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  "description": "SF/F awards season is upon us",
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    "Hugos",
    "Awards",
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    "The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn",
    "The Shadow on the Nest",
    "Wire Mother",
    "The Sack of Burley Cottage",
    "his love's ashes on his tongue",
    "Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything",
    "We, the Fleet",
    "Missing Helen",
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  "textContent": "The award season for the SF/F community is in full swing, and we've already seen the winners for the Bram Stoker, Locus, and Nebula Awards, as well as the nominations for the Hugos. Also, as a bit of a programming note, I've added a new tag, \"Awards\" that'll gather up the coverage here in one place. It's barebones at the moment, but I'll be going back into the archives to add the tag to prior posts soon.\n\nIn the last week or so, conventions and organizations around the world have released their picks for the finalists for their respective awards. Here's a roundup of some of the bigger ones.\n\nFirst, earlier this spring, I did another one of these awards roundups, and it's time for an update. I did a post for the Bram Stoker Awards (linked above) but the other two have issued their results:\n\nThe British Science Fiction Association announced their winners in April:\n\n  * Best Novel:  _When There Are Wolves Again_ by E.J. Swift\n  * Best Shorter Fiction: “The Apologists” by Tade Thompson\n  * Best Short Fiction: “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike” by E.M Faulds\n  * Best Collection:  _Blood in the Bricks_ by Neil Williamson\n  * Best Fiction for Younger Readers:  _Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution_ by Una McCormack\n  * Best Long Non-Fiction:  _Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction_ by Paul Kincaid\n  * Best Short Non-Fiction: “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other” by Eugen Bacon\n  * Best Translated Short Fiction: “Liecraft” by Anita Moskat, translated by Austin Wagner\n  * Best Artwork:  _Fractal Series_ (12 book tessellated cover) by Nick Wells\n  * Best Original Audio Fiction:  _The Dex Legacy Series 3_ by Emily Inkpen\n\n\n\nAnd The L.A. Times selected _Luminous_ by Silvia Park for its winner for the Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction category.\n\n## Sign up for Transfer Orbit\n\nA newsletter about science fiction, reading, and the future\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\nOkay, here are the latest handful of finalists:\n\n* * *\n\n## Ignyte Awards\n\nFirst up, the Ignyte Awards announced their finalists for 2026.\n\nThis award was founded in 2020 alongside FIYAHCON, as an \"attempt to correct representative gaps in traditional spec lit awards and have grown into a coveted and cherished addition to the awards landscape.\" These awards honor the \"vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.\"\n\nHere's a selection of this year's finalists:\n\n### Outstanding Novel: Adult\n\n  *  _A Song of Legends Lost_ by M.H. Ayinde\n  * _Cursed Daughters_ by Oyinkan Braithwaite\n  *  _Motheater_ by Linda H. Codega\n  *  _The Buffalo Hunter Hunter_ by Stephen Graham Jones\n  * _Harmattan Season_ by Tochi Onyebuchi\n\n\n\n### Outstanding Novella\n\n  *  _The Iron Below Remembers_ by Sharang Biswas\n  * _Audition for the Fox_ by Martin Cahill\n  *  _The River Has Roots_ by Amal El-Mohtar\n  * _Psychopomp & Circumstance _by Eden Royce\n  * \"Descent\" by Wole Talabi\n\n\n\n### Outstanding Novelette\n\n  * “Uncertain Sons” by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)\n  * “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue (_Clarkesworld_ 2/25)\n  * “What I Saw Before the War” by Alaya Dawn Johnson (_Reactor_ 1/22/25)\n  * “Human Voices” by Isabel J. Kim (_Lightspeed_ 9/25)\n  * “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak (_Clarkesworld_ 1/25)\n\n\n\n### Outstanding Short Story\n\n  * “Ichthyosis” by M.L. Krishnan (_Fantasy_ 1/2/25)\n  * “Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” by Albert Nkereuwem (_Will This Be a Problem?_ Issue V)\n  * “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” by Aimee Ogden (_Strange Horizons_ 6/16/25)\n  * “Autogas Ferryman” by Champ Wongsatayanont (_Nightmare_ 9/25)\n  * “The Octopus Dreams of Personhood” by Hannah Yang (_Diabolical Plots_ 4/16/25)\n\n\n\nYou can see the full list of finalists here. Anyone can vote in these awards, and you can do that until August 16th here.\n\n* * *\n\n## Arthur C. Clarke Award\n\nNext up, the Arthur C. Clarke Award announced its finalists for this year's award.\n\nThis prize has been handed out annually since 1987, and it honors the best works of science fiction published in the past year, which are selected by a panel of jurors. The winner gets a trophy and cash prize (£2026.00; which started at 2001 and which has risen incrimentally since).\n\nHere are the finalists:\n\n  * _Dungeon Crawler Carl_ by Matt Dinniman\n  *  _The Dream Hotel_ by Laila Lalami\n  *  _Luminous_ by Silvia Park\n  * _There Is No Antimemetics Division_ by qntm\n  * _When There Are Wolves Again_ by E.J. Swift\n  * _The Salt Oracle_ by Lorraine Wilson\n\n\n\nThe winner of this year's award will be announced on Wednesday 12th August 2026.\n\n* * *\n\n## Shirley Jackson Awards\n\nOn the horror and dark fiction front, we have the Shirley Jackson Awards, which announced their finalists for 2025.\n\n**T** hese awards seek to recognize \"the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing\" by honoring \"outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.