Nebula Awards 2021
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Online :
June 5, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 2020
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
- The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Midnight Bargain, C. L. Polk (Erewhon)
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
Novella
- Winner: Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
- Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
- The Four Profound Weaves, R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Dominion)
- Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- “Tower of Mud and Straw”, Yaroslav Barsukov (Metaphorosis 25 Sep 2020)
Novelette
- Winner: “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 17 Jun 2020)
- “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny May/Jun 2020)
- “The Pill”, Meg Elison (Big Girl)
- “Shadow Prisons”, Caroline M. Yoachim (serialized in the Dystopian Triptych series as “The Shadow Prison Experiment”, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind”, “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma”)
- “Stepsister”, Leah Cypess (F&SF May/Jun 2020)
- “When You Linger”, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2020)
Short Story
- Winner: “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 15 Jun 2020)
- “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math”, Aimee Picchi (Daily Science Fiction 3 Jan 2020)
- “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse”, Rae Carson (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2020)
- “The Eight-Thousanders”, Jason Sanford (Asimov's Sep/Oct 2020)
- “A Guide for Working Breeds”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Made to Order)
- “My Country Is a Ghost”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2020)
Game Writing
- Winner: Hades, Greg Kasavin (Supergiant)
- Blaseball, Stephen Bell, Joel Clark & Sam Rosenthal (The Game Band)
- Kentucky Route Zero, Jake Elliott (Cardboard Computer)
- The Luminous Underground, Phoebe Barton (Choice of Games)
- Scents & Semiosis, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson & Yoon Ha Lee (Self)
- Spiritfarer, Nicolas Guérin, Maxime Monast & Alex Tommi-Morin (Thunder Lotus Games)
— Associated Awards —
Winner
- The Good Place: “Whenever You're Ready” (by Michael Schur, published by NBC and Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal)
Finalists
- Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (by Christina Hodson, published by Warner Bros. Television and Clubhouse Pictures/DC Entertainment/Kroll & Co. Entertainment/LuckyChap Entertainment)
- The Expanse: “Gaugamela” (by Dan Nowak, published by Amazon Prime and Alcon Entertainment/Alcon Television Group/Amazon Studios/Hivemind/Just So)
- Lovecraft Country (Season 1, by Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Kevin Lau, Wes Taylor, Ihuoma Ofordire, Jonathan I. Kidd, and Sonya Winton-Odamtten, published by HBO Max and Bad Robot/Monkeypaw Productions/Warner Bros.Television)
- The Mandalorian: “The Tragedy” (by Jon Favreau, published by Disney+ and Golem Creations/Lucasfilm)
- The Old Guard ( by Greg Rucka, published by Netflix and Skydance Media/Denver and Delilah Productions/Marc Evans Productions)
Winner
- A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
Finalists
- Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- A Game of fox & Squirrels, Jenn Reese (Holt)
- Raybearer, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
- Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar (HarperTeen)
Winner
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