Finalist, Best Novella, 2025
Navigational Entanglements
Aliette de Bodard (opens in a new tab)
The rival clans who guide starships through deadly space each send a junior to hunt down a creature that has escaped it, and two of them fall for each other.
The ballot
- The Tusks of ExtinctionRay NaylerTordotcomWinner
- The Butcher of the ForestPremee MohamedTordotcomRunner-up
- What Feasts at NightT. KingfisherNightfire
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the ChainSofia SamatarTordotcom
- The Brides of High HillNghi VoTordotcom