The winners of the 2019 Nebula Awards were announced Saturday, May 30th during the first-ever virtual Nebula Conference, which is held by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
2020 marked the 55th annual Nebula Conference — and although this year's socially-distant event looked different than any in preceding years, the strength of the 2020 finalists and winners shows that the sci-fi and fantasy community has a bold future ahead of it.
2019 Award-Winner for Best Novel
Nominees:
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker
- Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
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2019 Award for Best Novella
Nominees:
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark
- Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
- Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise
2019 Award for Best Novelette
Nominees:
- Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo
- “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll
- “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim
2019 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
Nominees:
- Riverland, Fran Wilde
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer
- Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien
- Cog, Greg van Eekhout
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See the full list of winners below!
Short Story
- “Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt [Winner]
- “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde
- “How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise
Game Writing
- The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile [Winner]
- Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum
- The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield
- Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman [Winner]
- Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
- Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet
- The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau
- Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland
- Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof