This weekend, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has been holding its annual Nebula Awards conference. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s panels, readings, and award presentations have been moved online.
Among this weekend’s events is this year’s Nebula Awards ceremony, which honor the best science fiction and fantasy writing published in 2019.
The winners (in bold) and finalists are as follows:
Novel
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Novella
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
- Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
- Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise (Broken Eye)
Novelette
- Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
- “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
- “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)
Short Story
- “Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)
- “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
- “How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
- Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)
- Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)
Game Writing
- The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Kate Dollarhyde, Paul Kirsch, Chris L’Etoile, Daniel McPhee, Carrie Patel, Nitai Poddar, Marc Soskin, and Megan Starks (Obsidian Entertainment)
- Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
- The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
- Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)
- Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
- Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
- The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)
- Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
- Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards were presented to John Picacio and David Gaughran.
The Kevin J. O’Donnell, Jr., Service to SFWA Award was presented to Julia Rios.
The 35th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master honor was presented to Lois McMaster Bujold.
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Wow, Song for a New Day was really unexpectedly topical, wasn’t it.
@1 Yep, even the predictions last week considered it unlikely to win on that basis.
Well done to all the winners.
Outer Worlds won over Disco Elysium? The story in that game was horrible just in authorial voice and the player voice impacts on the story were pretty weak too. In fact, I would say it had the worst plot of a major RPG in the past few years. Only the companions sort of saved that game, but their stories were so minor.
This is not a good look for Nebula for such a new award.
Congrats to everyone!
This Is How You Lose the Time War was one of my favorites last year.
One of my other favorites, For He Can Creep, didn’t win, but if you haven’t read it yet, go, quickly, read it now (no offense to Cat Rambo, Carpe Glitter was also good)
Outer Worlds over Outer Wilds or Disco Elysium is questionable. Mutazione should have been nominated.
Good Omens; excellent choice.
#4, Walker: Perhaps a few words describing what was good about Disco Elysium, what made you want it to win, and why you think other people should try it, would have been more appropriate? (See comment #5, directly after yours, for how it’s done.)