SFWA Announces 2021 Nebula Award Finalists

Mar 16, 2021

The Science Fiction Writers of America has announced the finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards. The awards are presented and voted upon by SFWA 2,000 members. The 56th Nebula Awards ceremony will take place virtually on June 5, during the Nebula Conference, which will be held June 4-6. The awards will be hosted  by Toastmaster Aydrea Walden, who is performing the duties for a second year.  An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is published every year.

Below are the Nebula Awards finalists in the literary categories:

Novel

  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
  • The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
  • Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
  • The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
  • Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
  • Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Novella

  • Tower of Mud and Straw, Yaroslav Barsukov (Metaphorosis)
  • Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
  • Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
  • "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon," Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Aurelia Leo)
  • The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
  • Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

Novelette

  • "Stepsister", Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
  • "The Pill", Meg Elison (Big Girl, PM Press)
  • "Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super", A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 5-6/20)
  • "Two Truths and a Lie", Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20)
  • "Where You Linger", Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny 1-2/20)
  • "Shadow Prisons", Caroline M. Yoachim (serialized in the Dystopia Triptych series as “The Shadow Prison Experiment”, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind”, and “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma”, Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press)

Short Story

  • "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse", Rae Carson (Uncanny 1-2/20)
  • "Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math", Aimee Picchi (Daily Science Fiction 1/3/20)
  • "A Guide for Working Breeds”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, Solaris)
  • "The Eight-Thousanders", Jason Sanford (Asimov's 9-10/20)
  • "My Country Is a Ghost", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)
  •  "Open House on Haunted Hill", John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

  • Raybearer, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
  • Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
  • A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Jenn Reese (Holt)
  • Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar (HarperTeen)
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