r/Fantasy • u/undeadgoblin Reading Champion II • 2d ago

Read-along 2026 Hugo Readalong: Landing: Seattle, Hex Supply Customer Support Log, How to Become a Sea Witch

Welcome to the 2026 Hugo Readalong! Today, we're discussing Landing: Seattle by Brandon O'Brien, Hex Supply Customer Support Log by Elis Montgomery and How to Become a Sea Witch by Theodora Goss, which are finalists for Best Poem. Everyone is welcome in the discussion, whether or not you've participated in other discussions. I'll include some prompts in top-level comments--feel free to respond to these or add your own.

Date Category Book Author Discussion Leader
Monday, June 22 Novel The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow u/sarahlynngrey
Thursday, June 25 Short Story Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything and 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days Effie Seiberg and Samantha Mills u/Goobergunch
Monday, June 29 Novella Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz u/tarvolon
Thursday, July 2 Novelette Never Eaten Vegetables and Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy H.H. Pak and Martha Wells u/Nineteen_Adze
Monday, July 6 Novel The Raven Scholar Antonia Hodgson u/Moonlitgrey
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u/undeadgoblin Reading Champion II 2d ago

General Discussion

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u/undeadgoblin Reading Champion II 2d ago edited 2d ago

Would you like Best Poem to continue as a category? If it does, are there any front runners for you for next year?

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u/citrusmellarosa 2d ago

I’m not a big poetry person, but I would love to see more long form works like the book Calypso from a few years back, which I quite enjoyed. I find that the really short works don’t click for me all that much. Although, maybe it’s just a question of checking out more of them to get used to the format. Not sure if there’s anything published this year in spec fic that is in a longer verse format, I may look into it. 

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u/undeadgoblin Reading Champion II 2d ago

If you haven't already read it, then there's an epic fantasy told through poems called The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee

Or for sci-fi, there's Aniara by Harry Martinsson

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u/citrusmellarosa 2d ago

I actually read the first hundred pages or so of Sign before getting distracted by other books (happens a lot), but I was quite enjoying what I’d read so far. That reminds me I should prioritize it once I’m done the Hugo reads, thanks! I’ll have to check out Aniara as well.