A Meal of Thorns 25 – THE HUGO NOVELS & NOVELLAS with Roseanna Pendlebury
Update: 2025-06-02
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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 <
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