Congratulations to all of the Hugo Award winners and nominees! Check the list below for the winning entries and links to all the reviews 2026 Hugo Award Finalists (and Winners!) Best Novel Best Novella Best Novelette Best Short Story Best Series Best Graphic Story or Comic Best Related Work Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Best
“What better time to listen to a story than when the world is about to end?” It’s the last of the main Hugo-nominated fiction entries – just in time for the award ceremony on August 30 – and what a nominee to finish up with! Nnedi Okorafor’s novel is an Afrofuturist, robot apocalypse, wild family
It was an unfortunate truth that in the Venn diagram of ‘qualified to teach magic’ and ‘still alive,’ the overlap consisted almost entirely of people who had always been much too sensible to accidentally get eaten by a demon… “School of Magicians” is one of my favorite story tropes, right up there with “Let Me
Levine Querido is delighted to spotlight author Julie Fiveash and their new debut graphic novel The Froggy Library at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The Froggy Library is a story about grief, Native American heritage, and community archives and librarianship. It tells the story of one important summer in Anura’s life — as they learn about independence and
Diversity in Fantasy Panel Returns to San Diego ComicCon 2026 with Powerhouse Lineup San Diego, CA — July 2026 — San Diego ComicCon 2026 welcomes the return of the acclaimed Diversity in Fantasy panel, taking place on Friday, July 24th, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in Room 09. Now in its fourth year, this
“Your country needs you, Corporal…” Owen Mallory first fell in love with Sir Una Everlasting when he was nine years old. The centuries-old story of the Hero of Dominion comforted him when he was a lonely, shunned child with a broken alcoholic father. Her legend inspired him to join the army and go off to
“We are here, exactly where we should be, at exactly the right moment, because we are the Raven, and we are magnificent.” As the longest of the Hugo-nominated novels, I gave myself an extra week to get through all 643 pages of The Raven Scholar. I shouldn’t have worried, because I finished the whole thing
Really good short stories, or at least the ones I like the most, hold up a mirror to something going on now, and either act as a cautionary tale, or an inspirational one. This year’s Hugo-nominated short stories cover the range from dystopian, to near-dystopian, to utterly weird futuristic situations that everyone except the protagonist
…arguing over what could be causing such irregular, constant, chaotic transmissions. All of us dancing about the question of Life, could it be life? A whole civilization with their radios turned up to top volume, down there in the dark… Like Tchaikovsky’s book Alien Clay, the main character of Shroud and all her colleagues are