2013 Nebula Awards®
Photo by Richard Man
Presented at San José Marriott, San José, California on May 17, 2014
Panels were held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, at times with three panels at the same time. Special Honoree Frank M. Robinson had to cancel his appearance at the last minute and an interview that Robin Wayne Bailey was meant to conduct turned into a panel discussion with Robinson’s friends talking about him. Unfortunately, a series of major communications gaffes meant that Robinson’s award was not announced at the Saturday night ceremony. For the second year in a row, the Nebula Weekend was held at the same time and in adjoining facilities to the Big WOW Comic convention, with many attendees in the same hotel. There was some coordination with several Nebula attendees presenting a panel at Big WOW on Saturday. A technical failure meant slides were not able to be shown at the Ceremony, so the In Memoriam slides and Toastmaster Ellen Klages’s slides were shown by pointing a video camera at a laptop and iPad to varying degrees of success. For the first time, all four Nebula Awards® (as well as the Norton) were presented to women.
Best Novel
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, published by Marian Wood
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, published by Morrow and Headline Review
- Fire With Fire by Charles E. Gannon, published by Baen
- Hild by Nicola Griffith, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Winner: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, published by Orbit US and Orbit UK
- The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata, published by Mythic Island Press LLC
- A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar, published by Small Beer
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, published by Harper
Best Novella
- “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages, published by Tor.com
- Winner: “The Weight of the Sunrise” by Vylar Kaftan, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Annabel Lee” by Nancy Kress, published by Arc Manor and Phoenix Pick
- “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes, published by Tor.com
- “Trial of the Century” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by Hadley Rille Books
- Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, published by Subterranean
Best Novelette
- “Paranormal Romance” by Christopher Barzak, published by Lightspeed Magazine
- Winner: “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard
- “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass” by Alaya Dawn Johnson, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters” by Henry Lien, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu, published by Lightspeed Magazine
- “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Strange Horizons
Best Short Story
- “The Sounds of Old Earth” by Matthew Kressel, published by Lightspeed Magazine
- “Selkie Stories Are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar, published by Strange Horizons
- “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” by Kenneth Schneyer, published by Clockwork Phoenix 4
- Winner: “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Apex Magazine
- “Alive, Alive Oh” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, published by Lightspeed Magazine
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Pacific Rim written by Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro, directed by Guillermo del Toro (Warner Brothers)
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire written by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn, directed by Francis Lawrence (Lionsgate)
- Winner: Gravity written by Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Warner Brothers)
- Europa Report written by Philip Gelatt, directed by Sebastián Cordero (Start Motion Pictures)
- Her written by Spike Jonze, directed by Spike Jonze (Warner Brothers)
- Doctor Who: “The Day of the Doctor” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black, published by Little, Brown and Indigo
- When We Wake by Karen Healey, published by Allen & Unwin and Little, Brown
- Winner: Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson, published by Grand Central
- The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson, published by Levine
- Hero by Alethea Kontis, published by Harcourt
- September Girls by Bennett Madison, published by Harper Teen
- A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty, published by and Levine