Finalists for the 61st Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for the 61st annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2025, 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 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.

The Geeky Nerfherder 14th Anniversary & My 2025 Favourites

It's that time again! Today, December 29, is the birthday of this nerdy blog, beginning all the way back on this day in 2011 with the obligatory introductory blog post. Can't quite believe that I've been doing this geeky blog for 14 years!

 

From the beginning, the aim of the blog has always been to showcase inspiring, cool art and pop culture geekery, from alternative movie poster art, comic art, book and magazine cover art to the artworks on view from the latest new contemporary exhibitions, and the artists that create them.

 

I don't have as much time to work on the blog as I used to these days, life sometimes getting in the way and all that, but it's still a lot of fun to curate, even after all these years; finding the latest cool art, cover art, print releases and gallery shows, showcasing art from some of my favourite artists in my long running 'Artist Spotlight' series (still working my way through the artist alphabet and currently at the letter S), as well as starting each day with an #ArtOfTheDay post - something random from the Geeky Nerfherder image archives.

I'm still relatively active on the socials and they continue to gain new followers, even with the algorithms doing their best to limit any visibility and with the influx of AI slop (which I will NOT knowingly post on the blog or my socials), the number of followers is still in the thousands! WOW! It's always humbling and amazing to know that other people are also enjoying the artworks I'm posting and hopefully discovering new favourite artists along the way as well. But if you’re not already following, here are the links to my social profiles where I post to:

on Tumblr (GeekyNerfherder)

on Bluesky (@GeekyNerfherder)

on Instagram (@geekynerfherder)

on YouTube

on Goodreads

on Storygraph

Stores:
on Threadless (GeekyNerfherder)

on Teepublic

So that's another year almost in the books! There's still been more than enough good stuff to escape into a geeky and nerdy bubble with, despite everything 2025 has thrown up, and here are a few of my favourites from the past year below.

 

Winners Of The 2025 Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2025 Hugo Awards were presented at a ceremony during Seattle WorldCon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 16 2025 in Seattle, USA.

Best Novel

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)

Best Novella

• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

• “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s, September/October 2024)

Best Short Story

• “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 57)

Best Series

• Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (IDW Publishing)

Best Related Work

• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Legendary Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation” created and written by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Megan Lloyd (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Caves of Qud, co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat; contributors Nick DeCapua, Corey Frang, Craig Hamilton, Autumn McDonell, Bastia Rosen, Caelyn Sandel, Samuel Wilson (Freehold Games); sound design A Shell in the Pit; publisher Kitfox Games

Best Editor Short Form

• Neil Clarke

Best Editor Long Form

• Diana M Pho

Best Professional Artist

• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon

Best Fancast

• Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow

Best Fan Writer

• Abigail Nussbaum

Best Fan Artist

• Sara Felix

Best Poem

• “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, September 2024

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Moniquill Blackgoose (2nd year of eligibility)

Finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2025 Hugo Awards are scheduled to be presented at a ceremony during Seattle WorldCon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 16 2025 in Seattle, USA.

Best Novel

• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US, Tor UK)
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press, Sceptre)
• Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (DAW)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher (Tor)
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)

Best Novella

• The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
• Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher (Nightfire)

Best Novelette

• “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, May 2024)
• “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)
• “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s, September/October 2024)
• “Lake of Souls” by Ann Leckie in Lake of Souls (Orbit)
• “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
• “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 59)

Best Short Story

• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K Jones (Lightspeed Magazine, Jan 2024 (Issue 164))
• “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 56)
• “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 57)
• “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
• “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine, May 2024 (Issue 168))
• “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld, February 2024)

Best Series

• Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)
• The Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• InCryptid by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)
• The Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
• The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1 written by G Willow Wilson, art by Chris Wildgoose (IDW Publishing)
• Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (IDW Publishing)
• We Called Them Giants written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Image)

