The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are pleased to announce the 2017 Nebula Awards nominees (to be presented in 2018), for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The winners will be announced at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 52nd Annual Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, which takes place from Thursday, May 17th through Sunday, May 20th at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.
The nominees are as follows:
Novel
- Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
- The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit US)
- Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
Novella
- River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
- Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
- “And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
- Barry’s Deal, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)
- All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette
- “Dirty Old Town”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)
- “Weaponized Math”, Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)
- “Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
- “A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)
- “A Human Stain”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)
- “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time”, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)
Short Story
- “Fandom for Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
- “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
- “Utopia, LOL?”, Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons 6/5/17)
- “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
- “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)”, Matthew Kressel (Tor.com 3/15/17)
- “Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Get Out (Written by Jordan Peele)
- The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit” (Written by Michael Schur)
- Logan (Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)
- The Shape of Water (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Written by Rian Johnson)
- Wonder Woman (Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
- Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic Press)
- Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
- The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
- Want, Cindy Pon (Simon Pulse)
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Congrats to all the nominees!
First: Congratulations to all!
Next: interesting that JY Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven got nominated but The Red Threads of Fortune didn’t. I can’t really separate them, they’re two chapters in a big story. But if you haven’t read them yet, do so. And, just found out a third is coming out this summer, yay!
Finally: I want The Good Place: Michael’s Gambit to win on the sheer genius of Ted Danson’s laugh.
Banner year for Fonda Lee with both novels she released last year being nominated – Exo and Jade City. Congrats to her and all the nominees :)
@mammam JY Yang requested that people who liked both novellas please nominate “The Black Tides of Heaven” instead of “The Red Strings of Fate” to avoid splitting their vote, which sounds fair to me. (Both are excellent, and I’m very pleased there’s to be more.)
Well at least there are some new names this year. The awards had been getting pretty incestuous.
@5, I thought The Black Tides of Heaven had some terrible writing choices in it, mainly surrounding the use of plural pronouns to refer to one or both of the genderless twins. I could never tell who was referring to whom, and if there was one or two of them present. It was one of the worst choices I’ve seen in a book. The second book was far better.
@5. Carl R
Thanks, I did not know that
One of my favorite novels from last year seems to be getting overlooked for genre awards everywhere: Elan Mastai’s debut All Our Wrong Todays. It’s also one of the bets time travel stories I’ve read.
Sad to say, but I’ve read none of these. Got some catching up to do, I’d say!
@6, genderless plural pronouns are actually how many non-cisgendered people refer to themselves, including author JY Yang. It wasn’t a writing choice, it’s how they go through life every day.
I’m thinking about what to nominate for short form drama for the Hugos. Michael’s Gambit definitely goes on the list. I don’t know what I’ll do if the final voting comes down to that or World Enough and Time from Doctor Who, both of them were so good.
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The use of they/them as singular pronouns has been a thing for centuries.