Nebula Awards: winners & nominees

Nebula Awards 2026

• 🏆 Murderbot· Bradbury Award

Nebula Awards 2025

• 🏆Someone You Can Build a Nest In — John Wiswell· Best Novel
• 🏆Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being· Best Novelette
• 🏆Linghun — Ai Jiang· Best Novella
• 🏆The Dragonfly Gambit· Best Novella
• 🏆Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole — Isabel J. Kim· Best Short Story
• 🏆 Ashlan Chidester· Overall
• ✦The Book of Love — Kelly Link· Best Novel
• ✦Rakesfall — Vajra Chandrasekera· Best Novel
• ✦Asunder· Best Novel
• ✦Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory· Best Novel
• ✦A Sorceress Comes to Call — Ursula Vernon· Best Novel
• ✦Loneliness Universe — Eugenia Triantafyllou· Best Novelette
• ✦Joanna's Bodies — Eugenia Triantafyllou· Best Novelette
• ✦Another Girl Under the Iron Bell — Angela Liu· Best Novelette

All 26 2025 entries →

Nebula Awards 2024

• 🏆 Swen Vincke· Best Game Writing
• 🏆The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera· Best Novel
• 🏆The Year Without Sunshine — Naomi Kritzer· Best Novelette
• 🏆Linghun — Ai Jiang· Best Novella
• 🏆Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200· Best Short Story
• ✦Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — Wole Talabi· Best Novel
• ✦Translation State — Ann Leckie· Best Novel
• ✦The Water Outlaws — S. L. Huang· Best Novel
• ✦The Terraformers — Annalee Newitz· Best Novel
• ✦Witch King — Martha Wells· Best Novel
• ✦Saturday's Song — Wole Talabi· Best Novelette
• ✦Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge — Eugenia Triantafyllou· Best Novelette
• ✦I Am AI — Ai Jiang· Best Novelette
• ✦A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair (Part 1 of 2) — Renan Bernardo· Best Novelette

All 25 2024 entries →

Nebula Awards 2023

• 🏆Babel — R.F. Kuang· Best Novel
• 🏆If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You — John Chu· Best Novelette
• 🏆Even Though I Knew the End — C. L. Polk· Best Novella
• ✦Legends & Lattes — Travis Baldree· Best Novel
• ✦Spear — Nicola Griffith· Best Novel
• ✦Nona the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir· Best Novel
• ✦Nettle & Bone — Ursula Vernon· Best Novel
• ✦The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler· Best Novel
• ✦A Dream of Electric Mothers — Wole Talabi· Best Novelette
• ✦Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness — S. L. Huang· Best Novelette
• ✦The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain — Natalia Theodoridou· Best Novelette
• ✦We Built This City — Marie Vibbert· Best Novelette
• ✦Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold — S. B. Divya· Best Novelette
• ✦I Never Liked You Anyway; or, The Tale of Eurydice & Orpheus As Told by One God and One Musician· Best Novella

All 23 2023 entries →

Nebula Awards 2022

• 🏆A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark· Best Novel
• 🏆O2 Arena — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki· Best Novelette
• 🏆And What Can We Offer You Tonight — Premee Mohamed· Best Novella
• ✦The Unbroken — C. L. Clark· Best Novel
• ✦A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine· Best Novel
• ✦Plague Birds — Jason Sanford· Best Novel
• ✦Machinehood — S. B. Divya· Best Novel
• ✦That Story Isn't the Story — John Wiswell· Best Novelette
• ✦(emet) — Lauren Ring· Best Novelette
• ✦Colors of the Immortal Palette — Caroline M. Yoachim· Best Novelette
• ✦Just Enough Rain — Rachel Swirsky· Best Novelette
• ✦The Giants of the Violet Sea — Eugenia Triantafyllou· Best Novella
• ✦Flowers for the Sea — Zin E. Rocklyn· Best Novella
• ✦A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers· Best Novella

All 23 2022 entries →

Nebula Awards 2021

• 🏆 Scents & Semiosis· Best Game Writing
• 🏆Network Effect — Martha Wells· Best Novel
• 🏆Two Truths and a Lie· Best Novelette
• 🏆Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times — P. Djèlí Clark· Best Novella
• ✦A Game of Fox & Squirrels — Jenn Reese· Andre Norton Award
• ✦Scents & Semiosis — Yoon Ha Lee· Best Game Writing
• ✦Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia· Best Novel
• ✦Piranesi — Susanna Clarke· Best Novel
• ✦The City We Became — N. K. Jemisin· Best Novel
• ✦Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse· Best Novel
• ✦The Midnight Bargain — C. L. Polk· Best Novel
• ✦The Pill — Meg Elison· Best Novelette
• ✦Shadow Prisons of the Mind — Caroline M. Yoachim· Best Novelette
• ✦The Shadow Prison Experiment — Caroline M. Yoachim· Best Novelette