Best Related Work

• “Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics” by Camestros Felapton and Heather Rose Jones (File 770, February 22, 2024)
• r/Fantasy’s 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge (r/Fantasy on Reddit), presented by the r/Fantasy Bingo team: Alexandra Forrest (happy_book_bee), Lisa Richardson, Amanda E. (Lyrrael), Arka (RuinEleint), Ashley Rollins (oboist73), Christine Sandquist (eriophora), David H. (FarragutCircle), Diana Hufnagl, Pia Matei (Dianthaa), Dylan H. (RAAAImmaSunGod), Dylan Kilby (an_altar_of_plagues), Elsa (ullsi), Emma Surridge (PlantLady32), Gillian Gray (thequeensownfool), Kahlia (cubansombrero), Kevin James, Kopratic, Kristina (Cassandra_sanguine), Lauren Mulcahy (Valkhyrie), Megan, Megan Creemers (Megan_Dawn), Melissa S. (wishforagiraffe), Mike De Palatis (MikeOfThePalace), Para (improperly_paranoid), Sham, The_Real_JS, Abdellah L. (messi1045), AnnTickwittee, Chad Z. (shift_shaper), Emma Smiley (Merle), Rebecca (toughschmidt22), smartflutist661
• “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel” by Jenny Nicholson (YouTube)
• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
• Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene Books)
• “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion” by Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford (Genre Grapevine and File770, February 14, 2024)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Dune: Part Two, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Legendary Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Flow, screenplay by Gints Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža, directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Well Studio)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, screenplay by George Miller and Nick Lathouris, directed by George Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• I Saw the TV Glow, screenplay by Jane Schoenbrun, directed by Jane Schoenbrun (Fruit Tree / Smudge Films / A24)
• Wicked, screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, directed by Jon M. Chu (Universal Pictures)
• The Wild Robot, screenplay by Chris Sanders and Peter Brown, directed by Chris Sanders (DreamWorks Animation)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Fallout: “The Beginning” written by Gursimran Sandhu, directed by Wayne Che Yip (Amazon Prime Video)
• Agatha All Along: “Death’s Hand in Mine” written by Gia King & Cameron Squires, directed by Jac Schaeffer (Marvel, Disney+)
• Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: “Fissure Quest” created by Mike McMahan and written by Lauren McGuire based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Brandon Williams (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation” created and written by Mike McMahan, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Megan Lloyd (CBS Eye Animation Productions for Paramount+)
• Doctor Who: “73 Yards” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (BBC, Disney+)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Caves of Qud, co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat; contributors Nick DeCapua, Corey Frang, Craig Hamilton, Autumn McDonell, Bastia Rosen, Caelyn Sandel, Samuel Wilson (Freehold Games); sound design A Shell in the Pit; publisher Kitfox Games
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard produced by BioWare
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom produced by Nintendo
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes produced by Simogo
• Tactical Breach Wizards developed by Suspicious Developments
• 1000xRESIST developed by sunset visitor 斜陽過客, published by Fellow Traveller

Best Editor Short Form

• Scott H Andrews
• Jennifer Brozek
• Neil Clarke
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor Long Form

• Carl Engle-Laird
• Ali Fisher
• Lee Harris
• David Thomas Moore
• Diana M Pho
• Stephanie Stein

Best Professional Artist

• Micaela Alcaino
• Audrey Benjaminsen
• Rovina Cai
• Maurizio Manzieri
• Tran Nguyen
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• The Deadlands, publisher Sean Markey; editors E. Catherine Tobler, Nicasio Andres Reed, David Gilmore, Laura Blackwell, Annika Barranti Klein; proofreader Josephine Stewart; columnist Amanda Downum; art and design Cory Skerry, Christine M. Scott; social media Felicia Martínez; assistant Shana Du Bois.
• Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes, assistant editors Premee Mohamed and Kevin Wabaunsee, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht; and the entire Escape Pod team
• FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, publisher and executive editor DaVaun Sanders, poetry editor B. Sharise Moore, art director Christian Ivey, acquiring editors Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Egbiameje Omole, Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson, Tonya R. Moore, sponsor coordinator Nelson Rolon
• khōréō, produced by Zhui Ning Chang, Aleksandra Hill, Danai Christopoulou, Isabella Kestermann, Kanika Agrawal, Sachiko Ragosta, Lian Xia Rose, Jenelle DeCosta, Melissa Ren, Elaine Ho, Ambi Sun, Cyrus Chin, Nivair H. Gabriel, Jeané Ridges, Lilivette Domínguez, Isaree Thatchaichawalit, Jei D. Marcade, M. L. Krishnan, Ysabella Maglanque, Aaron Voigt, Adialyz Del Valle Berríos, Adil Mian, Akilah White, Alexandra Millatmal, Anselma Widha Prihandita, E. Broderick, K. S. Walker, Katarzyna Nowacka, Katie McIvor, Kelsea Yu, Lynn D. Jung, Madeleine Vigneron, Marie Croke, Merulai Femi, Phoebe Low, S. R. Westvik, Sanjna Bhartiya, Sara Messenger, Sophia Uy, Tina Zhu, Yuvashri Harish, Zohar Jacobs
• Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• Ancillary Review of Books, editors Jake Casella Brookins, Zachary Gillan, Lane Gillespie, Misha Grifka Wander, Gareth A. Reeves, Bianca Skrinyár, Cynthia Zhang
• Black Nerd Problems, editors William Evans and Omar Holmon
• The Full Lid, written by Alasdair Stuart and edited by Marguerite Kenner
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice L. Newman, associate writers Cora Buhlert, Jessica Holmes, Kerrie Dougherty, Kris Vyas-Myall, and Natalie Devitt, and the rest of the Journey team
• Journey Planet, edited by Allison Hartman Adams, Amanda Wakaruk, Ann Gry, Jean Martin, Sara Felix, Sarah Gulde, Chuck Serface, David Ferguson, Olav Rokne, Paul Weimer, Steven H Silver, Christopher J. Garcia and James Bacon
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk

Best Fancast

• The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, producer Jonathan Strahan
• Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow
• Hugo, Girl!, presented by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
• Hugos There, presented by Seth Heasley
• A Meal of Thorns, presented by Jake Casella Brookins
• Worldbuilding for Masochists, presented by Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris and Natania Barron

Best Fan Writer

• Camestros Felapton
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Roseanna Pendlebury
• Jason Sanford
• Alasdair Stuart
• Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

• Iain J Clark
• Sara Felix
• Meg Frank
• Michelle Morrell
• Alison Scott
• España Sheriff

Best Poem

• Calypso by Oliver K Langmead (Titan)
• “Ever Noir” by Mari Ness (Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 16, July 2024)
• “there are no taxis for the dead” by Angela Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 58)
• “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, September 2024)
• “We Drink Lava” by Ai Jiang (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 56)
• “Your Visiting Dragon” by Devan Barlow (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• The Feast Makers by HA Clarke (Erewhon)
• Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao (Tundra Books)
• The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
• Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte Press)
• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Moniquill Blackgoose (2nd year of eligibility)
• Bethany Jacobs (2nd year of eligibility)
• Hannah Kaner (2nd year of eligibility)
• Angela Liu (2nd year of eligibility)
• Jared Pechaček (1st year of eligibility)
• Tia Tashiro (2nd year of eligibility)

Finalists for the 60th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for the 60th annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2024, 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 game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 7 in Kansas City, MO as part of the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference. 

 

Novel

• Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

Novella

• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
• Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Dragonfly Gambit, AD Sui (Neon Hemlock)

Novelette

• The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
• Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka, Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
• Another Girl Under the Iron Bell, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
• What Any Dead Thing Wants, Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
• Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, AW Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
• Joanna’s Bodies, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
• Loneliness Universe, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

Short Story

• The Witch Trap, Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
• Five Views of the Planet Tartarus, Rachael K Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
• Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
• Evan: A Remainder, Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
• The V*mpire, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
• We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read, Caroline M Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Daydreamer, Rob Cameron (Labyrinth Road)
• Braided, Leah Cypess (Delacorte)
• Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
• Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
• Puzzleheart, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
• The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

Game Writing

• A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J Kim, Sara S Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Hidetaka Miyazaki (From Software)
• The Ghost and the Golem, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games)
• 1000xRESIST, Remy Siu, Pinki Li, Conor Wylie (Fellow Traveller Games)
• Pacific Drive, Karrie Shao, Paul Dean (Ironwood Studios)
• Restore, Reflect, Retry, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
• Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut, Tony Howard-Arias, Abby Howard (Black Tabby Games)
• Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, Jay Dragon, M Veselak, Mercedes Acosta, Lillie J Harris (Possum Creek Games)

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” by Russell T Davies (BBC)
• Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
• I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films LLC)
• KAOS by Charlie Covell, Georgia Christou (Netflix)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 by Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
• Wicked by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)

The Geeky Nerfherder 13th Anniversary & My 2024 Favourites

Today, December 29 is the birthday of this nerdy blog, beginning all the way back, 13 years ago on this day in 2011 with the obligatory introductory blog post.

 

From the start, the aim of the blog has always been to showcase inspiring, cool art and pop culture geekery, from poster art, comic art, book and magazine cover art to the artworks on view from the latest new contemporary exhibitions, and the artists that create them.

 

The blog is still a lot of fun to curate, even after all these years; discovering the latest cool art, cover art, print releases and gallery shows, showcasing art from some of my favourite artists in my long running 'Artist Spotlight' series (working my way through artists A-Z and currently at the letter R), as well as starting each day with an #ArtOfTheDay post - something random from the Geeky Nerfherder image archives.

Although I've stopped posting to Twitter/X, and now posting on Bluesky, I'm still active on the socials and they continue to gain new followers, even with the algorithms doing their best to limit any visibility and with the influx of AI slop (which I will NOT post on the blog or my socials), the number of followers is still in the thousands! WOW! Thank you so much!! It's always humbling and amazing to know that other people are also enjoying the artworks I'm posting and hopefully discovering new favourite artists along the way as well. But if you’re not already following, here are the links to my social profiles where I post to:

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• Kobo Ebooks & Audiobooks (UK)
• Alibris UK Books, Movies & Music
• Audible Audiobooks (UK)
• Forbidden Planet
• Kobo Ebooks & Audiobooks (US)
• Kobo Ebooks & Audiobooks (Canada)
• GB Posters

So that's another year almost done and dusted! There's still been enough good stuff to escape into a geeky and nerdy bubble with, despite everything 2024 has conjured up, and here are a few of my favourites from the past year below.

 

Winners of the 2024 Dragon Awards Announced

The winners of the 2024 Dragon Awards have been announced.

The Dragon Awards are a program of fan-chosen awards to recognize outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy literature, comics, gaming and filmed entertainment, and was introduced as part of Dragon*Con’s 30th Anniversary celebration in 2016.

Winners were announced during 'Dragon Con', September 1 2024.

