Nebula Awards 2025
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Kansas City MO :
June 7, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award, SFWA Awards (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 2024
Associated Awards: Ray Bradbury Award, Andre Norton Award, SFWA Grand Master Award, SFWA Awards (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
- Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
- The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
- Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Novella
- Winner: The Dragonfly Gambit, A. D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)
- The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
- Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
- Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
- The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- Winner: “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being”, A. W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld Nov 2024)
- “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell”, Angela Liu (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2024)
- “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld May 2024)
- “Joanna's Bodies”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 1 Jul 2024)
- “Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka”, Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 18 Apr 2924)
- “Loneliness Universe”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny May/Jun 2024)
- “What Any Dead Thing Wants”, Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp Feb 2024)
Short Story
- Winner: “Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld Feb 2024)
- “Evan: A Remainder”, Jordan Kurella (Reactor 31 Jan 2024)
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus”, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed Jan 2024)
- “The V*mpire”, PH Lee (Reactor 23 Oct 2024)
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed May 2024)
- “The Witch Trap”, Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Sep 2024)
Game Writing
- Winner: A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)
- 1000xRESIST, Remy Siu, Pink Li & Conor Wylie (Fellow Traveller Games)
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Hidetaka Miyazaki (From Software)
- The Ghost and the Golem, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games)
- Pacific Drive, Karrie Shao & Paul Dean (Ironwood Studios)
- Restore, Reflect, Retry, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
- Slay the Princess -- The Pristine Cut, Tony Howard-Arias & Abby Howard (Black Tabby Games)
- Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, Jay Dragon, M Veselak, Mercedes Acosta & Lillie J. Harris (Possum Creek Games)
— Associated Awards —
Winner
- Dune: Part Two, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
Finalists
- Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble”, Russell T. Davies (BBC)
- I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films LLC)
- KAOS, Charlie Covell & Georgia Christou (Netflix)
- Star Trek: Lower Deck (Season 5), Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
- Wicked, Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)
Winner
- The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)
Finalists
- Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
- Braided, Leah Cypess (Delacorte)
- Daydreamer, Rob Cameron (Labyrinth Road)
- Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
- Puzzleheart, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
Winner
Infinity Award
- Winner: Frank Herbert
Kevin O'donnell Jr. Service To Sfwa
- Winner: C. J. Lavigne
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
- Winner: Eugen Bacon
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