Finalists for the 2020 SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards for works first published in 2019, along with contenders for the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

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 outstanding dramatic presentation. This year also includes a brand new award for Game Writing.

The Nebula Awards Ceremony will stream live at 5pm PT on May 30.

Novel

• Marque of Caine, Charles E Gannon (Baen)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)

Novella

• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
• Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• Catfish Lullaby, AC Wise (Broken Eye)

Novelette

• “A Strange Uncertain Light”, GV Anderson (F&SF July-August 2019)
• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com July 10 2019)
• “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com January 23 2019)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny July-August 2019)
• Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed April 2019)

Short Story

• “Give the Family My Love”, AT Greenblatt (Clarkesworld February 2019)
• “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny March-April 2019)
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons September 9 2019)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare May 2019)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny January-February 2019)
• “How the Trick Is Done”, AC Wise (Uncanny July-August 2019)

Game Writing

• Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
• The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)
• The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
• Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)
• Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions) 

The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)
• Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)
• Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
• Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)
• The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)
• Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
• Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)