Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.
The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 6 in Chicago as part of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference.
The Nebula Award for Best Novel
- When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory (Saga)
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- Katabasis, by RF 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)
The Nebula Award for 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)
The Nebula Award for 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 (Reactor)
- “Never Eaten Vegetables”, by HH 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)
The Nebula Award for Best Short Story
- “Through the Machine”, by PA Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)
- “Six People to Revise You”, by JR Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)
- “In My Country”, by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
- “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, by EM Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
- “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)
The 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)
- Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
- Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
- Goblin Girl, by KA Mielke (self-published)
The Nebula Award for 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 SAS.
- 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)
The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- KPop Demon Hunters, by Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)*
- 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)*
- Murderbot: Season One, by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)*
The Nebula Award for 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)
The Nebula Award for 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)
- “Care for Lightning”, by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)
- “To Be the Change”, by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)
*Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.
