Presented in May 2019, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are pleased to announce the 2018 Nebula Awards winners, as well as the winners for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The winners were announced at SFWA’s 54th annual Nebula Conference in Los Angeles, CA, which takes place from Thursday, May 16th through Sunday, May 19th at the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills, CA.
Note: Post is being updated as winners are announced.
The winners (in bold) and finalists are as follows:
Novel
- The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)
- Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
- Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
Novella
- Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee (Semper Fi)
- The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
- Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield (Tor.com Publishing)
- Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)
- Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette
- The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
- “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
- “An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
- “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births”, José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18)
- “The Rule of Three”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Future Science Fiction Digest 12/18)
- “Messenger”, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi (Expanding Universe, Volume 4)
Short Story
- “Interview for the End of the World”, Rhett C. Bruno (Bridge Across the Stars)
- “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
- “Going Dark”, Richard Fox (Backblast Area Clear)
- “And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3-4/18)
- “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
- “The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
Game Writing
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)
- The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
- God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog, Orion Walker, and Adam Dolin (Santa Monica Studio/Sony/Interactive Entertainment)
- Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
- The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy” (Written by Megan Amram)
- Black Panther (Written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole)
- A Quiet Place (Screenplay by John Krasinski, Bryan Woods, and Scott Beck)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman)
- Dirty Computer (Written by Janelle Monáe and Chuck Lightning)
- Sorry to Bother You (Written by Boots Riley)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
- Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
- Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi (Rick Riordan Presents)
- A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff (BDL)
- Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
- Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
- Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien (Henry Holt)
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards were presented to Neil Clarke and Nisi Shawl.
The 35th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master honor was presented to William Gibson.
I remember a Nebula Awards in NYC where Neuromancer won Best Novel. 34 years later….
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners.
GETIT KOWAL
The Tea Master and The Detective won! Yay! Congrats to Aliette de Bodard!!!! (which btw, autocorrect keeps trying to turn into “Slow the boats”!?!)
This is the story I’ve been recommending to everyone. I love Sherlock Holmes and this is a great homage.
Now, Aliette, please write more. I’d like to see Long Chou and The Shadow’s Child again.
Sorry, double post
@mamma my description was “Sherlock Holmes, except Watson is a hundred thousand tonnes of retired military assault starship”
(Though of course that undersells a beautiful and brilliant piece of writing – I love all the stories in that world.)
@bmac
Then I owe you a thank you. Thank you! It was that description that made me want to read the story. Good job
I haven’t read the Nebula nominees, being busy reading all of the Hugo nominees. However, having read three of the Hugo nominated novels, the one I liked the best wins the Nebula? That doesn’t portend well for the novels I haven’t read yet.
However, there’s always the possibility that I’ll be surprised by the ones I haven’t read yet.
This does not mean that The Calculating Stars isn’t Hugo level, just that it would be nice if I had to think hard about who gets my number one spot. I’d like to bring back the year my wife and I argued about Doomsday Book vs A Fire Upon The Deep. That was a hard decision.
Congratulations to all the winners. (And to the finalists, too.)
The only one on this list I’ve read is The Poppy War and I honestly didn’t think it was very good.
The only other comment I have is, why is there an episode of a TV series nominated for “Game Writing?”
@mdauben, the TV episode is interactive. On Netflix, you are presented with questions, and you can choose what the protagonist does.