this spring, which pains me. I’m sure there are some great reads in the short story and novella categories, and all the rest. I did watch the Ray Bradbury Award winner for best dramatic production, the film Dune: Part Two–I must admit, with mixed feelings.

And now, on to the novels of the Hugo Awards short list . . . with more mixed feelings, since the Hugos, as in other years, are plagued with controversy. Two novels on the Hugos short list were also on the Nebula short list, including Wiswell’s. Watch for my first reviews soon.