The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced the finalists for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards® in a livestreamed presentation on March 12.  

The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 7, that will be streamed live as it is held in-person in Kansas City, MO as part of the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference. Winners in each category will be determined by the vote of Full, Associate, and Senior members of SFWA.

Here is the complete list of finalists:

NEBULA AWARD FOR NOVEL

• Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

NEBULA AWARD FOR NOVELLA

• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
• Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

NEBULA AWARD FOR NOVELETTE

• The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 5/24)
• Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka, Christine Hanolsy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/18/24)
• Another Girl Under the Iron Bell, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
• What Any Dead Thing Wants, Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp 2/24)
• Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
• Joanna’s Bodies, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
• Loneliness Universe, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

NEBULA AWARD FOR SHORT STORY

• The Witch Trap, Jennifer Hudak (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24)
• Five Views of the Planet Tartarus, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
• Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
• Evan: A Remainder, Jordan Kurella (Reactor 1/31/24)
• The V*mpire, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
• We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

ANDRE NORTON NEBULA AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION

• Daydreamer, Rob Cameron (Labyrinth Road)
• Braided, Leah Cypess (Delacorte)
• Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
• Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
• Puzzleheart, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
• The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

NEBULA AWARD FOR GAME WRITING

• A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Hidetaka Miyazaki (From Software)
• The Ghost and the Golem, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Choice of Games)
• 1000xRESIST, Remy Siu, Pinki Li, Conor Wylie (Fellow Traveller Games)
• Pacific Drive, Karrie Shao, Alexander Dracott (Ironwood Studios)
• Restore, Reflect, Retry, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
• Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut, Tony Howard-Arias, Abby Howard (Black Tabby Games)
• Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, Jay Dragon, M Veselak, Mercedes Acosta, Lillie J. Harris (Possum Creek Games)

RAY BRADBURY NEBULA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC PRESENTATION

• Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” by Russell T. Davies (BBC)
• Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
• I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun (A24 Films LLC)
• KAOS by Charlie Covell, Georgia Christou (Netflix)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 by Mike McMahan (Paramount+)
• Wicked by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox (Universal Pictures)