2022 Nebula Awards®
Presented at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort and online on Sunday, May 14, 2023
Video recording of the event is available here.
Best Novel
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, published by Cryptid and Tor
- Spear by Nicola Griffith, published by Tordotcom
- Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher, published by Tor and Titan UK
- Winner: Babel by R. F. Kuang, published by Harper Voyager US and Harper Voyager UK
- Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, published by Tordotcom
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, published by MCD and Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Best Novella
- “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” by Becky Chambers, published by Tordotcom
- “Bishop’s Opening” by R. S. A. Garcia, published by Clarkesworld
- “I Never Liked You Anyway” by Jordan Kurella, published by Vernacular
- Winner: “Even Though I Knew the End” by C. L. Polk, published by Tordotcom
- “High Times in the Low Parliament” by Kelly Robson, published by Tordotcom
Best Novelette
- Winner: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Formal You” by John Chu, published by Uncanny
- “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold” by S.B. Divya, published by Uncanny
- “Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” by S. L. Huang, published by Clarkesworld
- “A Dream of Electric Mothers” by Wole Talabi
- “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain” by Natalia Theodoridou, published by Uncanny
- “We Built This City” by Marie Vibbert, published by Clarkesworld
Best Short Story
- “Destiny Delayed” by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, published by Asimov’s
- “Give Me English” by Ai Jiang, published by F&SF
- Winner: “Rabbit Test” by Samantha Mills, published by Uncanny
- “Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar, published by Nightmare
- “Douen” by Suzan Palumbo, published by The Dark
- “D. I. Y” by John Wiswell, published by Tor.com
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Severance written by Dan Erickson, Chris Black, Andrew Colville, Amanda Overton, Amanda Ouyang Moench, Helen Leigh, Kari Drake, and Mark Friedman (Endeavor Content, Red Hour Films, and Apple TV+)
- The Sandman: Season 1 written by Neil Gaiman, Lauren Bello, Vanessa Benton, Mike Dringenberg, Sam Kieth, Catherine Smyth-McMullen, Heather Bellson, Jim Campolongo, Jay Franklin, Austin Guzman, Alexander Newman-Wise, Ameni Rozsa, David Goyer, and Allan Heinberg (DC Entertainment and Netflix)
- Our Flag Means Death written by David Jenkins, Eliza Jiménez Cossio, Zadry Ferrer-Geddes, William Meny, Maddie Dai, Alyssa Lane, John Mahone, Simone Nathan, Natalie Torres, Zackery Alexzander Stephens, Jes Tom, and Adam Stein (Dive and HBO Max)
- Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once written by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (A24, AGBO, and IAC Films)
- Nope written by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
- Andor:”One Way Out” written by Beau Willimon and Tony Gilroy (Lucasfilm and Disney+)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Winner: Ruby Finley vs. The Interstellar Invasion by K. Tempest Bradford, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- The Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke, published by Erewhon
- The Mirrorwood by Deva Fagan, published by Atheneum
- Every Bird a Prince by Jenn Reese, published by Henry Holt
- The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, published by Astra Young Readers
Best Game Writing
- Pentiment by Kate Dollarhyde, Zoe Franznick, Märten Rattasepp, and Josh Sawyer, published by Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios
- Journeys through the Radiant Citadel by Ajit A. George, F. Wesley Schneider, Justice Ramin Arman, Dominique Dickey, Basheer Ghouse, Alastor Guzman, D. Fox Harrell, T. K. Johnson, Felice Tzehuei Kuan, Surena Marie, Mimi Mondal, Mario Ortegón, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Pam Punzalan, and Erin Roberts, published by Wizards of the Coast: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Ed.
- Stray by Steven Lerner, Vivien Mermet-Guyenet, and Colas Koola, published by BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive
- Winner: Elden Ring by George R.R. Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki, published by FromSoftware and Bandai Namco
- Horizon Forbidden West by Ben McCaw, John Gonzalez, Annie Kitain, Ariadna Martinez, Nick van Someren Brand, Andrew Walsh, Adam Dolin, Anne Toole, Arjan Terpstra, Ben Schroder, Dee Warrick, and Giles Armstrong, published by Guerrilla Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires by Natalia Theodoridou, published by Choice of Games and Paradox Interactive