The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards.
The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 8, that will be streamed live as it is held in person in Pasadena, CA, as part of the 2024 Nebula Conference Online. Winners in each category will be determined by the vote of Full, Associate, and Senior members of SFWA.
Author Martha Wells has declined her nomination as a novel finalist this year for System Collapse. In 2022, Wells also declined a nomination for novella and felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community.
Here is the complete list of finalists:
Nebula Award for Novel
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
- The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
- Witch King by Martha Wells
Nebula Award for Novella
- The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
- Linghun by Ai Jiang
- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
- Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
- The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
- Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
Nebula Award for Novelette
- A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair by Renan Bernardo
- I Am AI by Ai Jiang
- The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer
- Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon by Angela Liu
- Saturday’s Song by Wole Talabi
- Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Nebula Award for Short Story
- Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont by P.A. Cornell
- Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 by R.S.A Garcia
- Window Boy by Thomas Ha
- The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones
- Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
- Bad Doors by John Wiswell
See the full list of finalists here.
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