158: I Am the Worldcon Chair in Avignon

John, Alison and Liz dissect this year’s Hugo Awards finalists!

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Hugo Awards

Best Novel

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Best Novella