One week ago, the SFWA announced this year’s finalists for the Nebula Awards – with the proviso that Martha Wells has turned down any honors, saying that she’s already got enough praise for her work, and she wants to open the field for other writers to shine. Because Martha Wells is a class act. I will be at NebulaCon again this year, and as before, I’ll be offering my predictions and opinions on the short stories, novelettes, and hopefully novellas before June.
But, on first blush, what do you think of this lineup? Let me know in the comments!
Nebula Award for Novel
- The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
- Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW, Gollancz)
- Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
Nebula Award for Novella
- The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
- “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Dark Matter Ink)
- Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Nebula Award for Novelette
- “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair”, Renan Bernardo (Samovar 2/23)
- I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
- “The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
- “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon”, Angela Liu (Clarkesworld 6/23)
- “Saturday’s Song”, Wole Talabi (Lightspeed 5/23)
- “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)
Nebula Award for Short Story
- “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P.A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
- “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200”, R.S.A Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23)
- “Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
- “The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
- “Better Living Through Algorithms”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 5/23)
- “Bad Doors”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 1-2/23)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
- The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern, J. Dianne Dotson (Android)
- Liberty’s Daughter, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
- The Ghost Job, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)
Nebula Award for Game Writing
- The Bread Must Rise, Stewart C Baker, James Beamon (Choice of Games)
- Alan Wake II, Sam Lake, Clay Murphy, Tyler Burton Smith, Sinikka Annala (Remedy Entertainment, Epic Games Publishing)
- Ninefox Gambit: Machineries of Empire Roleplaying Game, Yoon Ha Lee, Marie Brennan(Android)
- Dredge, Joel Mason (Black Salt Games, Team 17)
- Chants of Sennaar, Julien Moya, Thomas Panuel (Rundisc, Focus Entertainment)
- Baldur’s Gate 3, Adam Smith, Adrienne Law, Baudelaire Welch, Chrystal Ding, Ella McConnell, Ine Van Hamme, Jan Van Dosselaer, John Corcoran, Kevin VanOrd, Lawrence Schick, Martin Docherty, Rachel Quirke, Ruairí Moore, Sarah Baylus, Stephen Rooney, Swen Vincke (Larian Studios)
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Nimona, Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor, Pamela Ribon, Marc Haimes, Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Keith Bunin, Nate Stevenson (Annapurna Animation, Annapurna Pictures)
- The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin (HBOMax)
- Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach (Warner Bros., Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Michael Gilio, Chris McKay (Paramount Pictures, Entertainment One, Allspark Pictures)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham (Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Avi Arad Productions)
- The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli, Toho Company)
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