Track Changes Nominated for a Hugo Award
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The nominees for the 2025 Hugo award were announced earlier today, and I am pleased to announce that my book, Track Changes: Selected Reviews has been nominated in the Best Related Work category. This category is perennially a bit of a catch-all—my fellow nominees this year include another work of criticism, Jordan S. Carroll’s Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, but also two essays about the vote-counting scandal at the 2023 Hugo awards, a video essay, and a… reddit bingo game? I’m going to have to look into that last one.
In addition, I am also nominated in the Best Fan Writer category, my first time back on this ballot since winning it in 2017.
Also of interest on the Hugo ballot: favorite of the commentariat Adrian Tchaikvosky has two books on the best novel ballot, Alien Clay and Service Model, as well as making an appearance on the best series ballot with the Tyrant Philosophers series. (I reviewed Service Model on my blog.) Crossover hit The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley is another best novel nominee that I’ve reviewed. In other categories, I was pleased to see nominations for the films Flow, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and I Saw the TV Glow, and for the comic book Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way. I also highly recommend the podcast A Meal of Thorns, a bi-weekly book club on genre novels both popular and obscure, which now comes with a Hugo nomination imprimatur.
The winners of this year’s Hugo awards will be voted on by the members of this year’s convention, which will be held in August in Seattle, Washington. A “WSFS Membership” confers non-attending, voting rights, including access to the Hugo voter packet, which includes complimentary copies or samples of the nominated works. As for the ceremony itself, I am still very much on the fence about whether I want to travel to the US right now, and will probably make a final decision later in the month or in early May. In the meantime, I’m very pleased and proud of both of these nominations, and I hope they bring Track Changes—and other publications from Briardene Books, including the forthcoming Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid—to a wider audience.