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)

• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel

• Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S Dawson

Best Alternate History Novel

• All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris

Best Horror Novel

• Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Best Illustrative Book Cover

• Of Jade and Dragons by Kelly Chong

Best Comic Book / Graphic Novel

• Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet

• Fallout, Amazon Prime Video

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie

• Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve

Best Digital Game

• Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios

Best Tabletop Game

• D&D The Deck of Many Things, Wizards of the Coast

Winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2024 Hugo Awards were announced during Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 11 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Best Novel

• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)

Best Novella

• Thornhedge by T Kingfisher (Tor Books, Titan UK)

Best Novelette

• “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2023)

Best Short Story

• “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)

Best Series

• Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Saga, Vol. 11 written by Brian K Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)

Best Related Work

• A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Press; Particular Books)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Paramount Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time,” written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar (Naughty Dog / Sony Pictures)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Baldur’s Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios

Best Editor Short Form

• Neil Clarke

Best Editor Long Form

• Ruoxi Chen

Best Professional Artist

• Rovina Cai

Best Semiprozine

• Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective

Best Fanzine

• Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G Brown, Vance Kotrla

Best Fancast

• Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty

Best Fan Writer

• Paul Weimer

Best Fan Artist

• Laya Rose

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Xiran Jay Zhao (eligibility extended at request of Dell Magazines)

Winners of the 2024 Nebula Awards Anounced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards for works first published in 2023, 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 game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards were announced on June 8 at the 2024 Nebula Conference in Pasadena, California.

 

Novel

• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

Novella

• “Linghun,” Ai Jiang (Linghun)

Novelette

• “The Year Without Sunshine,” Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)

Short Story

• “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200,” RSA Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)

Game Writing

• Baldur’s Gate 3, Adam Smith, Adrienne Law, Baudelaire Welch, Chrystal Ding, Ella McConnell, Ine Van Hamme, Jan Van Dosselaer, John Corocran, Kevin VanOrd, Lawrence Schick, Martin Docherty, Rachel Quirke, Ruairí Moore, Sarah Baylus, Stephen Rooney, Swen Vincke (Larian Studios)

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach (Warner Bros., Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment)

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

• Susan Cooper

The SFWA Infinity Award

• Tanith Lee

The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

• Jennell Jaquays

The Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

• James Hosek

Finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2024 Hugo Awards are scheduled to be presented at a ceremony during Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, on August 11 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Best Novel

• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager, Harper Voyager UK)
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi (Tor Books, Tor UK)
• Translation State by Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
• Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Best Novella

• “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet,” He Xi / 人生不相见, 何夕, translated by Alex Woodend (Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers)
• Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• Rose / House by Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
• “Seeds of Mercury,” Wang Jinkang / 水星播种, 王晋康, translated by Alex Woodend (Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers)
• Thornhedge by T Kingfisher (Tor Books, Titan UK)

Best Novelette

• I AM AI by Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
• “Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition,” Gu Shi /〈2181序曲〉再版导言, 顾适 translated by Emily Jen (Clarkesworld, February 2023)
• “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” by C.L. Polk (Tor.com 8 December 2023)
• “On the Fox Roads” by Nghi Vo (Tor.com 31 October 2023)
• “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2023)
• “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2023)

Best Short Story

• “Answerless Journey,” Han Song / 没有答案的航程, 韩松, translated by Alex Woodend (Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers)
• “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2023)
• “The Mausoleum’s Children” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2023)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K Jones (Nightmare Magazine, October 2023)
• 美食三品 (“Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times”), 宝树 / Baoshu (银河边缘013：黑域密室 / Galaxy’s Edge Vol. 13: Secret Room in the Black Domain)

Best Series

• The Final Architecture by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)
• Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
• The Last Binding by Freya Marske (Tordotcom, Tor UK)
• The Laundry Files by Charles Stross (Tordotcom, Orbit UK)
• October Daye by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• The Universe of Xuya by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky Literary Agency; Subterranean Press; Uncanny Magazine; et al.)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Bea Wolf, written by Zach Weinersmith, art by Boulet (First Second)
• Saga, Vol. 11 written by Brian K Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Shubeik Lubeik, Deena Mohamed (Pantheon); as Your Wish Is My Command (Granta)
• 三体漫画：第一部 / The Three Body Problem, Part One, adapted from the novels by 刘慈欣 (Liu Cixin), written by 蔡劲 (Cai Jin),戈闻頔 (Ge Wendi), and 薄暮 (Bo Mu), art by 草祭九日东 (Caojijiuridong) (Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House)
• The Witches of World War II written by Paul Cornell, art by Valeria Burzo (TKO Studios LLC)
• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, art by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott (DC Comics)

