{"id":33425,"date":"2025-08-21T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33425"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:46:33","slug":"2025-astounding-lodestar-and-hugo-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33425","title":{"rendered":"2025 Astounding, Lodestar, and Hugo Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-8\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h2>2025 Astounding, Lodestar, and Hugo Award Winners<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"winners\">\n<li><b>Astounding Award<\/b><br \/>\nMoniquill Blackgoose<\/li>\n<li><b>2025 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Sheine Lende<\/cite>, by Darcie Little Badger<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Poem<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cA War of Words,\u201d by Marie Brennan<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Fan Artist<\/b><br \/>\nSara Felix<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Fan Writer<\/b><br \/>\nAbigail Nussbaum<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Fancast<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones<\/cite>, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Fanzine<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Black Nerd Problems<\/cite>, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Semiprozine<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Uncanny Magazine<\/cite>, 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<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Professional Artist<\/b><br \/>\nAlyssa Winans<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Editor, Long Form<\/b><br \/>\nDiana M. Pho<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Editor, Short Form<\/b><br \/>\nNeil Clarke<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Game or Interactive Work<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Caves of Qud<\/cite>, Freehold Games<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Star Trek: Lower Decks<\/cite>: \u201cThe New Next Generation,\u201d created and written by Mike McMahan, directed by Megan Lloyd<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Dune: Part Two<\/cite>, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Related Work<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right<\/cite>, by Jordan S. Carroll<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Graphic Story or Comic<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way<\/cite>, written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Series<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>Between Earth and Sky<\/cite>, by Rebecca Roanhorse<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Short Story<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cStitched to Skin Like Family Is,\u201d by Nghi Vo<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Novelette<\/b><br \/>\n\u201cThe Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea,\u201d by Naomi Kritzer<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Novella<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>The Tusks of Extinction<\/cite>, by Ray Nayler<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Novel<\/b><br \/>\n<cite>The Tainted Cup<\/cite>, by Robert Jackson Bennett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cA War of Words,\u201d by Marie Brennan Best Fan Artist Sara Felix Best Fan Writer Abigail Nussbaum Best Fancast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2025 Astounding, Lodestar, and Hugo Award Winners<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[398],"tags":[1786,932,1785],"class_list":["post-33425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-astounding","tag-hugo","tag-lodestar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33426,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions\/33426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}