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Edition 60 (2025)

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Winners

15 people
John Wiswell Winner

Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster, is pushed by hostile humans into an unexpected romance. Keeping its body-horror edge, the novel treats chosen family and the difficulty of being loved with humor and warmth.

Can a monster's life make room for love?

320 pages
monstersromancefamilybody horrorhumor
A.D. Sui Winner

Inez, carrying the damage of military service, and Ennis, desperate to end a long war, circle each other in a game of manipulation and attraction. The novella is a sharp contest of tactics that keeps returning to the body, desire, and shifting loyalties.

None of the cards for ending the war are clean.

134 pages
military SFmanipulationwardesirebody
Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being

A physician tries to understand an alien patient while being blocked by medical bureaucracy and the limits of translation. In a place where expert knowledge and administrative systems fail to reach, the effort to truly see the other person becomes the story's center.

Even when understanding is possible, the system is always a little late.

medicinetranslationcross-cultural contactbureaucracyempathy
Isabel J. Kim Winner
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction

Lusi, a child who can talk to ghosts, travels with wizards and dragons in hopes of protecting her family. As a children's fantasy, the book folds fear and loneliness into a story about growth and responsibility.

Seeing ghosts does not have to mean being alone.

206 pages
children's fantasyghostsfamilygrowthmagic
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
Phoebe Barton Winner
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
James Beamon Winner
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
Jingjing Xiao Winner
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
A Death in Hyperspace

A ship intelligence narrates the investigation into a suspicious death aboard a hyperspace transit. By combining mystery with interactive fiction, the piece draws tension and unease from a sealed environment.

The ship itself becomes the narrator as the case unfolds in a closed space.

interactive fictionmysteryspaceshiplocked roomscience fiction
Dune: Part Two

As a sequel built around revenge and political intrigue, the film expands the struggle for power on the desert planet Arrakis. Its scale is visual, but its center remains the weight of religion, prophecy, and the cost of choice.

The desert widens, but the conflict narrows to a smaller and more dangerous core.

science fictionpoliticsprophecyrevengedesert