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Credits:

• Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury
• Titles: The 2025 Hugo Novel & Novella List
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Hugo Novella Finalists:
• The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
• Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
• What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
• Hugo Novel Finalists:
• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Clarke Award list
• Paul Kincaid’s Coulorfields
• Roseanna’s “A Path Through the Landscape” for A Reader of Else, plus Paul Kincaid’s “The Books That Made Me” for Through the dark labyrinth
• Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti
• Casella’s idea of a Hugo for Best Translated Work
• Renay's Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom
• Alex Jeffers’s A Mourning Coat
• Lorraine Wilson’s Last to Drown
• The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize
• The Ignyte Awards
• Premee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning Grass
• Vajra Chandraskera’s Rakesfall
• Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage
• Seth Dickinson’s Exordia and The Traitor Baru Cormorant
• Emet North’s In Universes
• Eden Robin’s Remember You Will Die
• Scott Guild's Plastic
• Aliya Whiteley's Three Eight One
• T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel books
• Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons
• Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities and Founders trilogies
• Adrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open Wounds
• Greg Egan
• Charlie Stross's Neptune’s Brood
• Zachary Gillan’s “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”
• Foz Meadow’s A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
• Roseanna's review of Someone To Build A Nest In
• Brad Wright’s Travelers
• Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché’s Prophet
• Roseanna’s Small Press Dispatch column
• Nerds of a Feather