Nebula Awards 2024
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Pasadena CA :
June 8, 2024
Eligibility Year: 2023
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 2023
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
- The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
- Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
Novella
- Winner: “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
- The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
- Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2023)
- I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
- “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon”, Angela Liu (Clarkesworld Jun 2023)
- “Saturday's Song”, Wole Talabi (Lightspeed May 2023)
- “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair”, Renan Bernardo (Samovar Feb 2023)
- “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2023)
Short Story
- Winner: “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200”, R. S. A. Garcia (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2023)
- “Bad Doors”, John Wiswell (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2023)
- “Better Living Through Algorithms”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
- “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P. A. Cornell (Fantasy Oct 2023)
- “The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare Oct 2023)
- “Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Aug 2023)
Game Writing
- Winner: Baldur's Gate 3, Adam Smith, Adrienne Law, Baudelaire Welch, Chrystal Ding, Ella McConnell, Ine Van Hamme, Jan Van Dosselaer, John Corcoran, Kevin VanOrd, Lawrence Schick, Martin Docherty, Rachel Quirke, Ruairķ Moore, Sarah Baylus, Stephen Rooney, Swen Vincke (Larian Studios)
- Alan Wake II, Sam Lake, Tyler Burton Smith & Sinikka Annala (Remedy Entertainment, Epic Games Publishing)
- The Bread Must Rise, Stewart C. Baker & James Beamon (Choice of Games)
- Chants of Sennaar, Julien Moya & Thomas Panuel (Rundisc, Focus Entertainment)
- Dredge, Joel Mason (Black Salt Games, Team 17)
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee & Marie Brennan (Android)
— Associated Awards —
Winner
- Barbie, Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach (Warner Bros., Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment)
Finalists
- The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli, Toho Company)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Michael Gilio & Chris McKay (Paramount Pictures, Entertainment One, Allspark Pictures)
- The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin (HBOMax)
- Nimona, Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor, Pamela Ribon, Marc Haimes, Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Keith Bunin, Nate Stevenson (Annapurna Animation, Annapurna Pictures)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller & Dave Callaham (Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Avi Arad Productions)
Winner
- To Shape a Dragon's Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
Finalists
- The Ghost Job, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)
- The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern, Jendia Gammon, as by J. Dianne Dotson (Android)
- Liberty's Daughter, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
Winner
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