Best Related Work

• All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays by Niall Harrison (Briardene Books)
• 中国科幻口述史, 第二卷, 第三卷，(Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Vols 2 and 3) ed. 杨枫 / Yang Feng (8-Light Minutes Culture & Chengdu Time Press)
• A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Press; Particular Books)
• The Culture: The Drawings, by Iain M Banks (Orbit)
• 雨果X访谈 (Discover X), presented by 王雅婷 (Tina Wong)
• A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, by Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Barbie, screenplay by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, directed by Greta Gerwig (Warner Bros. Studios)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Paramount Pictures)
• Nimona, screenplay by Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor, directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (Annapurna Animations)
• Poor Things, screenplay by Tony McNamara, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Element Pictures)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, screenplay by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Dave Callaham, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson (Columbia Pictures / Marvel Entertainment / Avi Arad Productions / Lord Miller / Pascal Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation)
• 流浪地球2 / The Wandering Earth II, based on the novel by 刘慈欣 Liu Cixin, screenplay by 杨治学 Yang Zhixue, 郭帆 / Frant Gwo, 龚格尔 Gong Geer, and 叶濡畅 Ye Ruchang, script consultant 王红卫 Wang Hongwei, directed by 郭帆 / Frant Gwo (中影创意（北京）电影有限公司 / CFC Pictures Ltd, 郭帆（北京）影业有限公司 / G!Film (Beijing) Studio Co. Ltd, 北京登峰国际文化传播有限公司 / Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communication Co, Ltd, 中国电影股份有限公司 / China Film Co. Ltd)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Doctor Who: “The Giggle,” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Chanya Button (Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for The BBC and Disney Branded Television)
• Loki: “Glorious Purpose,” screenplay by Eric Martin, Michael Waldron and Katharyn Blair, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Marvel / Disney+)
• The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time,” written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar (Naughty Dog / Sony Pictures)
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Those Old Scientists,” written by Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, directed by Jonathan Frakes (CBS / Paramount+)
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Subspace Rhapsody,” written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, directed by Dermott Downs (CBS / Paramount+)
• Doctor Who: “Wild Blue Yonder,” written by Russell T Davies, directed by Tom Kingsley (Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for The BBC and Disney Branded Television)

Best Game or Interactive Work

• Alan Wake 2, developed by Remedy Entertainment, published by Epic Games
• Baldur’s Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios
• Chants of Sennaar, developed by Rundisc, published by Focus Entertainment
• DREDGE, developed by Black Salt Games, published by Team17
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, produced by Nintendo
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, developed by Respawn Entertainment, published by Electronic Arts

Best Editor Short Form

• Scott H Andrews
• Neil Clarke
• 刘维佳 (Liu Weijia)
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• 杨枫 (Yang Feng)

Best Editor Long Form

• Ruoxi Chen
• Lindsey Hall
• Lee Harris
• Kelly Lonesome
• David Thomas Moore
• 姚海军 (Yao Haijun)

Best Professional Artist

• Micaela Alcaino
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Dan Dos Santos
• Tristan Elwell
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes; assistant editors Benjamin C Kinney, Premee Mohamed and Kevin Wabaunsee; hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart; producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht; and the entire Escape Pod team
• FIYAH Literary Magazine, publisher and executive editor DaVaun Sanders, poetry editor B Sharise Moore, special projects manager LD Lewis, art director Christian Ivey, acquiring editors Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Joshua Morley, Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson, Tonya R Moore, sponsor coordinator Nelson Rolon
• GigaNotoSaurus, editor LaShawn M Wanak, associate editors Mia Tsai and Edgard Wentz, along with the GNS Slushreaders Team
• khōréō, produced by Aleksandra Hill, Zhui Ning Chang, Kanika Agrawal, Isabella Kestermann, Rowan Morrison, Sachiko Ragosta, Lian Xia Rose, Jenelle DeCosta, Melissa Ren, Elaine Ho, Lilivette Domínguez, Jei D Marcade, Jeané Ridges, Isaree Thatchaichawalit, Danai Christopoulou, ML Krishnan, Ysabella Maglanque, Aaron Voigt, Adil Mian, Alexandra Millatmal, E Broderick, KS Walker, Katarzyna Nowacka, Katie McIvor, Kelsea Yu, Marie Croke, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Phoebe Low, SR Westvik, Sara S Messenger
• Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• Black Nerd Problems, editors Omar Holmon and William Evans
• The Full Lid, written by Alasdair Stuart and edited by Marguerite Kenner
• Idea, editor Geri Sullivan
• Journey Planet, edited by Michael Carroll, Vincent Docherty, Sara Felix, Ann Gry, Sarah Gulde, Allison Hartman Adams, Arthur Liu, Jean Martin, Helena Nash, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Yen Ooi, Chuck Serface, Alan Stewart, Regina Kanyu Wang, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
• Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G Brown, Vance Kotrla
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk

Best Fancast

• The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K Wolfe
• Hugos There, presented by Seth Heasley
• Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
• Publishing Rodeo, presented by Sunyi Dean and Scott Drakeford
• 科幻Fans布玛 (Science Fiction Fans Buma), production team 布玛（Buma)，刘路（Liu Lu)，刘倡（Liu Chang)
• Worldbuilding for Masochists, presented by Marshall Ryan Maresca, Rowenna Miller, Cass Morris and Natania Barron

Best Fan Writer

• Bitter Karella
• James Davis Nicoll
• Jason Sanford
• Alasdair Stuart
• Paul Weimer
• Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

• ​​Iain J Clark
• Sara Felix
• Dante Luiz
• Laya Rose
• Alison Scott
• España Sheriff

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• Abeni’s Song by P Djèlí Clark (Starscape)
• Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood Press)
• Promises Stronger than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen Books, Gollancz and Allen & Unwin)
• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• Unraveller by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books; eligible due to 2023 US publication by Amulet)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (sponsored by Dell Magazines)

• Moniquill Blackgoose (1st year of eligibility)
• Sunyi Dean (2nd year of eligibility)
• Ai Jiang (2nd year of eligibility)
• Hannah Kaner (1st year of eligibility)
• Em X Liu (1st year of eligibility)
• Xiran Jay Zhao (eligibility extended at request of Dell Magazines)

Finalists for the 2024 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 2023, 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 game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards will be announced on June 8 at the 2024 Nebula Conference in Pasadena, California.

 

Novel

• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• The Water Outlaws, SL Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
• Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW, Gollancz)
• Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Novella

• The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• “Linghun,” Ai Jiang (Linghun)
• Thornhedge, T Kingfisher (Tor Books; Titan UK)
• Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Novelette

• “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair,” Renan Bernardo (Samovar 2/23)
• I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
• “The Year Without Sunshine,” Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
• “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon,” Angela Liu (Clarkesworld 6/23)
• “Saturday’s Song,” Wole Talabi (Lightspeed 5/23)
• “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge,” Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)

Short Story

• “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont,” PA Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
• “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200,” RSA Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23)
• “Window Boy,” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming,” Rachael K Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
• “Better Living Through Algorithms,” Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 5/23)
• “Bad Doors,” John Wiswell (Uncanny 1-2/23)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern, J Dianne Dotson (Android)
• Liberty’s Daughter, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
• The Ghost Job, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)

Game Writing

• The Bread Must Rise, Stewart C Baker, James Beamon (Choice of Games)
• Alan Wake II, Sam Lake, Clay Murphy, Tyler Burton Smith, Sinikka Annala (Remedy Entertainment, Epic Games Publishing)
• Ninefox Gambit: Machineries of Empire Roleplaying Game, Yoon Ha Lee, Marie Brennan (Android)
• Dredge, Joel Mason (Black Salt Games, Team 17)
• Chants of Sennaar, Julien Moya, Thomas Panuel (Rundisc, Focus Entertainment)
• Baldur’s Gate 3, Adam Smith, Adrienne Law, Baudelaire Welch, Chrystal Ding, Ella McConnell, Ine Van Hamme, Jan Van Dosselaer, John Corocran, Kevin VanOrd, Lawrence Schick, Martin Docherty, Rachel Quirke, Ruairí Moore, Sarah Baylus, Stephen Rooney, Swen Vincke (Larian Studios)

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Nimona, Robert L Baird, Lloyd Taylor, Pamela Ribon, Marc Haimes, Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Keith Bunin, Nate Stevenson (Annapurna Animation, Annapurna Pictures)
• The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time,” Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin (HBOMax)
• Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach (Warner Bros., Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Michael Gilio, Chris McKay (Paramount Pictures, Entertainment One, Allspark Pictures)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham (Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Avi Arad Productions)
• The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli, Toho Company)

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

• Susan Cooper

The Geeky Nerfherder 12th Anniversary & My 2023 Favourites

December 29 is the 12th anniversary of this nerdy blog, beginning all the way back on this day in 2011 with the obligatory introductory blog post. So, Happy Birthday Geeky Nerfherder!

 

The aim of the blog has always been to showcase inspiring, cool art and pop culture geekery, from poster art, comic art, book and magazine cover art to the artworks on view from the latest new contemporary exhibitions, and the artists that create them.

 

After all the years I've been doing this blog, it's still a lot of fun to curate; discovering the latest cool art, cover art, print releases and gallery shows, showcasing art from some of my favourite artists in my long running 'Artist Spotlight' series, and starting each day with an #ArtOfTheDay post - something random from the Geeky Nerfherder image archives.

 

I'm active on the socials and also sometimes post bonus content there, such as quicky reviews of the latest movies I have seen, and any nerdy #NewSwag that I add to my collection as well. The socials continue to gain new followers, especially Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram, even with the algorithms doing their damndest to limit any visibility, with the number of followers in the thousands! WOW! Thank you so much!! It's always humbling and amazing to know that other people are also enjoying the artworks I'm posting and hopefully discovering new favourite artists along the way as well. But if you’re not already following, here are the links to my social profiles where I post to:

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So that's another year almost done and dusted! There's still been enough good stuff to escape into a geeky and nerdy bubble with, despite everything 2023 has conjured up, and here are a few of my favourites from the past year below.

 

Winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards Announced

The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2023 Hugo Awards were presented at a ceremony during Chengdu Worldcon weekend - October 18-22 2023, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, China.

Best Novel

• Nettle & Bone, by T Kingfisher (Tor Books)

Best Novella

• Where The Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)

 

Best Novelette

• “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)

 

Best Short Story

• “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)

 

Best Series

• Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)

 

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)

 

Best Related Work

• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, by Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Everything Everywhere All At Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)

 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)

 

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke

 

Best Editor, Long Form

• Lindsey Hall

 

Best Professional Artist

• Enzhe Zhao

 

Best Semiprozine

• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.

