The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards. It’s the 60th year of the award, which honors the best of the best in science fiction and fantasy published in the United States in the prior year. This year’s awards honor books published in 2024.
Members of the SFWA vote for their winners among the finalists in each category. Below are the winners and finalists in book-related categories.
Nebula Award for Novel
Winner:
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Finalists:
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Asunder by Kerstin Hall
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Nebula Award for Novella
Winner:
The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui
Finalists:
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Countess by Suzan Palumbo
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Nebula Award for Novelette
Winner:
“Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
Finalists:
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
“Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka” by Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
“Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
“What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
“Joanna’s Bodies” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
“Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)
Nebula Award for Short Story
Winner:
“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
Finalists:
“The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
“Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
“Evan: A Remainder” by Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
“The V*mpire” by PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
“We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Winner:
The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Finalists:
Daydreamer by Rob Cameron
Braided by Leah Cypess
Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed by José Pablo Iriarte
Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee
Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese
The full list of winners and finalists, including those for categories like game writing and dramatic presentation, is available here.
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