Friday, February 20, 2015

The 50th Annual Nebula Awards Finalists Announced

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

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best outstanding dramatic presentation. The 50th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend will be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, June 4 through 7, 2015. Active members of the SFWA have between March 1st – 30th to vote.

Best Novel
'The Goblin Emperor', Katherine Addison (Tor)
'Trial by Fire', Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
'Ancillary Sword', Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
'The Three-Body Problem', Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
'Coming Home', Jack McDevitt (Ace)
'Annihilation', Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

Best Novella
'We Are All Completely Fine', Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
'Yesterday’s Kin', Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
'The Regular', Ken Liu (Upgraded)
'The Mothers of Voorhisville', Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
'Calendrical Regression', Lawrence Schoen (NobleFusion)
'Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)', Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)

Best Novelette
'Sleep Walking Now and Then', Richard Bowes (Tor.com 7/9/14)
'The Magician and Laplace’s Demon', Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 12/14)
'A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i', Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF 7-8/14)
'The Husband Stitch', Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
'We Are the Cloud', Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
'The Devil in America', Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)

Best Short Story
'The Breath of War', Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/14)
'When It Ends, He Catches Her', Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction9/26/14)
'The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye', Matthew Kressel (Clarkesworld 5/14)
'The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family', Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
'A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide', Sarah Pinsker (F&SF 3-4/14)
'Jackalope Wives', Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/7/14)
'The Fisher Queen', Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5/14)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
'Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)',
Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier',
Screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
'Edge of Tomorrow',
Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Warner Bros. Pictures)
'Guardians of the Galaxy',
Written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
'Interstellar',
Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
'The Lego Movie', Screenplay by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
'Unmade', Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
'Salvage', Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
'Love Is the Drug', Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
'Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future', A.S. King (Little, Brown)
'Dirty Wings', Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
'Greenglass House', Kate Milford (Clarion)
'The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender', Leslye Walton (Candlewick)

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