Nebula Awards 2020
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Woodland Hills CA :
May 30, 2020
Eligibility Year: 2019
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 2019
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
Novella
- Winner: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- Catfish Lullaby, A. C. Wise (Broken Eye)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes, with234 (Saga)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
- Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com)
Novelette
- Winner: Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Apr 2019)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2019)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 10 Jul 2019)
- “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 23 Jan 2019)
- “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G. V. Anderson (F&SF Jul/Aug 2019)
Short Story
- Winner: “Give the Family My Love”, A. T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld Feb 2019)
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9 Sep 2019)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2019)
- “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2019)
- “How the Trick Is Done”, A. C. Wise (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2019)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare May 2019)
Game Writing
- Winner: The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde & Chris L'Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)
- Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)
- The Magician's Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
- Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
— Associated Awards —
Winner
- Good Omens: “Hard Times” (Neil Gaiman)
Finalists
- Avengers: Endgame (Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely)
- Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet)
- The Mandalorian: “The Child” (Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland)
- Russian Doll: “The Way Out” (Jon Favreau)
- Watchmen: “A God Walks Into Abar” (Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof)
Winner
- Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)
Finalists
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
- Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
Winner
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