2019 Nebula Awards®
Presented online on May 30, 2020.
Video recording of the event is available here.
Best Novel
- Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon, published by Baen
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, published by Redhook
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, published by Tor
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, published by Del Rey
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, published by Tor.com
- Winner: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker, published by Berkley
Best Novella
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang, published by Knopf
- “The Haunting of Tram Car 015” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tor.com
- Winner: “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, published by Gallery and Saga Press
- “Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water” by Vylar Kaftan, published by Tor.com
- “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, published by Gallery and Saga Press
- “Catfish Lullaby” by A C Wise, published by Broken Eye Books
Best Novelette
- “A Strange Uncertain Light” by G. V. Anderson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carroll, published by Tor.com
- “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light” by Mimi Mondal, published by Tor.com
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Uncanny
- Winner: “Carpe Glitter” by Cat Rambo, published by Meerkat Shorts, LLC
- “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Lightspeed Magazine
Best Short Story
- Winner: “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Clarkesworld
- “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, published by Uncanny
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas, published by Strange Horizons
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” by Nibedita Sen, published by Nightmare Magazine
- “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde, published by Uncanny
- “How the Trick Is Done” by A C Wise, published by Uncanny
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Captain Marvel written by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
- The Mandalorian: “The Child” written by Jon Favreau (Disney+)
- Winner: Good Omens: “Hard Times” written by Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios and BBC Studios)
- Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar” written by Jeff Jensen and Damon Lindelof (HBO)
- Avengers: Endgame written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
- Russian Doll: “The Way Out” written by Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Cog by Greg van Eekhout, published by HarperCollins
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez, published by Rick Riordan Presents
- Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer, published by Tor Teen
- Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, published by Rick Riordan Presents
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions by Henry Lien, published by Henry Holt
- Winner: Riverland by Fran Wilde, published by Harry N. Abrams
Best Game Writing
- Outer Wilds by Kelsey Beachum, published by Mobius Digital
- Winner: The Outer Worlds by Leonard Boyarsky, Kate Dollarhyde, Paul Kirsch, Chris L’Etoile, Daniel McPhee, Carrie Patel, Nitai Poddar, Marc Soskin, and Megan Starks, published by Obsidian Entertainment
- The Magician’s Workshop by Kate Heartfield, published by Choice of Games
- Disco Elysium by Robert Kurvitz, Märten Rattasepp, Helen Hindpere, Argo Tuulik, Olga Moskvina, Cash DeCuir, Justin Keenan, Siim Sinamäe, and Martin Luiga, published by ZA/UM
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, published by Evil Hat Productions