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Nebula Awards
"The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award." Click here to visit the official website.
Nebula Awards
Best Novel
The Stone Sky by Call Number: FANTASY JEMISINThis is the way the world ends... for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.
Finalists
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
- Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
- Jade City by Fonda Lee
- Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Best Novella
All Systems Red by Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION WELLSStuck on a distant planet with an exploratory crew, a Security Robot kills time watching soaps. After a group of scientists is killed, the robot (now calling itself “Murderbot”) must figure out how to save its crew from a similar fate.
Finalists
- River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
- Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
- And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker
- Barry's Deal by Lawrence M. Schoen
- The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Get Out by Call Number: DVD HORA young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.
Finalists
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Art of Starving by Call Number: YA FICTION MILLERA bullied gay teen boy with an eating disorder believes he's developed super powers via starvation.
Finalists
- Exo by Fonda Lee
- Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren
- Want by Cindy Pon
Best Novel
All the Birds in the Sky by Call Number: FANTASY ANDERSWhen Patricia Delfine was six years old, a wounded bird led her deep into the forest to the Parliament of Birds, where she met the Great Tree and was asked a question that would determine the course of her life. When Laurence Armstead was in grade school, he cobbled together a wristwatch-sized device that could send its wearer two seconds into the future. When Patricia and Laurence first met in high school, they didn’t understand one another at all. But as time went on, they kept bumping into one another’s lives. Now they’re both grown up, and the planet is falling apart around them. Neither Laurence nor Patricia can keep pace with the speed at which things fall apart. But something bigger than either of them, something begun deep in their childhoods, is determined to bring them together.
Finalists
Best Novella
Every Heart a Doorway by Call Number: FANTASY MCGUIREChildren have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
Finalists
- Runtime by S.B. Divya
- The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
- The Liar by John P. Murphy
- A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Arrival by Call Number: DVD SCIWhen mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Finalists
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Arabella of Mars by Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION LEVINEEver since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, they proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. Now, one century later, a plantation in the flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby. A tomboy who shares her father's deft hand with complex automatons. Being raised on the Martian frontier by her Martian nanny, Arabella is more a wild child than a proper young lady. Something her mother plans to remedy with a move to an exotic world Arabella has never seen: London, England.
Best Novel
Uprooted by Call Number: FANTASY NOVIKThe Dragon protects the valley, but when Agnieszka becomes his servant she learns that the danger—and her power—is greater than she'd ever imagined.
Finalists
- Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
- Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen
- Updraft by Fran Wilde
Best Novella
Binti by Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION OKORAFORHer name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself--but first she has to make it there, alive.
Finalists
- Wings of Sorrow and Bone by Beth Cato
- The Bone Swans of Amandale by CSE Cooney
- The New Mother by Eugene Fischer
- The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik
- Waters of Versailles by Kelly Robson
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Mad Max: Fury RoadCall Number: DVD ADVA return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, he believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord with his gangs, pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows
Finalists
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Updraft by Call Number: FANTASY WILDEAmongst towers of living bone, all Kirit wants is to earn her wings. The Singers have different plans for her skills.
Finalists
Best Novel
Annihilation by Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION VANDERMEThe twelfth expedition is crossing the border into Area-X. Will they successfully navigate this strange territory, or fail like their predecessors?
Finalists
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Trial By Fire by Charles E. Gannon
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
- Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
Best Novella
Yesterday's Kin by Aliens have landed in New York. A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two worlds. Now that plague is heading for Earth, and threatens humans and aliens alike. Can either species be trusted to find the cure?
Finalists
- We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory
- The Regular by Ken Liu
- The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert
- Calendrical Regression by Lawrence M. Schoen
- Grand Jete (The Great Leap) by Rachel Swirsky
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Guardians of the GalaxyCall Number: DVD SCIBrash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand-with the galaxy's fate in the balance.
Finalists
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) by Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., & Armando Bo
- The Lego Movie by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Christopher Markus, & Stephen McFeely
- Edge of Tomorrow by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, & John-Henry Butterworth
- Interstellar by Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Love Is the Drug by Call Number: YA FICTION JOHNSONEmily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
Best Novel
Ancillary Justice by Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION LECKIENow isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Finalists
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- Fire With Fire by Charles E. Gannon
- Hild by Nicola Griffith
- The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata
- A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Best Novella
The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan is a Nebula-nominated author who has published about three dozen stories in places such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Realms of Fantasy. She’s the founder of FOGcon, a new literary SF/F convention in the San Francisco area, and she blogs at www.vylarkaftan.net. In her compelling new novella about the Incan empire, Vylar treats us to an alternate look at the history of the New World
Finalists
- Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages
- Annabel Lee by Nancy Kress
- Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes
- Trial of the Century by Lawrence M. Schoen
- Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
GravityCall Number: DVD SCIWatch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will they survive?
Finalists
- Pacific Rim by Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Simon Beaufoy & Michael deBruyn
- Europa Report by Philip Gelatt
- Her by Spike Jonze
- Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor" by Steven Moffat
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Sister Mine by Now adults, sisters Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls, who were born as conjoined twins, gave Abby a permanent limp, but left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father, the god of growing things--a highly unusual childhood that made them extremely close. Ever since Abby's magical talent began to develop, though, in the form of an unearthly singing voice, the sisters have become increasingly distant. But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to discover her own talent--and reconcile with Abby--if she's to have a hope of saving him . . .
Best Novel
2312 by Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION ROBINSONThe year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.
Finalists
Best Novella
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Weaving three consecutive time lines to unravel both the mystery of the Earth's destruction and the key to its salvation, this taut post-apocalyptic thriller offers a topical plot with a satisfying twist.
Finalists
- On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
- The Stars Do Not Lie by Jay Lake
- All the Flavors by Ken Liu
- Katabasis by Robert Reed
- Barry's Tale by Lawrence M. Schoen
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Beasts of the Southern WildCall Number: DVD DRAHushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
Finalists
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Fair Coin by Call Number: YA FICTION MYERSWhen evil versions of himself and best friend Nate appear one day, teenaged Ephraim embarks on a dangerous odyssey through parallel worlds to make things right.
Finalists
- Black Heart by Holly Black
- Railsea by China Mieville
- Every Day by David Levithan
- Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
- Above World by Jenn Reese
- Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill
- Enchanted by Althea Kontis
- Above by Leah Bobet
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst