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Category: fantastic fantasy
World Fantasy Awards
The World Fantasy Awards are coming up soon–winners to be announced on Nov. 2, 2025 at the World Fantasy Convention held this year in Brighton, UK. Have you been reading? I have. The short list:
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)–This novel won the 2025 Hugo Award and was short-listed for the Locus Award.
The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo (Holt; Quercus UK)–a wonderful combination of Chinese folklore and the early 20th century historical conflict between China and Japan.
The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister (Counterpoint; Titan UK)–what IS this thing? Southern/Appalachian Gothic? Magical Realism? Fascinating read.
The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK)–combined Monty Pythonesque and Malory Morte- D’Arthur-esque massive novel about the Arthurian in decline.
The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon)–I’m about to read this! I’m excited!
Latest Hugo Flap–and Dragon Con
Oh, those Hugos! Here is a great rundown on the most recent Hugos dustup, from a wonderful blogger.
Read this blog! I dove deep beyond the post about the Hugos into her post about the 2024 winners of the Dragon award, given at Dragon Con–including the newest book of one of my very favorites, Matt Dinniman. Princess Donut must be so proud. Dinniman’s This Inevitable Ruin, the latest in Dinniman’s hilarious Dungeon Crawler Carl series, won for Best Science Fiction Novel.
ADDENDUM! Another huge favorite of mine, Ian Green’s Extremophile, was short-listed for this award.
NOT TO MENTION. . .another huge fave of mine, Joe Abercrombie, won the best Fantasy novel award for The Devils!
For best SF or Fantasy TV series, they awarded the prize to Andor. Yay! (I’m torn, though. What about Murderbot?)
I haven’t really been following the Dragon Awards or Dragon Con. Now I see I should.
Fantastes 
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