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SH@25 Special Episode: A 2025 Hugo Awards Primer

March 3, 2025·41 min·3 clips

Discover how Victor Forna's 'Vermillion' uses poetic prose blocks to map a character's journey across a strange planet.

In this special episode, host Kat Kerbetty interviews fiction and poetry editors from Strange Horizons to discuss 2024 publications eligible for Hugo Awards nominations. They explore topics like AI submissions, editorial tastes, and highlight specific stories and poems with innovative structures and themes such as transness, climate grief, and poetic craft.

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A Hugo-season magazine discussion that turns editorial process into the main event.

Strange Horizons at 25 uses the Hugo nominations deadline to frame a grounded look at what the magazine published in 2024 and how its fiction and poetry desks work.

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You want a ballot primer that sounds like editors thinking out loud.

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