 

Best Fanzine

• Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen

 

Best Fancast

• Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson

 

Best Fan Writer

• Chris M Barkley

 

Best Fan Artist

• Richard Man

 

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society)

• Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)

 

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines)

• Travis Baldree

Finalists for the 2023 Hugo Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2023 Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, to recognize the best in science fiction and fantasy, have been announced.

 

The 2023 Hugo Awards are scheduled to be presented at a ceremony during Chengdu Worldcon weekend - October 18-22 2023, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, China.

Best Novel

• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (Tor Books)
• Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
• Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• Nettle & Bone, by T Kingfisher (Tor Books)
• The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)

Best Novella

• Even Though I Knew The End, by CL Polk (Tordotcom)
• Into The Riverlands, by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• A Mirror Mended, by Alix E Harrow (Tordotcom)
• Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
• What Moves The Dead, by T Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire)
• Where The Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)

 

Best Novelette

• “The Difference Between Love and Time”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Solaris)
• “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Tordotcom)
• “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, by John Chu (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022)
• “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, by SL Huang (Clarkesworld, December 2022)
• “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)
• “We Built This City”, by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)

 

Best Short Story

• “D.I.Y.”, by John Wiswell (Tor.com, August 2022)
• “On The Razor’s Edge”, by Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World, January 2022)
• “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)
• “Resurrection”, by Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World, December 2022)
• “The White Cliff”, by Lu Ban (Science Fiction World, May 2022)
• “Zhurong on Mars”, by Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers, September 2022)

 

Best Series

• Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)
• The Founders Trilogy, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
• The Locked Tomb, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
• October Daye, by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovich (Orion)
• The Scholomance, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

 

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
• DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, by Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid (Legendary Comics)
• Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
• Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, by Kieron Gillen / Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
• Saga, Vol. 10, by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)

 

Best Related Work

• Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, by Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
• Buffalito World Outreach Project, by Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem LLC)
• Chinese Science Fiction, An Oral History, Volume 1, by Yang Feng (Chengdu Times Press)
• “The Ghost of Workshops Past”, by SL Huang (Tor.com)
• Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, by Wil Wheaton (William Morrow)
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, by Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Avatar: The Way of Water, screenplay by James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, directed by James Cameron (Lightstorm Entertainment / TSG Entertainment II)
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, screenplay by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, directed by Ryan Coogler (Marvel Studios)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)
• Nope, written by Jordan Peele, directed by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures / Monkeypaw Productions)
• Severance (Season 1), written by Dan Erickson, Anna Ouyang Moench et al., directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle (Red Hour Productions / Fifth Season)
• Turning Red, screenplay by Julia Cho and Domee Shi, directed by Domee Shi (Walt Disney Studios / Pixar Animation Studios)

 

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Andor: “One Way Out”, written by Beau Willimon, Tony Gilroy, and George Lucas, directed by Toby Haynes (Lucasfilm)
• Andor: “Rix Road”, written by Tony Gilroy and George Lucas, directed by Benjamin Caron (Lucasfilm)
• The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)
• For All Mankind: “Stranger In A Strange Land”, written by Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, directed by Craig Zisk (Tall Ship Productions/Sony Pictures Television)
• She-Hulk: Attorney At Law: “Whose Show Is This?”, written by Jessica Gao, Francesca Gailes, and Jacqueline Gailes, directed by Kat Coiro (Marvel Entertainment)
• Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”, written by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, and Paul Dichter, directed by Shawn Levy (21 Laps Entertainment)

 

Best Editor, Short Form

• Scott H Andrews
• Neil Clarke
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• Xu Wang
• Feng Yang

 

Best Editor, Long Form

• Ruoxi Chen
• Lindsey Hall
• Lee Harris
• Sarah Peed
• Huan Yan
• Haijun Yao

 

Best Professional Artist

• Sija Hong
• Kuri Huang
• Paul Lewin
• Alyssa Winans
• Jian Zhang
• Enzhe Zhao

 

Best Semiprozine

• Escape Pod, co-editors Mur Lafferty & Valerie Valdes; Assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney & Premee Mohamed, host Tina Connolly, producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht
• FIYAH, edited by the entire FIYAH team
• khōréō, edited by Team khōréō
• PodCastle, co-Editors Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Eleanor R. Wood; Assistant Editor Sofia Barker; Host Matt Dovey; Audio Producers Peter Adrian Behravesh, Devin Martin, and Eric Valdes
• Strange Horizons, edited by The Strange Horizons Editorial Team
• Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.

