The finalists for the 60th Nebula Awards, which are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, were announced yesterday in a live ceremony on YouTube. The awards given this year recognize work published in 2024.
Winners will be announced at the 2025 Nebula Conference, which will take place June 5-8 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Congratulations to all the finalists!
Best Novel
- Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (CaezikSF & Fantasy)
- Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- Asunder by Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- The Book of Love by Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
Best Novella
- The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
- The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
- Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
- Countess by Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
- The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)
Best Novelette
- “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
- “Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka” by Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu (Uncanny)
- “What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp)
- “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A. W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld)
- “Joanna’s Bodies” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp)
- “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny)
Best Short Story
- “The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet)
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed Magazine)
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld)
- “Evan: A Remainder” by Jordan Kurella (Reactor)
- “The V*mpire” by PH Lee (Reactor)
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine)
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- KAOS written by Charlie Covell and Georgia Christou (Netflix)
- Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” written by Russell T. Davies (BBC)
- Wicked written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)
- Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 written by Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
- I Saw the TV Glow written by Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films)
- Dune: Part Two written by Jon Spaights and Denis Villeneuve (Warner Brothers)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Daydreamer by Rob Cameron (Labyrinth Road)
- Braided by Leah Cypess (Delacorte)
- Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed by José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
- Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
- Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee, (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
- The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)
Best Game Writing
- A Death in Hyperspace by Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, and Marc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)
- Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Jay Dragon, M Veselak, Mercedes Acosta, and Lillie J. Harris (Possum Creek Games)
- Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut by Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard (Black Tabby Games)
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree by Hidetaka Miyazaki (FromSoftware)
- The Ghost and the Golem by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games)
- Pacific Drive by Karrie Shao and Paul Dean ( Ironwood Studios)
- 1000xRESIST by Remy Siu, Pinki Li, and Conor Wylie (Fellow Traveler Games)
- Restore, Reflect, Retry by Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
