Best Novel

• When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Sour Cherry, by Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
• Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

Best Novella

• “Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, by Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)”
• “The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)”
• “The Death of Mountains, by Jordan Kurella (Lethe)”
• “Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)”
• “But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)”
• ““Descent”, by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)”

Best Novelette

• ““Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, by Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)”
• ““Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)”
• ““We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)”
• “The Name Ziya, by Wen-Yi Lee (Tor)”
• ““Never Eaten Vegetables”, by H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)”
• ““The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)”

Best Short Story

• ““Through the Machine”, by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)”
• ““Six People to Revise You”, by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)”
• ““The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, by E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)”
• ““In My Country”, by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)”
• ““Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)”
• ““Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)”

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Sinners, by Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)*
• Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”, by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)*
• Pluribus: Season One, by Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)*
• Superman, by James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)*
• KPop Demon Hunters, by Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)*
• Murderbot: Season One, by Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)*

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• The Tower, by David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books)
• Gemini Rising, by Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press)
• Wishing Well, Wishing Well, by Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts)
• Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
• Goblin Girl, by K.A. Mielke (self-published)
• Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

Best Game Writing

• Spire, Surge, and Sea, by Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S.
• Hollow Knight: Silksong, by Ari Gibson & William Pelen (Team Cherry)*
• Dispatch, by Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios)
• Hades II, by Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games)
• Blue Prince, by Tonda Ros (Raw Fury, Developer: Dogubomb)

Best Comic

• Second Shift, by Kit Anderson (Avery Hill)
• Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, by Amy Chu (Berger)
• Helen of Wyndhorn, by Tom King (Dark Horse)
• Fishflies, by Jeff Lemire (Image)
• Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)
• Strange Bedfellows, by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)
• The Flip Side, by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond)
• The Stoneshore Register, by G. Willow Wilson (Berger)

Best Poem

• “Though You Always Are”, by Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless)
• They Said Robots Are”, by Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25)
• “The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)
• “The Mourning Robot”, by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)
• “To Be the Change”, by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)
• “Care for Lightning”, by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)