2010 Nebula Awards®
Presented at Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on May 21, 2011
The local Barnes and Noble refused to host a signing, so the coordinators arranged to create a bookstore at the hotel, allowing authors to sell their books through the “store” and also arranging to have books sent in from Ingram for sale. This meant that SFWA was able to make a profit from the sales of books. The bookstore was open throughout the weekend and did booming business during the mass autographing, also held at the hotel on Friday evening. Tours were offered to the Air & Space Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, and the Library of Congress. Panels and workshops ran through the day on Friday and Saturday. Michael Swanwick served as toastmaster with Michael Dirda providing the keynote address. The ceremony was streamed across the internet in real time and there was a viewing party held in New York sponsored by John Ordover.
Best Novel
- The Native Star by M.K. Hobson, published by Spectra
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, published by Orbit US and Orbit UK
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal, published by Tor
- Echo by Jack McDevitt, published by Ace
- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor, published by DAW
- Winner: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis, published by Spectra
Best Novella
- “The Alchemist” by Paolo Bacigalupi, published by Audible and Subterranean
- “Iron Shoes” by J. Kathleen Cheney
- “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” by Ted Chiang, published by Subterranean
- “The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A. Landis, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” by Paul Park, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Winner: “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Subterranean
Best Novelette
- “Map of Seventeen” by Christopher Barzak
- “The Jaguar House, in Shadow” by Aliette de Bodard, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara” by Christopher Kastensmidt, published by Realms of Fantasy
- “Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Pishaach” by Shweta Narayan
- Winner: “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone, published by Analog
- “Stone Wall Truth” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Best Short Story
- “Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro, published by Lightspeed Magazine
- “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar, published by Apex Magazine
- Winner: “How Interesting: A Tiny Man” by Harlan Ellison, published by Realms of Fantasy
- Winner: “Ponies” by Kij Johnson, published by Tor.com
- “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan, published by Lightspeed Magazine
- “Ghosts of New York” by Jennifer Pelland
- “Conditional Love” by Felicity Shoulders, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Toy Story 3 written by Michael Arndt (Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World written by Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright, directed by Edgar Wright (Universal Pictures)
- Doctor Who: “Vincent and the Doctor” written by Richard Curtis, directed by Jonny Campbell (BBC)
- Despicable Me written by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, directed by Pierre Coffin (Universal Pictures)
- How to Train Your Dragon written by William Davies, Dean DeBlois, and Chris Sanders (Paramount Pictures)
- Winner: Inception written by Christopher Nolan, directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner Brothers)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, published by Little, Brown
- Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch, published by Amulet Books
- White Cat by Holly Black, published by Margaret K. McElderry
- A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner, published by Greenwillow Books
- The Boy from Ilysies by Pearl North, published by Tor Teen
- Winner: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld, published by Simon Pulse
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, published by Scholastic Press