2024 Nebula nominees!
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psocopteraHere, or below with my comments!
Nebula Award for Novel
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
The Water Outlaws, S.L. 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)
Excited to see Saint of Bright Doors on here! I haven't read the Talabi novel, and had major issues with Terraformers, which it is interesting to see SFWA didn't share.
Nebula Award for Novella
The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
“Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Disappointed not to see Last Dragoners. I haven't read Crane Husband or Linghun.
Nebula Award for 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)
Well, despite my very limited short fiction reading this year, I've read two of these. Not terrible.
Nebula Award for Short Story
“Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont“, P.A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200“, R.S.A 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)
And I've read one of these.
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)
I would like to read at least two of these.
Nebula Award for 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)
Sure.
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)
Aw, no Scavengers Reign?
"Author Martha Wells graciously declined her nomination as a novel finalist this year for System Collapse published by Tordotcom. In 2022, Wells also declined a nomination for novella and felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community."
Yeah, and also she's already on there for Witch King and you might as well not run against yourself?
Also!! This apparently got announced a bit ago and I missed it like I always do, but this year's Grandmaster (living author) goes to Susan Cooper, and the Infinity (dead author) to Tanith Lee. Sure! Susan Cooper seems very much in keeping with the "filling in the women" project, and is super widely known and beloved, and also 88 so I can see why they might have wanted to move her to the front of the line.
(My usual suspects list, of people who I think are likely or possible eventual candidates: Vernor Vinge (1944), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Neil Gaiman (1960), Ted Chiang (1967), NK Jemisin (1972), Orson Scott Card (1951, but I would still guess they'll wait until he's dead and give him the Infinity sometime), David Brin (1950, maybe also a wait for Infinity?), Nancy Kress (1948), Ursula Vernon (1977), Seanan McGuire (1978), John Varley (1947), John Scalzi (1969), Greg Egan (1961). (I don't think they will ever give it to Egan, but if I got to pick I probably would at some point.))
Meanwhile, I don't know Tanith Lee's work at all. I feel like I must have read *something* - a short story somewhere? - but I'm not coming up with anything definite. I would have put money on Diana Wynne Jones. I wonder if Susan Cooper being a children's/YA author made them want to pick someone who wrote adult for the Infinity. (Infinity suspects: still and always Diana Wynne Jones. Terry Pratchett. Zelazny, Joanna Russ, Philip K Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, Iain M Banks.)
Nebula Award for Novel
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
The Water Outlaws, S.L. 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)
Excited to see Saint of Bright Doors on here! I haven't read the Talabi novel, and had major issues with Terraformers, which it is interesting to see SFWA didn't share.
Nebula Award for Novella
The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
“Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Disappointed not to see Last Dragoners. I haven't read Crane Husband or Linghun.
Nebula Award for 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)
Well, despite my very limited short fiction reading this year, I've read two of these. Not terrible.
Nebula Award for Short Story
“Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont“, P.A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200“, R.S.A 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)
And I've read one of these.
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)
I would like to read at least two of these.
Nebula Award for 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)
Sure.
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)
Aw, no Scavengers Reign?
"Author Martha Wells graciously declined her nomination as a novel finalist this year for System Collapse published by Tordotcom. In 2022, Wells also declined a nomination for novella and felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community."
Yeah, and also she's already on there for Witch King and you might as well not run against yourself?
Also!! This apparently got announced a bit ago and I missed it like I always do, but this year's Grandmaster (living author) goes to Susan Cooper, and the Infinity (dead author) to Tanith Lee. Sure! Susan Cooper seems very much in keeping with the "filling in the women" project, and is super widely known and beloved, and also 88 so I can see why they might have wanted to move her to the front of the line.
(My usual suspects list, of people who I think are likely or possible eventual candidates: Vernor Vinge (1944), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Neil Gaiman (1960), Ted Chiang (1967), NK Jemisin (1972), Orson Scott Card (1951, but I would still guess they'll wait until he's dead and give him the Infinity sometime), David Brin (1950, maybe also a wait for Infinity?), Nancy Kress (1948), Ursula Vernon (1977), Seanan McGuire (1978), John Varley (1947), John Scalzi (1969), Greg Egan (1961). (I don't think they will ever give it to Egan, but if I got to pick I probably would at some point.))
Meanwhile, I don't know Tanith Lee's work at all. I feel like I must have read *something* - a short story somewhere? - but I'm not coming up with anything definite. I would have put money on Diana Wynne Jones. I wonder if Susan Cooper being a children's/YA author made them want to pick someone who wrote adult for the Infinity. (Infinity suspects: still and always Diana Wynne Jones. Terry Pratchett. Zelazny, Joanna Russ, Philip K Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, Iain M Banks.)
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Date: 2024-03-19 09:43 pm (UTC)