 

Best Fanzine

• Chinese Academic SF Express, by Latssep and Tianluo_Qi
• Galactic Journey, by Gideon Marcus, Janice Marcus, Tammi Bozich, Erica Frank, Arel Lucas, and Mark Yon
• Journey Planet, by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Sara Felix, Amanda Wakaruk, Olav Rokne, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Chuck Serface, Erin Underwood, Alissa Wales, John Coxon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia.
• Nerds of a Feather, by Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer, Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, G. Brown
• Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, by Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk
• Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen

 

Best Fancast

• Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K Wolfe, produced by Jonathan Strahan
• Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
• Hugos There, by Seth Heasley
• Kalanadi, created and presented by Rachel
• Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
• Worldbuilding for Masochists, by Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca

 

Best Fan Writer

• Chris M Barkley
• Bitter Karella
• Arthur Liu
• RiverFlow
• Jason Sanford
• Örjan Westin

 

Best Fan Artist

• Iain Clark
• Richard Man
• Laya Rose
• Alison Scott
• España Sheriff
• Orion Smith

 

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society)

• Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)
• Bloodmarked, by Tracy Deonn (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen/Titan Books)
• The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• In the Serpents Wake, by Rachel Hartman (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, by Catherynne M Valente (Margaret K McElderry Books)

 

Astounding Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines)

• Travis Baldree
• Naseem Jamnia
• Isabel J Kim (2nd year of eligibility)
• Maijia Liu
• Everina Maxwell (2nd year of eligibility)
• Weimu Xin (2nd year of eligibility)

Winners of the 2023 SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards for works first published in 2022, along with the winners of the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards and special 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 game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards were announced on May 14 2023.

 

Novel

• Babel, RF Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

 

Novella

• Even Though I Knew The End, CL Polk (Tordotcom)

 

Novelette

• “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny 7–8/22)

 

Short Story

• “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11–12/22)

 

Game Writing

• Elden Ring, Hidetaka Miyazaki, George RR Martin (FromSoftware, Bandai Namco)

 

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion, K Tempest Bradford (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

 

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (A24, AGBO, IAC Films)

SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

• Robin McKinley

SFWA Infinity Award, to posthumously honour acclaimed creators who passed away before they could be considered for a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

• Octavia E Butler (posthumously)

Kevin J O'Donnell Jr Services To SFWA Award

• Mishell Baker

Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, for significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and related genres community

• Cerece Renee Murphy
• Greg Bear (posthumously)

Finalists for the 2023 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 2022, 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 game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards will be announced on May 14 2023.

 

Novel

• Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
• Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
• Nettle and Bone, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• Babel, RF Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

 

Novella

• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
• “Bishop’s Opening”, RSA Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
• I Never Liked You Anyway, Jordan Kurella (Vernacular)
• Even Though I Knew The End, CL Polk (Tordotcom)
• High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)

 

Novelette

• “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny 7–8/22)
• “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold”, SB Divya (Uncanny 5–6/22)
• “Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, SL Huang (Clarkesworld 12/22
• “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
• “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain”, Natalia Theodoridou (Uncanny 9/22)
• “We Built This City”, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld 6/22)

 

Short Story

• “Destiny Delayed”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Asimov’s 5–6/22)
• “Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5–6/22)
• “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11–12/22)
• “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)
• “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
• “D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)

 

Game Writing

• Elden Ring, Hidetaka Miyazaki, George RR Martin (FromSoftware, Bandai Namco)
• Horizon Forbidden West, Ben McCaw, Anna Kitain (Guerilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, Ajit George, F Wesley Schneider, Justice Ramin Arman, Dominique Dickey, Basheer Ghouse, Alastor Guzman, D Fox Harrell, TK Johnson, Felice Tzehuei Kuan, Surena Marie, Mimi Mondal, Mario Ortegón, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Stephanie Yoon, Terry H Romero (Wizards of the Coast: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Ed.)
• Pentiment, Kate Dollarhyde, Zoe Franznick, Märten Rattasepp, Josh Sawyer (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
• Stray, Steven Lerner, Vivien Mermet-Guyenet, Colas Koola (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Sins of the Sires, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games, Paradox Interactive)

 

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion, K Tempest Bradford (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• The Scratch Daughters, HA Clarke (Erewhon)
• The Mirrorwood, Deva Fagan (Atheneum)
• The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, Maya MacGregor (Astra Young Readers)
• Every Bird A Prince, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)

 

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Andor: “One Way Out”, Beau Willimon (Lucasfilm, Disney+)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (A24, AGBO, IAC Films)
• Nope, Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
• Our Flag Means Death, David Jenkins, Eliza Jiménez Cossio, Zadry Ferrer-Geddes, William Meny, Maddie Dai, Alyssa Lane, John Mahone, Simone Nathan, Natalie Torres, Zackery Alexzander Stephens, Alex J Sherman, Jes Tom, Adam Stein, Yvonne Zima (Dive, HBO Max)
• The Sandman: Season 1, Neil Gaiman, Lauren Bello, Vanessa Benton, Mike Dringenberg, Sam Kieth, Catherine Smyth-McMullen, Heather Bellson, Jim Campolongo, Jay Franklin, Austin Guzman, Alexander Newman-Wise, Ameni Rozsa, David Goyer, Allan Heinberg (DC Entertainment, Netflix)
• Severance, Dan Erickson, Chris Black, Andrew Colville, Amanda Overton, Anna Ouyang Moench, Helen Leigh, Kari Drake, and Mark Friedman. (Endeavor Content, Red Hour Films, Apple TV+)