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The 2025 Galaxy Science Fiction Convention, recently branded as Galaxycon, took place in Chengdu from October 18-21, 2025, drawing China's SF community and an international presence for three days of events centered around the 40th annual Galaxy Awards. Galaxycon was held on the newly developed Chengdu Science and Technology Innovation Ecological Island in the Tianfu New Area, Chengdu's designated high-technology belt. The site was created by Zaha Hadid Architects who …Read More

National Book Tokens have announced the winners of the 2025 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. The awards aim to reflect the truly diverse tastes of real booklovers and the bookshops they love to visit across the UK and Ireland. Winners of genre interest follow.

Young Adult Fiction

• WINNER: Wish You Were Her, Elle McNicoll (First Ink)

• What Happens Online, Nathanael Lessore (Hot Key)
• Skipshock, …Read More

The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is open to submissions from unpublished writers of color based in the UK until March 1, 2026.

The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £850. All writers will also receive mentoring from one of the prize's publishing partners: Bloomsbury, Daphne Press, Del Rey, Gollancz, HarperVoyager, Hodderscape, Orbit UK, …Read More

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• WINNER: Masquerade, O.O. Sangoyomi (Forge)

• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit)
• Fathomfolk, Eliza Chan (Orbit)
• A Shadow Over Haven, David Green (Eerie River)
• The Green Man's War, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard's Tower)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• WINNER: My Darling …Read More

The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 - November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK.

The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Juliet Marillier and Michael Whelan.

The World Fantasy Awards winners are:

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; …Read More

The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

• Universality, Natasha Brown (Faber & Faber)
• Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Alice With a Why, Anna James, illustrated by Matthew Land (HarperCollins)
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (HarperCollins)
• So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell (Vintage)
• The Café at the Edge …Read More

John Clute, co-founder of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, has announced the release of a Substack site associated with the online database, which will host both short free-access posts and longer posts for subscribers. Posts on the site will include essays, news updates, reflections, and more, intended to clock the sf world as it changes, and more particularly how SFE records and honours these changes.

Clute said,

Most of …Read More

The Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) has announced the winners for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary achievement with seven children's book awards. Awards of genre interest include:

Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy

• WINNER: The Headmasters, Mark Morton (Shadowpaw)

• Fledgling, S.K. Ali (Kokila)
• Lockjaw, Matteo L. Cerilli (Tundra)
• Waking the Dead and Other Fun Activities, Casey Lyall (Greenwillow)
• Where the …Read More

Updated 11/3/25: Colette H. Fozard and The Development Center for Chengdu Worldcon, Inc. announced on November 2 that they will begin to reach out to 2023 Hugo Award winners to gather information to deliver trophies.

Updated 10/28/25: Fozard and DCFCW have shared in a press release that DCFCW and Chengdu Worldcon have accepted a commitment of action by Dave McCarty to ship the remaining Hugo trophies, made after he …Read More