Not this year. The 2026 ballot just dropped and the results are unanimous. The fans who vote for the Hugos and the hardcore critics over at Locus Magazine picked the exact same books. And apparently, everyone is currently obsessed with blood and bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy gets laughs with last year’s winner, Emily Tesh. Her book The Incandescent is a magic school story, but she skips the teenage chosen-one trope to focus on the worst job in the universe: the teacher. Tesh is an educator, and she packed the text with real staff-room inside jokes. Her main character is stuck filling out administrative risk assessments and university applications while trying to keep her students from being eaten by a demonic realm.
Adrian Tchaikovsky went the completely opposite direction by getting tired of Earth entirely. For his new book, Shroud, he marooned two corporate contractors on a lightless, high-gravity moon filled with lethal radiation and zero oxygen. Then he introduces the locals. It is brutal, claustrophobic first-contact sci-fi that makes the universe look like a giant death trap.
The absolute longest book on the table belongs to Antonia Hodgson. The Raven Scholar is her first jump into fantasy after writing historical mysteries. It is a 700-page political page turner about seven rivals fighting for a single throne. Someone gets murdered, and the protagonist has to find the killer while being forced to take the dead person's spot in the line of succession.
The ballot is packed with six fan-favorite books that hitting the peak of the genre at the exact same time, and there's no room for internet arguments.
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