Here Are This Year’s Nebula Awards Finalists
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) have announced their list of finalists for 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 finalists in book-related categories, including where readers can find the finalists in categories like short stories and novelettes.
Nebula Award for Novel
- 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
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Nebula Award for Novella
- 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
- The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui
Nebula Award for Novelette
- “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)
- “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
- “Joanna’s Bodies” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
- “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)
Nebula Award for Short Story
- “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)
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
- “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
- 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 Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
The full list of finalists, including those for categories like game writing and dramatic presentation, is available here.
Winners will be announced at the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, June 7. The awards will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person.
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