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Jennifer Hudak Jennifer Hudak: The Day of the Sea (HTML) (Audio) (F & SF, July 2023)
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

The 2025 Hugo Awards Nominees

Best Novel

Robert Jackson Bennett Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup (Del Rey, 2024)
Hugo for Best Novel 2025.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Kaliane Bradley Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Avid Reader Press, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay (Orbit, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Tchaikovsky: Service Model (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon: A Sorceress Comes to Call (Tor, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2024.
A novel. As by ‘T. Kingfisher’.

Not freely available online!

John Wiswell John Wiswell: Someone You Can Build a Nest In (DAW, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
Nebula for Best Novel 2024.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Best Novella

Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard: Navigational Entanglements (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Not freely available online!

Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed: The Butcher of the Forest (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

Ray Nayler Ray Nayler: The Tusks of Extinction (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo for Best Novella 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

Sofia Samatar Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon: What Feasts at Night (Nightfire, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.
As by ‘T. Kingfisher’.

Not freely available online!

Nghi Vo Nghi Vo: The Brides of High Hill (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Not freely available online!

Best Novelette

Thomas Ha Thomas Ha: The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video (HTML) (Clarkesworld #212, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published by Clarkesworld Magazine.

Naomi Kritzer Naomi Kritzer: The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea (Asimov's, September 2024)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2025.

Not freely available online!

Ann Leckie Ann Leckie: Lake of Souls (Lake of Souls Collection, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Not freely available online!

Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed: By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars (HTML) (Audio) (Strange Horizons, June 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.

Published by Strange Horizons.

Sarah Pinsker Sarah Pinsker: Signs of Life (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #59, July 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Eugenia Triantafyllou Eugenia Triantafyllou: Loneliness Universe (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #58, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Best Short Story

Rachael K. Jones Rachael K. Jones: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, January 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Lightspeed Magazine.

Isabel J. Kim Isabel J. Kim: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole (HTML) (Audio) (Clarkesworld #209, February 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Clarkesworld Magazine.

Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal: Marginalia (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #56, January 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Arkady Martine Arkady Martine: Three Faces of a Beheading (HTML) (Uncanny Magazine #58, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Nghi Vo Nghi Vo: Stitched to Skin like Family Is (HTML) (Uncanny Magazine #57, March 2024)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2025.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Caroline M. Yoachim Caroline M. Yoachim: We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Lightspeed Magazine.

The 2024 Nebula Awards Ballot

Novels

Yaroslav Barsukov Yaroslav Barsukov: Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory (Caezik, 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Vajra Chandrasekera Vajra Chandrasekera: Rakesfall (Tor.com, 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Kerstin Hall Kerstin Hall: Asunder (Tor.com, 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Kelly Link Kelly Link: The Book of Love (Random House, 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon: A Sorceress Comes to Call (Tor, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2024.
A novel. As by ‘T. Kingfisher’.

Not freely available online!

John Wiswell John Wiswell: Someone You Can Build a Nest In (DAW, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2025.
Nebula for Best Novel 2024.
A novel.

Not freely available online!

Novellas

Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed: The Butcher of the Forest (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

Ray Nayler Ray Nayler: The Tusks of Extinction (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo for Best Novella 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

Suyi Davies Okungbowa Suyi Davies Okungbowa: Lost Ark Dreaming (Tor.com, 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Not freely available online!

Suzan Palumbo Suzan Palumbo: Countess (ECW, 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Not freely available online!

Sofia Samatar Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (Tor.com, 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

A. D. Sui A. D. Sui: The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock, 2024)
Nebula for Best Novella 2024.

Not freely available online!

Novelettes

Thomas Ha Thomas Ha: The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video (HTML) (Clarkesworld #212, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published by Clarkesworld Magazine.

Christine Hanolsy Christine Hanolsy: Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka (HTML) (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #405, April 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Angela Liu Angela Liu: Another Girl Under the Iron Bell (HTML) (Uncanny Magazine #60, September 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Aimee Ogden Aimee Ogden: What Any Dead Thing Wants (HTML) (Psychopomp, February 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

A. W. Prihandita A. W. Prihandita: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being (HTML) (Audio) (Clarkesworld #218, November 2024)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2024.

Published by Clarkesworld Magazine.

Eugenia Triantafyllou Eugenia Triantafyllou: Joanna’s Bodies (HTML) (Psychopomp, January 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.
Isfdb: Title at ISFDB.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Eugenia Triantafyllou Eugenia Triantafyllou: Loneliness Universe (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #58, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2024.

Published by Uncanny Magazine.

Short Stories

Jennifer Hudak Jennifer Hudak: The Witch Trap (LCRW, September 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Not freely available online!

Rachael K. Jones Rachael K. Jones: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, January 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Lightspeed Magazine.

Isabel J. Kim Isabel J. Kim: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole (HTML) (Audio) (Clarkesworld #209, February 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Clarkesworld Magazine.

Jordan Kurella Jordan Kurella: Evan: A Remainder (HTML) (Reactor, January 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Reactor (formerly Tor.com).

