Continuing my highlighting of short fiction nominees for the Hugo Awards being presented at the Seattle Worldcon 2025 on Saturday, 16 August.
Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novelette
“Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (8,173 words or about 33 minutes to read), published in Uncanny magazine issue #58, May/June 2024
An amazing metaphor for the loneliness so many feel when they go down the rabbit hole of their digital worlds instead of being with people IRL. Like so many of the stories in Uncanny, this one really gets at what it feels like to have the experience of the protagonist.
