Hugo Awards 2025: Complete list of winners

The 2025 Hugo Awards have arrived, and this year’s selection reflects the breadth and boldness of contemporary speculative fiction. Science fiction’s most prestigious honor—voted on by passionate fans worldwide—crowned Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay as Best Novel, a choice that signals the awards’ ongoing embrace of hard sci-fi concepts wrapped in deeply human storytelling. Beyond the novel category, this year’s winners span an impressive range of formats and voices, from Molly Knox Ostertag’s innovative graphic narrative The Deep Dark to H.A. Clarke’s young adult standout The Feast Makers, demonstrating that the Hugo Awards continue to recognize excellence wherever it appears in speculative fiction.

What’s particularly striking about the 2025 Hugo Awards winners is the breadth of representation across multiple story lengths and publishing forms. Nghi Vo’s novella The Brides of High Hill and Rachael K. Jones’s short story “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” showcase the strength of shorter fiction in the field, while Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky series earns recognition in an increasingly competitive Best Series category. Thomas Ha’s novelette “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” rounds out a fiction slate that feels both innovative and rooted in the traditions that make science fiction and fantasy enduringly powerful. The full scope of this year’s honorees reveals where the genre’s energy is concentrated and which storytellers are shaping its future.

Here’s the complete breakdown of the 2025 Hugo Awards winners: