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Nebula Awards Showcase 60 – Brand New and Up-to-date!

Nebula Awards Showcase 60 (ed. Stephen Kotowych) features all the finalist and winning short stories and novelettes from this year’s just-concluded Nebula Awards, Thomas Ha, Angela Liu, Eugenia Triantafyllou, P H Lee, Rachael K. Jones, Isabel J. Kin, Caroline M. Yoachim, A.W. Prihandita, Jennifer Hudak, Christine Hanolsy, Jordan Kurella, and Aimee Ogden, along with a teaser from the winning novella by A.D. Sui.

For the first time ever, SFWA’s Nebula Awards anthology is available on the day after the winners were decided!  Our latest Showcase anthology is available for purchase today, June 9 in print at Bookshop.org and ebook at Amazon.com and, starting June 16, at other online retailers. Celebrate your fellow creators in style, and spread the word where you can!

Our 2025 Nebula Awards Winners

Congratulations to all the winners for our 60th anniversary Nebula Awards®! The finalists and winners were chosen this year by Full, Associate, and Senior members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), from science fiction, fantasy, and related genre works published in 2024. Winners were announced on June 7, 2025 at our 60th Nebula Awards Ceremony in Kansas City, Missouri. Full Results.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)

Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Jingjing Xiao, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)

Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)

SFWA Announces the 60th Annual Nebula Awards® Finalists!

 

March 12, 2025 – The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards®! Our congratulations go out to each and every finalist for the recognition of their excellent works published in 2024. 

The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 7, that will be streamed live as it is held in-person in Kansas City, MO as part of the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference. Winners in each category will be determined by the vote of Full, Associate, and Senior members of SFWA.

Here is the complete list of finalists:

Nebula Award for Novel

Nebula Award for Novella

Nebula Award for Novelette

Nebula Award for Short Story

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Nebula Award for Game Writing

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

 

  • Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” by Russell T. Davies (BBC)
  • Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
  • I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films LLC)
  • KAOS by Charlie Covell, Georgia Christou (Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 by Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
  • Wicked by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)

We look forward to celebrating all the finalists with aspiring and professional creators in the science fiction and fantasy genres at the 2025 Nebula Conference, June 5-8, 2025.

Questions about the awards or the upcoming conference may be directed to the SFWA Events Team at events@sfwa.org.

About the Nebula Awards®

The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by Full, Associate, and Senior members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 2,500 members, among them many of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy.

Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award. The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction was added in 2005, followed by the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation in 2009, and the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in 2018. An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is also published every year.

2025 Service to SFWA Award Announcement: C.J. Lavigne

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce that the 2025 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award will be presented to C.J. Lavigne at the 60th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards® for her outstanding work on behalf of the organization.

C.J. Lavigne is a Canadian SFF writer who first volunteered as a member of the SFWA flight crew (tech support team) at the 2020 Nebulas, when the conference had suddenly gone online for the first time and everyone was still figuring out how to push the videoconferencing buttons. A month later, she offered to help run the weekly writing dates, where she has remained as part of the tech team for the last five years. In 2022, she became co-captain of the flight crew, in which capacity she has helped to run numerous online panels and parties, schedule committee meetups, organize volunteers, answer tech support queries, and maintain the events website. She has worked hard to ensure the Nebula Conference maintains a vibrant, accessible virtual and hybrid presence for any member who can’t attend “in person.”

SFWA President Kate Ristau says, “C.J. confidently and swiftly helped us navigate our transition to online in 2020, and she has continued to lead us forward in virtual spaces, using best practices, and a heck of a lot of kindness. She is focused, supportive, and very knowledgeable. We are lucky to get to work with her.”

SFWA is excited to honor C.J. this year at our conference in Kansas City, and we hope you’ll join in honoring her service to the organization either in person or online during the event.

Photo Credit: Berni Scott

2025 Nebula Conference Announcement!

SFWA is excited to announce that the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference will be held at the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza, in the beautifully transformed downtown core of Kansas City, Missouri.

Join us from June 5 – June 8 for our diamond-year celebration of science fiction, fantasy, and related genre creators around the globe! REGISTER NOW!

If you’re not making use of our massively discounted self-parking rate of $5 per day, hop on the free-to-ride Kansas City StreetCar to visit local sites between conference events and our 60th Annual Nebula Awards Ceremony. The Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza is six miles from the Kansas City Zoo, and ZTrip is available, in addition to Uber, Lyft, and cab services, for all your other local transport needs.

At our fingertips this year are:

  • The Kansas City Power & Light Entertainment District
  • The Kauffman Center of the Performing Arts
  • The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
  • The National WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial
  • The Negro League Baseball Museum
  • The American Jazz Museum
  • River Market and the Crossroads Arts District (via StreetCar)

Or stay in for the whole show! With rooms at $179/night plus tax, and free in-room Wi-Fi when you join Marriott Bonvoy (at no extra cost), there’s plenty to do in this fully modernized and renovated downtown conference hub.

The Main Street Grill at Kansas City Marriott is open all day, and the M.I. Greatroom offers cocktail and lounge space starting at 3 p.m.—or visit the nearby Country Club Plaza, a historic open-air shopping and dining destination at the heart of the city, for your meet-ups with new and old friends in the genre. All guests have free access to a well-equipped fitness center.

All together now!

Celebrate SFWA’s 60th Anniversary with us, at the 2025 Nebula Awards Conference.

When and where is it going down?

Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza (4445 Main Street)

Kansas City, Missouri

June 5 – June 8

Where can I learn more about the hotel?

At the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza website, of course!

Room Rate: $179/night plus tax

Register for the Conference and hotel now!

 

 

At long last, Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 on Kindle

Due to factors beyond SFWA’s control, the Kindle edition of Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, which was published in 2022, has been stuck in Amazon limbo. Until now, that is. This Nebula Showcase covers the nominees and winners from 2017 presented at the 2018 Nebula Awards. The Nebula anthologies have been published continuously since 1966 and feature the very best of science fiction and fantasy short fiction. Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, this year’s anthology includes stories from Nebula Winners Rebecca Roanhorse, Martha Wells, and Kelly Robson as well as finalists Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Richard Bowes, K.M. Szpara, Jonathan Brazee, Sarah Pinsker, Caroline M. Yoachim, Fran Wilde, Matthew Kressel, and Jamie Wahls.

Buy it at Amazon.

Nebula Awards Showcase 56 is here!

 

Nebula Awards Showcase 56 has arrived!  The newest Nebula Showcase is now available at Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and Kobo outlets.  The much-delayed Nebula Awards Showcase 56, containing a selection of Nebula Award winners and nominees presented in 2021. This release is a continuation of the longest-running continuous series of Best-of anthologies in speculative fiction, begun with the publication of Nebula Awards Stories in 1966. With an introduction by past SFWA President Cat Rambo and stories by John Wiswell, Sarah Pinsker, Meg Ellison and many more, this volume represents the beginnings of a change in strategy for the organization that will result in a speed-up of the publication  process.

This and future volumes will be edited by SFWA’s own Publications Committee. These new volumes will be jam-packed with the best stories of the year as chosen by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association with fewer excepts and no filler.

Here’s the table of contents for Nebula Awards Showcase 56:

INTRODUCTION by Cat Rambo

PART ONE ESSAY

CERBERUS IS THE FAMILY DOG: ADAPTING GREEK MYTH IN HADES by Greg Kasavin

THE GOOD PLACE: LIFE, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING by Kelly Robson

PART TWO SHORT STORY

ADVANCED WORD PROBLEMS IN PORTAL MATH by Aimee Picchi

BADASS MOMS OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE by Rae Carson

THE EIGHT-THOUSANDERS by Jason Sanford

A GUIDE FOR WORKING BREEDS by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

MY COUNTRY IS A GHOST by Eugenia Triantafyllou

OPEN HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL by John Wiswell (Nebula Winner: Best Short Story)

PART THREE NOVELETTE

BURN OR THE EPISODIC LIFE OF SAM WELLS AS A SUPER by A. T. Greenblatt

THE PILL by Meg Elison

SHADOW PRISONS by Caroline M. Yoachim

STEPSISTER by Leah Cypess

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE  by Sarah Pinsker (Nebula Winner: Best Novelette)

WHERE YOU LINGER  by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

PART FOUR NOVELLA (Excerpts)

FINNA  by Nino Cipri

THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R.B. Lemberg

IFE-IYOKU, THE TALE OF IMADEYUNUAGBON by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark (Nebula Winner: Best Novella)

RIOT BABY by Tochi Onyebuchi

TOWER OF MUD AND STRAW by Yaroslav Barsukov

PART FIVE NOVEL (Excerpt)

NETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells (Nebula Winner: Best Novel)

PART SIX MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION (Excerpt)

A WIZARD’S GUIDE TO DEFENSIVE BAKING by T. Kingfisher (Winner: Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction)

Contributor Biographies

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