2026 Hugo Award for Best Short Story nominees panel!

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2026 Hugo Award for Best Short Story nominees panel!

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It’s the Hugo shortlist time of year! I’m doing my part (a very small part) by hosting some of my Internet Friends to discuss the 2026 finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story! This was a super quick edit, so it’s perhaps not quite a tight or clean as a typical episode. But it’s always a good experience to talk through the nominees with a bunch of friends.

The stories, in the order in which we cover them:

• “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 63)
• “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223)
• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots, May 16, 2025)
• “Missing Helen” by Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld, Issue 226)
• “Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62)
• “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld, Issue 229)

And here’s where you can find my guests:

• Lisa: blusky @lisajune
• Sarah: mindly.social/configures (mastodon)
• Lori & Amy: @hugogirlpodcast
• Ivor: @tearsofthetinman
• JW: https://eclectictheist.wordpress.com/