All 30 2021 entries →

Nebula Awards 2020

• 🏆Riverland — Fran Wilde· Andre Norton Award
• 🏆A Song for a New Day· Best Novel
• 🏆Carpe Glitter — Cat Rambo· Best Novelette
• 🏆This Is How You Lose the Time War — Max Gladstone· Best Novella
• 🏆This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar· Best Novella
• ✦Gods of Jade and Shadow — Silvia Moreno-Garcia· Best Novel
• ✦Marque of Caine — Charles E. Gannon· Best Novel
• ✦A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine· Best Novel
• ✦Gideon the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir· Best Novel
• ✦The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alix E. Harrow· Best Novel
• ✦For He Can Creep — Siobhan Carroll· Best Novelette
• ✦A Strange Uncertain Light — G. V. Anderson· Best Novelette
• ✦The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye· Best Novelette
• ✦His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light — Mimi Mondal· Best Novelette

All 27 2020 entries →

Nebula Awards 2019

• 🏆The Calculating Stars — Mary Robinette Kowal· Best Novel
• 🏆The Only Harmless Great Thing — Brooke Bolander· Best Novelette
• 🏆The Tea Master and the Detective — Aliette de Bodard· Best Novella
• ✦Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik· Best Novel
• ✦Blackfish City — Sam J. Miller· Best Novel
• ✦The Poppy War — R.F. Kuang· Best Novel
• ✦Trail of Lightning — Rebecca Roanhorse· Best Novel
• ✦Witchmark — C. L. Polk· Best Novel
• ✦The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections — Tina Connolly· Best Novelette
• ✦Messenger — R. R. Virdi· Best Novelette
• ✦An Agent of Utopia — Andy Duncan· Best Novelette
• ✦Messenger — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne· Best Novelette
• ✦The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births — José Pablo Iriarte· Best Novelette
• ✦The Rule of Three — Lawrence M. Schoen· Best Novelette

All 25 2019 entries →

Nebula Awards 2018

• 🏆The Stone Sky — N. K. Jemisin· Best Novel
• 🏆A Human Stain — Kelly Robson· Best Novelette
• 🏆All Systems Red — Martha Wells· Best Novella
• 🏆 Bobak Ferdowsi· Overall
• ✦Exo — Fonda Lee· Andre Norton Award
• ✦Six Wakes — Mur Lafferty· Best Novel
• ✦Spoonbenders — Daryl Gregory· Best Novel
• ✦Autonomous — Annalee Newitz· Best Novel
• ✦Amberlough — Lara Elena Donnelly· Best Novel
• ✦Jade City — Fonda Lee· Best Novel
• ✦The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter — Theodora Goss· Best Novel
• ✦Wind Will Rove· Best Novelette
• ✦A Series of Steaks — Vina Jie-Min Prasad· Best Novelette
• ✦Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time — K. M. Szpara· Best Novelette

All 27 2018 entries →

Nebula Awards 2017

• 🏆All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders· Best Novel
• 🏆The Long Fall Up — William Ledbetter· Best Novelette
• 🏆Every Heart a Doorway — Seanan McGuire· Best Novella
• ✦Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee· Best Novel
• ✦The Obelisk Gate — N. K. Jemisin· Best Novel
• ✦Borderline — Mishell Baker· Best Novel
• ✦Everfair — Nisi Shawl· Best Novel
• ✦The Jewel and Her Lapidary — Fran Wilde· Best Novelette
• ✦You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay· Best Novelette
• ✦Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea· Best Novelette
• ✦A Human Stain — Kelly Robson· Best Novelette
• ✦The Orangery — Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam· Best Novelette
• ✦Blood Grains Speak Through Memories — Jason Sanford· Best Novelette
• ✦The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe — Kij Johnson· Best Novella

All 25 2017 entries →

Nebula Awards 2016

• 🏆Updraft — Fran Wilde· Andre Norton Award
• 🏆Uprooted — Naomi Novik· Best Novel
• 🏆Our Lady of the Open Road· Best Novelette
• 🏆Binti — Nnedi Okorafor· Best Novella
• ✦Zeroboxer — Fonda Lee· Andre Norton Award
• ✦The Grace of Kings — Ken Liu· Best Novel
• ✦Ancillary Mercy — Ann Leckie· Best Novel
• ✦Raising Caine — Charles E. Gannon· Best Novel
• ✦Updraft — Fran Wilde· Best Novel
• ✦The Fifth Season — N. K. Jemisin· Best Novel
• ✦Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard — Lawrence M. Schoen· Best Novel
• ✦And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead — Brooke Bolander· Best Novelette
• ✦Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds — R. B. Lemberg· Best Novelette
• ✦The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society — Henry Lien· Best Novelette

All 27 2016 entries →

Nebula Awards 2015

• 🏆Love Is the Drug — Alaya Dawn Johnson· Andre Norton Award
• 🏆Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer· Best Novel
• 🏆A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i — Alaya Dawn Johnson· Best Novelette
• 🏆Yesterday's Kin — Nancy Kress· Best Novella
• ✦Ancillary Sword — Ann Leckie· Best Novel
• ✦Trial by Fire — Charles E. Gannon· Best Novel
• ✦The Goblin Emperor — Sarah Monette· Best Novel
• ✦The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin· Best Novel
• ✦Coming Home — Jack McDevitt· Best Novel
• ✦The Magician and Laplace's Demon — Tom Crosshill· Best Novelette
• ✦We Are the Cloud — Sam J. Miller· Best Novelette
• ✦The Husband Stitch — Carmen Maria Machado· Best Novelette
• ✦The Devil in America — Kai Ashante Wilson· Best Novelette
• ✦Sleep Walking Now and Then — Richard Bowes· Best Novelette

All 26 2015 entries →