Here Are This Year’s Nebula Awards Finalists

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) have announced their list of finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards. It’s the 60th year of the award, which honors the best of the best in science fiction and fantasy published in the United States in the prior year. This year’s awards honor books published in 2024.

Members of the SFWA vote for their winners among the finalists in each category. Below are the finalists in book-related categories, including where readers can find the finalists in categories like short stories and novelettes.

Nebula Award for Novelette

• “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
• “Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka” by Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
• “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
• “What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
• “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
• “Joanna’s Bodies” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
• “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

Nebula Award for Short Story

• “The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
• “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
• “Evan: A Remainder” by Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
• “The V*mpire” by PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
• “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

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The full list of finalists, including those for categories like game writing and dramatic presentation, is available here.

Winners will be announced at the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, June 7. The awards will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person.

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