2025 Otherwise Award
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psocopteraThe 2025 Otherwise Award has a winner, an honor list, and a long list, here with descriptions or below the cut with my comments.
The 2025 jury members were Eugen Bacon (chair), Andrew Hook, Cheryl S. Ntumy, K. Ibura, and Rebecca Fraimow. We thank each of them for their service!
Winner: Luminous, by Silvia Park.
I had decided not to put this on my to-read list for some reason but maybe I should reconsider?
Honor List:
What a Fish Looks Like, by Syr Hayati Beker (Stelliform Press)
A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic)
Ooh, I've read this one!
The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, by Jessy Randall, illustrated by Kristin DiVona (Gold SF)
Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
I'm in a library queue for this one!
Algarabía, by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf Press)
Long List:
The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow (Tor)
This one is somewhere on my to-read list. I suppose if it makes the Hugo ballot I'll have to bump it up.
“möbius loop”, by Samir Sirk Morató (khōréō)
Interesting short story but was it about gender?
Some Body Like Me, by Lucy Lapinska (Gollancz)
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo (Erewhon). Authors: Esther Alter, Bendi Barrett, Ta-wei Chi (translated by Ariel Chu), Colin Dean, Maya Deane, Dominique Dickey, Katharine Duckett, Meg Elison, Paul Evanby, Aysha U. Farah, Sarah Gailey, Ash Huang, Margaret Killjoy, Wen-yi Lee, Ewen Ma, Jamie McGhee, Sam J. Miller, Aiki Mira (translated by CD Covington), Sunny Moraine, Nat X Ray, Neon Yang, Ramez Yoakeim.
Sounds like a good collection - good author TOC at least!
Boy Island, by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket, 2024)
The Ghost and the Golem, by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games, 2024)
I've played this and it's great, although I always meant to go back and try a couple more routes and never did.
Part Time Girl, by Adriaan Brae (Presses Renaissance Press)
The 2025 jury members were Eugen Bacon (chair), Andrew Hook, Cheryl S. Ntumy, K. Ibura, and Rebecca Fraimow. We thank each of them for their service!
Winner: Luminous, by Silvia Park.
I had decided not to put this on my to-read list for some reason but maybe I should reconsider?
Honor List:
What a Fish Looks Like, by Syr Hayati Beker (Stelliform Press)
A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic)
Ooh, I've read this one!
The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, by Jessy Randall, illustrated by Kristin DiVona (Gold SF)
Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
I'm in a library queue for this one!
Algarabía, by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf Press)
Long List:
The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow (Tor)
This one is somewhere on my to-read list. I suppose if it makes the Hugo ballot I'll have to bump it up.
“möbius loop”, by Samir Sirk Morató (khōréō)
Interesting short story but was it about gender?
Some Body Like Me, by Lucy Lapinska (Gollancz)
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo (Erewhon). Authors: Esther Alter, Bendi Barrett, Ta-wei Chi (translated by Ariel Chu), Colin Dean, Maya Deane, Dominique Dickey, Katharine Duckett, Meg Elison, Paul Evanby, Aysha U. Farah, Sarah Gailey, Ash Huang, Margaret Killjoy, Wen-yi Lee, Ewen Ma, Jamie McGhee, Sam J. Miller, Aiki Mira (translated by CD Covington), Sunny Moraine, Nat X Ray, Neon Yang, Ramez Yoakeim.
Sounds like a good collection - good author TOC at least!
Boy Island, by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket, 2024)
The Ghost and the Golem, by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games, 2024)
I've played this and it's great, although I always meant to go back and try a couple more routes and never did.
Part Time Girl, by Adriaan Brae (Presses Renaissance Press)
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Date: 2026-03-31 08:06 pm (UTC)