Bennett, Roanhorse Win 2025 Hugo Awards

The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards were announced on Saturday, August 16 at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention. Worldcon members cast 1962 final ballots over 21 categories, with winners determined through a ranked-choice voting process.

Among this years notable winners were Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup (Del Rey) for best novel and Ray Nayler’s The Tusks of Extinction (Tordotcom) for best novella. Rebecca Roanhorse’s trilogy Between Earth and Sky (Saga Press), which concluded in June 2024, was awarded best series. This year’s awards included a special category, Best Poem, selected by members, which went to Marie Brennan’s “A War of Words” (Strange Horizons).

Two named awards were also presented at the ceremony. The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book was given to Darcie Little Badger for Sheine Lende (Levine Querido), and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer went to Moniquill Blackgoose.

Alongside the winner announcement, the Hugo Awards subcommittee published an administrators report and a voting statistics report breaking down their counting process. The transparency measures were implemented after the 2023 awards, when accusations of censorship called their integrity into question. Last year’s Hugos were again marked by controversy, this time involving voter fraud. No evidence of fraud has been found in the 2025 process, according to the subcommittee.