2014 Nebula Awards®
Photo by Richard Man
Presented at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on June 6, 2015.
This marked the Fiftieth Anniversary of SFWA. Programming included the second day-long ISBA/SFWA Legal Symposium on Protecting and Preserving Author Rights, and a Self-Publication Workshop as well as three tracks of heavily pro-oriented panels. Nick Offerman was a controversial Toastmaster, and although many attendees enjoyed his bits, some were not amused. Tours were offered to Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab. “Worldbuilders of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” a portrait project about the people who create these wonderful worlds, photographed on large format film, started at the 2015 Nebula weekend. More photos by Keith Stokes.
Best Novel
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, published by Tor
- Trial By Fire by Charles E. Gannon, published by Baen
- Winner: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, published by Tor
- Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie, published by Orbit US
- Coming Home by Jack McDevitt, published by Ace
Best Novella
- “We Are All Completely Fine” by Daryl Gregory, published by Tachyon
- Winner: “Yesterday’s Kin” by Nancy Kress, published by Tachyon
- “The Regular” by Ken Liu
- “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert, published by Tor.com
- “Calendrical Regression” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by NobleFusion Press
- “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Subterranean
Best Novelette
- “Sleep Walking Now and Then” by Richard Bowes, published by Tor.com
- “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill, published by Clarkesworld
- Winner: “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i” by Alaya Dawn Johnson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado, published by Granta
- “We Are the Cloud” by Sam J. Miller, published by Lightspeed Magazine
- “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson, published by Tor.com
Best Short Story
- “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- “When It Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster, published by Daily Science Fiction
- “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel, published by Clarkesworld
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik
- “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Winner: “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon, published by Apex Magazine
- “The Fisher Queen” by Alyssa Wong, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Winner: Guardians of the Galaxy written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Walt Disney Pictures)
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo (Fox Searchlight)
- The LEGO Movie written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Warner Brothers)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Walt Disney Pictures)
- Edge of Tomorrow written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth (Warner Brothers)
- Interstellar written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King, published by Little, Brown
- Salvage by Alexandra Duncan, published by Greenwillow Books
- Winner: Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson, published by Arthur A. Levine Books
- Greenglass House by Kate Milford, published by Clarion House
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton, published by Candlewick
- Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry, published by St. Martin’s Griffin
- Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan, published by Random House