2025 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• A New God, Menilik Henry Dyer (Podium)
• Echoes of Earthshine, Mel Harding-Shaw (Coruscate)
• The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry (Hachette)
• Sun God, Andy Southall (Amapur)
• The Sunforge, Sascha Stronach (Simon & Schuster)

Best Youth Novel

• The Moonlight Bridge, Mike Gwyther (Qualia House)
• The Grimmelings, Rachael King (Allen & Unwin)
• The Rarkyn’s Fall, Nikky Lee (Caelestis)
• Migration, Steph Matuku (Huia)
• The Paradise Generation, Sanna Thompson (umop apisdn)

Best Novella or Novelette

• How to Get the Girl (And Not Destroy the World), Marie Cardno (Paper Road)
• Scritch Scratch, The Legend of Teketeke, E.L Julian (self-published)
• Hearth and Holiday, Anna Klein (Bonnetpunk)
• We Who Remain, Nikky Lee (Deadset)
• “Daisy and Maisie, External Hull Maintenance Experts”, Sean Monaghan (Analog 3-4/24)
• “Wildest Skies”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 11-12/24)
• Heartless, H.G. Parry (Subterranean)

Best Short Story

• “Lost Girl”, B.T. Keaton (Dusk: Ironclad Creative)
• “N-spired Learning”, B.T. Keaton (Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans)
• “The Sand Witch’s Sandwhich”, G.B. Ralph (The Law of Consequences)
• “The Next End”, Stevi Sargas (F(r)iction 5/9/24)
• “Trauma Box”, Tabatha Wood (self-published)

Best Collected Work

• Clocks Locks Corpses!: And Other Epic Horror Poems, S. Jayne Bradley (Rookery)
• Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans, Octavia Cade, Melissa Gunn, Cerid Jones, Charlotte Kieft, S. R. Manssen, Gary Nelson, Fin Patiliu, S.J. Pratt, Nicky Taylor & Ink Witch (SpecFicNZ)
• A Night So Dark and Full of Stars, Nikky Lee (Deadset)
• Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, Lee Murray (Cuba)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover art of The Dream Factory, Zak Atea (Huia)
• Cover art of Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans, Melissa Gunn (SpecFicNZ)
• Cover art of Fox Spirit On a Distant Cloud, Kim Lowe (Cuba)
• Cover art of How to Get the Girl (And Not Destroy the World), Laya Mutton-Rogers (Paper Road)
• Cover art of “The Earth Remembers”, Tabatha Wood (Midnight Echo 12/24)

Best Professional Production/Publication

• “Fact, Fiction, and Feeling: Ecological Grief in a Changing World”, Octavia Cade (Clarkesworld 10/24)
• “The Rider”, Phoebe Gittins & David Long (musical composition)
• “The Cyborg Manifucksto”, Alexandra “Sascha” Stronach (bad apple 10/25/24)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• The Bostrom Scenario