Nebula Award News
2018 (Presented 2019) Nebula Award® Winners
Awards Presented in 2019.
Best Novel winner: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, published by Tor
Best Novella winner: The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard, published by Subterranean Press
Best Novelette winner: “The Only Harmless Great Thing” by Brooke Bolander, published by Tor.com
Best Short Story winner: “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Fireside Magazine
Ray Bradbury Award winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse written by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman
Andre Norton Award winner: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, published by Henry Holt and Macmillan UK
Best Game Writing winner: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch by Charlie Brooker, published by House of Tomorrow and Netflix
Solstice Award: Neil Clarke and Nisi Shawl
Kevin J. O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award: Lee Martindale
Damon Knight Grand Master: William Gibson
Nebula Awards® livestream tonight at 8 PM PDT
Program begins at 24:36.
Watch panels from the 2019 Nebula Conference on the SFWA Youtube Channel
Nebula Conference begins today!
Nebula Conference app now available
Going to the Nebula Conference? Download the the Nebula Conference app for iOS and Android devices.
A few Marriott Warner Center Hotel rooms available
Alert! If anyone was not able to get into the host hotel but would like to, we have a small number of rooms newly available (first come, first served, and when these are gone, there will be no more). Contact events@sfwa.org before 3 PM EDT on Saturday, May 11. NOTE: Deadline has passed.
10 days until the Nebula Conference
Get ready for something spectacular. It really is coming on fast.
Book Depot consignment submissions closing
Reminder: The Book Depot is closing out consignment submissions by May 3rd. After that point we will not be able to stock anything further, as we have to import all the books and cover images into our catalog system and get it prepped for the Nebula Awards® conference weekend. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at sean.wallace@sfwa.org . Thank you!
SFWA Announces 2019 Nebula Toastmaster — Bobak Ferdowsi
Bobak Ferdowsi Named SFWA Nebula Awards® Toastmaster
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, Inc.) is pleased to announce that Bobak Ferdowsi has been named the toastmaster for the 54th annual Nebula Awards® on May 18th, 2019 in Woodland Hills, CA.
Ferdowsi has served as a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, working on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission and the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn. Following the Curiosity landing, Ferdowsi achieved fame for the mohawk he was seen wearing at JPL during media coverage of the successful landing. He is currently working on the NISAR joint Earth observation mission and the Europa Clipper mission scheduled for launch to the Jovian moon Europa in 2023.
The Nebula Awards® will be presented during the annual SFWA Nebula Conference, which will run from May 16th-19th and feature seminars and panel discussions on the craft and business of writing, SFWA’s annual business meeting, and receptions. On May 18th, a mass autograph session will take place at the Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills and is open to the public.
The Nebula Awards®, presented annually, recognize the best works of science fiction and fantasy published in the United States as selected by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, membership in which is open to professional science fiction and fantasy authors. The first Nebula Awards® were presented in 1966.
For more information please email pr@sfwa.org.
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nebula-conference/