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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