2019 Nebula Awards Winners

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, Inc.) has announced the winners of the 55th Annual Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. The awards were presented virtually on the evening of May 30th at the 55th Annual Nebula Banquet.

Winners in green.

2019 Nebula Awards Winners

Novel

• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
• Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)

Novella

• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga; Jo Fletcher)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise (Broken Eye)

Novelette

• Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
• “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19)
• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
• “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)

Short Story

• “Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)
• “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
• “How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)

The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

• Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)
• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)
• Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)

Game Writing

• The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)
• Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
• The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
• Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)
• Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)
• Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
• The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)
• Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
• Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)

Also presented were:

Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards to John Picacio and David Gaughran.

The Kevin J. O’Donnell, Jr., Service to SFWA Award to Julia Rios.

The 35th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award to Lois McMaster Bujold.