Finalists for 2025 Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced the finalists for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards. This year's awards recognises works published in 2024. The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

FINALISTS:

NOVEL
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

NOVELLA
The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

NOVELETTE
"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video", Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
"Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka", Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
"Another Girl Under the Iron Bell", Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
"What Any Dead Thing Wants", Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
"Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being", A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
"Joanna’s Bodies", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
"Loneliness Universe", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

SHORT STORY
"The Witch Trap", Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
"Five Views of the Planet Tartarus", Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
"Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
"Evan: A Remainder", Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
"The V*mpire", PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
"We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read", Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

Finalists for 2024 Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story

Finalists for the 59th Nebula Awards, which recognizes works published in 2023. The Nebula Awards were presented at the 2024 Nebula Conference Online at the Westin Pasadena and online on Saturday, June 8, 2024.

FINALISTS:

NOVEL
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera, (Tordotcom)
The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang (Tordotcom and Solaris UK)
Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US and Orbit UK)
The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor and Orbit UK)
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW and Gollancz)
Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

NOVELLA
The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
“Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor and Titan UK)
Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE
“A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair”, Renan Bernardo (Samovar Feb 2023)
I am AI, Ai Jiang, (Shortwave)
“The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2023)
“Imagine Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon”, Angela Liu (Clarkesworld Jun 2023)
“Saturday’s Song”, Wole Talabi (Lightspeed May 2023)
“Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2023)

SHORT STORY
“Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P. A. Cornell (Fantasy Oct 2023)
“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200”, R. S. A. Garcia (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2023)
“Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Aug 2023)
“The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare Oct 2023)
“Better Living Through Algorithms”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
“Bad Doors”, John Wiswell (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2023)

Finalists for 2023 Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the finalists for the 2023 Nebula Awards, which recognizes works published in 2022. Winners will be announced at the 58th Annual Nebula Awards ceremony and online on Sunday, May 14, 2023.

NOVEL
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

NOVELLA
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
“Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
I Never Liked You Anyway, Jordan Kurella (Vernacular)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness“, S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld 12/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain“, Natalia Theodoridou (Uncanny 9/22)
“We Built This City“, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld 6/22)

SHORT STORY
“Destiny Delayed“, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Asimov’s 5-6/22)
“Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5-6/22)
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)
“Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
“D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)

Finalists for 2022 Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) announced the finalists for the 57th Annual Nebula Awards, which recognizes works published in 2021. The awards will be presented in a virtual ceremony on Saturday, May 21, 2022, that will stream live as part of the 2022 Nebula Conference Online.

NOVEL
The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
Plague Birds, Jason Sanford (Apex)

NOVELLA
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, Aimee Ogden (Tordotcom)
Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)
The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler (Neon Hemlock)
“The Giants of the Violet Sea”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9–10/21)

NOVELETTE
“O2 Arena”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge 11/21)
“Just Enough Rain”, PH Lee (Giganotosaurus 5/21)
“(emet)”, Lauren Ring (F&SF 7–8/21)
“That Story Isn’t the Story”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 11–12/21)
“Colors of the Immortal Palette”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny 3–4/21)

SHORT STORY
“Mr. Death”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/21)
“Proof by Induction”, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5–6/21)
“Let All the Children Boogie”, Sam J. Miller (Tor.com 1/6/21)
“Laughter Among the Trees”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 2/21)
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3–4/21)
“For Lack of a Bed”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 4/21)