Remarks:
Winners:
Jeff VanderMeer, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Ursula Vernon are first-time Nebula winners. This is Nancy Kress's sixth Nebula win (following five others listed below).

Finalists:
These are the first Nebula nominations for Katherine Addison, Daryl Gregory, Cixin Liu, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Sam J. Miller, Ursula Vernon, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Alyssa Wong, and the second nominations for Eugie Foster (who won in 2010 for “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”), Charles E. Gannon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Matthew Kressel, Ann Leckie (who won last year for Ancillary Justice), Sarah Pinsker, M. (Mary) Rickert, and Jeff VanderMeer.

At the other extreme, this is Jack McDevitt’s 18th Nebula nomination, with one prior win for Seeker in 2007; and Nancy Kress’s 15th nomination, with 5 previous wins, for short story “Out of All Them Bright Stars” in 1986, novella “Beggars in Spain” in 1992, novelette “The Flowers of Aulit Prison” in 1998, novella “Fountain of Age” in 2008, and novella After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall in 2013.