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World Fantasy Awards

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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

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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.

Princess Donut. Here is my review of the first in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, if you missed it.

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.

The Hugo Judges Have Chosen

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Get it HERE

On Saturday at Seattle WorldCon, the Hugo Awards judges announced their decision, awarding the prize for best novel to Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup. Go to the Hugo Awards web site for all the short-listed titles in every category. I suppose they’ll post the winners there soon?

If you love mystery novels of the Sherlock-and-Watson odd couple variety, AND you love fantasy, Bennett’s novel is the book for you. See my review of it HERE.

Meanwhile, I’m reading through the list of short-listed nominees for the World Fantasy Awards, but they will not be named until late October. Look for my reviews of all the novels, coming soon. Bennett’s novel is among them!

QUICK ADDENDUM: As of Aug. 17th, my search for “Hugo Awards 2025” on the internet led to–no information on the Hugo site BUT on the Seattle WorldCon site. . . one search engine returned the awards list, and another still hadn’t put up the page with the list, that I could find. This is a bit strange, I think. Is it me? Is it internet enshittification? It may be me. . .😵‍💫