Welcome to our continuing presentation of the Nerds of a Feather 2026 Award Recommendation List. Today will look at Graphic Story, Dramatic Presentation long and short form, and Best Interactive.
As before, we here at nerds are presenting a collective longlist of potential Hugo nominees that we think are worthy of your consideration. These selections represent the spectrum of tastes, tendencies, and predilections found among our group of writers.
And so, this list should not at all be considered comprehensive, even in the remaining categories. Some outstanding works will not make our longlist for the simple reason that we have not seen, read, or played it. We encourage you to think of this as a list of candidates to consider alongside works with which you are already familiar, nothing more and nothing less.
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Nerds of a Feather 2025 Recommendation List Series:
Part 1: Fiction Categories (Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Series, Lodestar Award)
Part 2: Visual Work Categories (Graphic Story, Dramatic Presentation)
Part 4: Institutional Categories (Related Work, Semiprozine, Fanzine, Fancast)
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Graphic Story
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles and Rian Hughes [Image Comics]
Absolute Wonder Woman Volume 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis, Jordie Bellaire [DC Comics]
Drome by Jesse Lonergan, [23rd St.]
Dramatic Presentation Long Form
The Day the Earth Blew Up
Department Q (series)
Frankenstein
Kowloon Generic Romance (series)
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Mickey 17
Murderbot: Season 1 (series)
Zootopia 2
Dramatic Presentation Short Form
Alien: Earth, Episode 6 ("The Fly")
Apocalypse Hotel, Episode 11 ("Wag Your Tail, But Never Wag a Shift")
Creature Commandos, Episode 6 ("Priyatel Skelet")
Creature Commandos, Episode 7 ("A Very Funny Monster")
Doctor Who, Series 15, Episode 2 ("Lux"),
Doctor Who, Series 15, Episode 5 ("The Story & the Engine")
Kowloon Generic Romance, Episode 10
The Mighty Nein, Episode 5 ("Little Spark")
Murderbot, Episode 6 ("Command Feed")
Murderbot, Episode 10 ("The Perimeter")
Pluribus, Episode 1 ("We Is Us")
Severance, Season 2, Episode 4 ("Woe's Hollow")
Severance, Season 2, Episode 10 ("Cold Harbor")
Silo, Series 2, Episode 8 ("The Book of Quinn")
Silo, Series 2, Episode 9 ("The Safeguard")
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3 Episode 7 "What Is Starfleet?"
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3 Episode 8 "Four and a Half Vulcans"
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3 Episode 9 "Terrarium"
Game or Interactive Experience
Battle Suit Aces [Trinket Studios]~
Blue Prince [Dogubomb]
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector [Jump Over The Age]
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [Sandfall Interactive]
Death Stranding 2 [Kojima Productions]
Eternal Strands [Yellow Brick Games]
Hades 2 [Supergiant Games]
Hollow Knight: Silksong [Team Cherry]
Hundred Line: Last Defence Academy [Too Kyo Games, Media.Vision Inc.]
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game [Bryan Bornmueller]
Trails in the Sky: First Chapter [Nihon Falcom]