\" The nominees are selected by a jury of writers, editors, critics and academics.\n\n### Novel\n\n  *  _Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng_ by Kylie Lee Baker\n  *  _How to Fake a Haunting_ by Christa Carmen\n  * _The Lamb_ by Lucy Rose\n  *  _Moonflow_ by Bitter Karella\n  *  _Old Soul_ by Susan Barker\n  * _Witchcraft for Wayward Girls_ by Grady Hendrix\n\n\n\n### Novella\n\n  *  _The Cold House_ by A. G. Slatter\n  * _The Death of Mountains_ by Jordan Kurella\n  * _DuMort_ by Michelle Tang\n  * _The Glass Garden_ by Jessica Lévai\n  * _Psychopomp & Circumstance_ by Eden Royce\n\n\n\n### Novelette\n\n  *  _The Confirmed Bachelors_ by Stephen Volk (Black Shuck Books)\n  * “Emily” by Vanessa Santos (_Make a Home of Me_)\n  * _Letter Slot_ by Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)\n  * “The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker (_Uncanny Magazine_ Issue Sixty-Seven)\n  * “The Severity of Things” by Mo Moshaty (_Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment_)\n\n\n\n### Short Fiction\n\n  * “Bitter Skin” by Kaaron Warren (_Night & Day_)\n  * “Lapse” by Kirsty Logan (_Unquiet Guests_)\n  * “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” by Audrey Zhou (_Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora_)\n  * “Room 24” by Caroline Kepnes (_The End of the World As We Know It_)\n  * “Silver Boots” by Donna Lynch (_HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror_)\n\n\n\nThe winners will be revealed on Saturday, July 11 at Readercon 35 in Burlington, Massachusetts.\n\n* * *\n\n## 2026 Finalists for the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award\n\nNext up, we have the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, which is issued by The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at Kansas University. This prize has been handed out since 1987, and it honors the best short fiction in the prior year.\n\nHere are the finalists:\n\n  * “Six People to Revise You,” J.R. Dawson,  _Uncanny Magazine_ (January 2025)\n  * “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn,” Louise Hughes (_Kaleidotrope_ , September 2025)\n  * “The Shadow on the Nest,” Alaya Dawn Johnson (_Uncanny Magazine_ , September 2025)\n  * “Wire Mother,” Isabel J. Kim (_Clarkesworld_ , September 2025)\n  * “The Sack of Burley Cottage,” Rich Larson (_Reactor_ , June 2025)\n  * “his love's ashes on his tongue,” Monte Lin (_The Deadlands_ , January 2025)\n  * “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything,” Effie Seiberg (_Diabolical Plots_ , May 2025)\n  * “We, the Fleet,” Alex T. Singer (_Clarkesworld_ , May 2025)\n  * “Missing Helen,” Tia Tashiro (_Clarkesworld_ , July 2025)\n  * “Woolly,” Carrie Vaughn,  _Asimov's_ (February 2025)\n\n\n\nThe winner will be announced later in the summer, and will be honored as a guest of honor at the annual Sturgeon Symposium, which will take place on October 15th and 16th.\n\n* * *\n\n## Dragon Awards\n\nNominations for the annual Dragon Awards are now open. This year marks their 10th anniversary – they were founded as the literary award for Atlanta, Georgia's DragonCon in 2016. These awards recognize a broad range of science fiction, fantasy, horror, YA comics, games, literature, movies, and television shows.\n\nThey're nominated and voted upon by attendees and the general public, and voting has since opened for this year's award. (It'll be open through July 12th). The winners will be announced at this year's convention, which will be held between 3rd and 7th.\n\n* * *\n\n## Seiun Awards\n\nAnd finally: Japan's Hellcon has announced the winners of this year's Seiun Awards. This award is the Japanese equivilent of the Hugos, and it's awarded every year to not only Japanese fiction, but also translated works.\n\n### Best Translated Novel\n\n  *  _The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands_ by Sarah Brooks and translated by Yasuko Kawano\n  * **_Babel_ by R.F. Kuang** **and translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa**\n  *  _The Book of Elsewhere_ by China Miéville & Keanu Reeves and translated by Masayuki Uchida & Rei Yasuno\n  * _The Tusks of Extinction_ by Ray Nayler and translated by Hiroshi Kaneko\n  * **_Eversion_ by Alastair Reynolds** **and translated by Naoya Nakahara**\n  *  _Some Desperate Glory_ by Emily Tesh and translated by Hiroshi Kaneko\n  * _The Paradox Hotel_ by Rob Hart and translated by Ken Mogi\n  * _Shambling Towards Hiroshima_ by James Morrow and translated by Masayuki Uchida\n\n\n\n### Best Translated Short Story\n\n  * **“After Zero” by Greg Egan and translated by Makoto Yamagishi (_Hayakawa SF_ 2/25)**\n  * “Hémisphères” by Tristan Garcia and translated by Kei Takahashi\n  * “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachel K. Jones and translated by Chiori Sada (_The Silverfish Notebook_ 8/25)\n  * “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker and translated by Izumi Ichida (_A Place That Once Existed Somewhere)_\n  * “Security Check” by Han Song and translated by Tachihara Touya (_Hayakawa SF_ 10/25)\n  * “Blowout” by Wole Talabi and translated by Masato Naruniwa (_Hayakawa SF_ 12/25)\n\n\n\nHere are the rest of the winners and finalists. The awards will be presented at this year's Hellcon, Japan SF Convention in Oita, Japan, which will be held in July.\n\n* * *\n\nThat's a lot: I'll probably do an update later in the summer for some of these. In the meantime, it's another good list of books and shorter stories to check out.",
  "title": "Even more awards",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-10T19:00:34.853Z"
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