Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Best Novelette

2023

• “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair” by Renan Bernardo, published by Samovar. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2023
• “I am AI” by Ai Jiang, published by Shortwave. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2023
• “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer, published by Uncanny. Winner, Best Novelette in 2023
• “Imagine Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon” by Angela Liu, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2023
• “Saturday’s Song” by Wole Talabi, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2023
• “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2023

2022

• “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Formal You” by John Chu, published by Uncanny. Winner, Best Novelette in 2022
• “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold” by S.B. Divya, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2022
• “Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” by S. L. Huang, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2022
• “A Dream of Electric Mothers” by Wole Talabi. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2022
• “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain” by Natalia Theodoridou, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2022
• “We Built This City” by Marie Vibbert, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2022

2021

• “O2 Arena” by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, published by Galaxy’s Edge. Winner, Best Novelette in 2021
• “Just Enough Rain” by P.H. Lee, published by GigaNotoSaurus. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2021
• “(emet)” by Lauren Ring, published by F&SF. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2021
• “That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2021
• “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2021

2020

• “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Tor.com. Winner, Best Novelette in 2020
• “Where You Linger” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2020
• “Shadow Prisons” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2020
• “Stepsister” by Leah Cypess, published by F&SF. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2020
• “The Pill” by Meg Ellison, published by PM Press. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2020
• “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2020

2019

• “Carpe Glitter” by Cat Rambo, published by Meerkat Shorts, LLC. Winner, Best Novelette in 2019
• “A Strange Uncertain Light” by G. V. Anderson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2019
• “For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carroll, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2019
• “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light” by Mimi Mondal, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2019
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2019
• “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2019

2018

• “The Only Harmless Great Thing” by Brooke Bolander, published by Tor.com. Winner, Best Novelette in 2018
• “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2018
• “An Agent of Utopia” by Andy Duncan, published by Small Beer Press. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2018
• “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births” by José Pablo Iriarte, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2018
• “The Rule of Three” by Lawrence M. Schoen, published by Future Science Fiction Digest. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2018
• “Messenger” by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2018

2017

• “Dirty Old Town” by Richard Bowes, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2017
• “Weaponized Math” by Jonathan P. Brazee, published by LMBPN Publishing. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2017
• “Wind Will Rove” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2017
• “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2017
• “A Human Stain” by Kelly Robson, published by Tor.com. Winner, Best Novelette in 2017
• “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M. Szpara, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2017

2016

• “The Long Fall Up” by William Ledbetter, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novelette in 2016
• “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2016
• “Blood Grains Speak Through Memories” by Jason Sanford, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2016
• “The Orangery” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2016
• “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2016
• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong, published by Uncanny. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2016

2015

• “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2015
• “The Deepwater Bride” by Tamsyn Muir, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2015
• “Grandmother-nai-Laylit’s Cloth of Winds” by R.B. Lemberg, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2015
• “The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society” by Henry Lien, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2015
• “Our Lady of the Open Road” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Winner, Best Novelette in 2015
• “Rattlesnakes and Men” by Michael Bishop, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2015

2014

• “We Are the Cloud” by Sam J. Miller, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2014
• “Sleep Walking Now and Then” by Richard Bowes, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2014
• “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2014
• “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado, published by Granta. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2014
• “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2014
• “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i” by Alaya Dawn Johnson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novelette in 2014

2013

• “Paranormal Romance” by Christopher Barzak, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2013
• “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard. Winner, Best Novelette in 2013
• “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass” by Alaya Dawn Johnson, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2013
• “Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters” by Henry Lien, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2013
• “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2013
• “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Strange Horizons. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2013

2012

• “Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan. Winner, Best Novelette in 2012
• “The Waves” by Ken Liu, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2012
• “Swift, Brutal Retaliation” by Meghan McCarron, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2012
• “The Pyre of New Day” by Catherine Asaro. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2012
• “Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2012
• “The Finite Canvas” by Lee Mandelo, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2012
• “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente, published by Clarkesworld. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2012

2011

• “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novelette in 2011
• “Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2011
• “The Migratory Pattern of Dancers” by Katherine Sparrow, published by GigaNotoSaurus. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2011
• “The Old Equations” by Jake Kerr, published by Lightspeed Magazine. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2011
• “Ray of Light” by Brad R. Torgersen, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2011
• “Sauerkraut Station” by Ferrett Steinmetz, published by GigaNotoSaurus. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2011
• “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders, published by Tor.com. Nominated for Best Novelette in 2011

2010

• “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone, published by Analog. Winner, Best Novelette in 2010

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