P. H. Lee P. H. Lee: The V*mpire (HTML) (Reactor, October 2024)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Reactor (formerly Tor.com).

Caroline M. Yoachim Caroline M. Yoachim: We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, May 2024)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2025.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2024.

Published by Lightspeed Magazine.

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Jennifer Hudak Jennifer Hudak: The Day of the Sea (HTML) (Audio) (F & SF, July 2023)

The 2025 Hugo Awards Nominees

Best Novel

Robert Jackson Bennett Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup (Del Rey, 2024)

Kaliane Bradley Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Avid Reader Press, 2024)

Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay (Orbit, 2024)

Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Tchaikovsky: Service Model (Tor.com, 2024)

Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon: A Sorceress Comes to Call (Tor, 2024)

John Wiswell John Wiswell: Someone You Can Build a Nest In (DAW, 2024)

Best Novella

Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard: Navigational Entanglements (Tor.com, 2024)

Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed: The Butcher of the Forest (Tor.com, 2024)

Ray Nayler Ray Nayler: The Tusks of Extinction (Tor.com, 2024)

Sofia Samatar Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (Tor.com, 2024)

Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon: What Feasts at Night (Nightfire, 2024)

Nghi Vo Nghi Vo: The Brides of High Hill (Tor.com, 2024)

Best Novelette

Thomas Ha Thomas Ha: The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video (HTML) (Clarkesworld #212, May 2024)

Naomi Kritzer Naomi Kritzer: The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea (Asimov's, September 2024)

Ann Leckie Ann Leckie: Lake of Souls (Lake of Souls Collection, 2024)

Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed: By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars (HTML) (Audio) (Strange Horizons, June 2024)

Sarah Pinsker Sarah Pinsker: Signs of Life (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #59, July 2024)

Eugenia Triantafyllou Eugenia Triantafyllou: Loneliness Universe (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #58, May 2024)

Best Short Story

Rachael K. Jones Rachael K. Jones: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, January 2024)

Isabel J. Kim Isabel J. Kim: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole (HTML) (Audio) (Clarkesworld #209, February 2024)

Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal: Marginalia (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #56, January 2024)

Arkady Martine Arkady Martine: Three Faces of a Beheading (HTML) (Uncanny Magazine #58, May 2024)

Nghi Vo Nghi Vo: Stitched to Skin like Family Is (HTML) (Uncanny Magazine #57, March 2024)

Caroline M. Yoachim Caroline M. Yoachim: We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, May 2024)

The 2024 Nebula Awards Ballot

Novels

Yaroslav Barsukov Yaroslav Barsukov: Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory (Caezik, 2024)

Vajra Chandrasekera Vajra Chandrasekera: Rakesfall (Tor.com, 2024)

Kerstin Hall Kerstin Hall: Asunder (Tor.com, 2024)

Kelly Link Kelly Link: The Book of Love (Random House, 2024)

Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon: A Sorceress Comes to Call (Tor, 2024)

John Wiswell John Wiswell: Someone You Can Build a Nest In (DAW, 2024)

Novellas

Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed: The Butcher of the Forest (Tor.com, 2024)

Ray Nayler Ray Nayler: The Tusks of Extinction (Tor.com, 2024)

Suyi Davies Okungbowa Suyi Davies Okungbowa: Lost Ark Dreaming (Tor.com, 2024)

Suzan Palumbo Suzan Palumbo: Countess (ECW, 2024)

Sofia Samatar Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (Tor.com, 2024)

A. D. Sui A. D. Sui: The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock, 2024)

Novelettes

Thomas Ha Thomas Ha: The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video (HTML) (Clarkesworld #212, May 2024)

Christine Hanolsy Christine Hanolsy: Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka (HTML) (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #405, April 2024)

Angela Liu Angela Liu: Another Girl Under the Iron Bell (HTML) (Uncanny Magazine #60, September 2024)

Aimee Ogden Aimee Ogden: What Any Dead Thing Wants (HTML) (Psychopomp, February 2024)

A. W. Prihandita A. W. Prihandita: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being (HTML) (Audio) (Clarkesworld #218, November 2024)

Eugenia Triantafyllou Eugenia Triantafyllou: Joanna’s Bodies (HTML) (Psychopomp, January 2024)

Eugenia Triantafyllou Eugenia Triantafyllou: Loneliness Universe (HTML) (Audio) (Uncanny Magazine #58, May 2024)

Short Stories

Jennifer Hudak Jennifer Hudak: The Witch Trap (LCRW, September 2024)

Rachael K. Jones Rachael K. Jones: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, January 2024)

Isabel J. Kim Isabel J. Kim: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole (HTML) (Audio) (Clarkesworld #209, February 2024)

Jordan Kurella Jordan Kurella: Evan: A Remainder (HTML) (Reactor, January 2024)

P. H. Lee P. H. Lee: The V*mpire (HTML) (Reactor, October 2024)

Caroline M. Yoachim Caroline M. Yoachim: We Will Teach You How To Read | We Will Teach You How To Read (HTML) (Audio) (Lightspeed, May 2024)

P. H. Lee P. H. Lee: The Vmpire (HTML) (Reactor*, October 2024)