The finalists are

2024 Nebula Awards®

Best Novel

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

Best Novella

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

Best Novelette

The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video by Thomas Ha, published by Clarkesworld
Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka by Christine Hanolsy, published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Another Girl Under the Iron Bell by Angela Liu, published by Uncanny
What Any Dead Thing Wants by Aimee Ogden, published by Psychopomp
Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being by A. W. Prihandita, published by Clarkesworld
Joanna's Bodies by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Psychopomp
Loneliness Universe by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny

Best Short Story

The Witch Trap by Jennifer Hudak, published by Lady Churchill's
Rosebud Wristlet
Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael K. Jones, published by Lightspeed Magazine
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim, published by Clarkesworld
Evan: A Remainder by Jordan Kurella, published by Reactor
The V*mpire by PH Lee, published by Reactor
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read
by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Lightspeed Magazine

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

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

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Daydreamer by Rob Cameron, published by Labyrinth Road
Braided by Leah Cypess, published by Delacorte
Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed by Jose Pablo Iriarte,
published by Knopf
Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese, published by Henry Holt
Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee, published by Delacorte and Solaris UK
The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode,
published by Self

Best Game Writing

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

Other Awards
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

C. J. Lavigne


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In article <vquliu$dsr$1@panix2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

The finalists are

2024 Nebula Awards®

Best Novel

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

Read the Kingfisher

(SNIP!)

Nothing in the other categories.

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On 14/03/25 02:11, James Nicoll wrote:

The finalists are

2024 Nebula Awards®
Best Novella
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, published by Tordotcom

Inspired by the illegal ivory trade, this tells of the reintroduction of
the Mammoth to the perma frost north of Russia in about 100 years from
now. The mind of an African elephant reserve ranger is melded with that
of a mammoth to provide leadership to failing tribes. The moral
questions and choices are fascinating. Recommended. Rather short at less
than a 100 pages, could easily have been a longer novel.

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On 14/03/25 02:11, James Nicoll wrote:

The finalists are

2024 Nebula Awards®

Best Novel

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov

Not read.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

Terrible. Nothing much happens. There is a lack of continuity from re-incarnation to re-incarnation. I do not like her prose and gave her
Saint of Bright Doors just 1 star so shouldn't even have begun this.

Asunder by Kerstin Hall

Brilliant prose, intrigue, suspense, characters and dialogue with a
fascinating background of reality distortion or interference by "gods" competing with each other with humans as pawns. It should be easy to
find a synopsis elsewhere. As in Rakesfall, two "souls" are bound
together but Asunder has the future science to explain details as well
as it being crucial to the plot with a specific mission in just one
lifetime. It took a short while to become accustomed to the names of
people, places, honorifics etc but that is my only mild grumble. Four
stars.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

Not read.

The Book of Love by Kelly Link

Sounds awful.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Whilst reality distortion might sound crazy, Kerstin Hall treats it
seriously and has the pseudo science to back it up but Wiswell's
amorphous grey blob of jelly is just as stupid as the plot is simple,
the dialogue and the character's behaviours. The only redeeming feature
was the humour in the early chapters when the jelly monster's pragmatic background contained thoughts that were not anthropomorphic. Hunters
waken this much feared monster early from hibernation so it functions
only feebly for many chapters. It has no internal workings, no blood, no organs, no brain but instead of absorbing humans simply for nutrition,
it can retain parts such as the skull and bones so that it can disguise
itself as a human, or it might retain the stomach as a bag to carry
stuff in. It also absorbs a bear trap to bite people's heads off with.
It develops feelings somehow. Absolute rubbish. Both content and prose.
Not one star; perhaps a small meteorite.
I have yet to do the research but I suspect that Wiswell is one of those
drug infested homeless street dwellers of Los Angeles who wrote this
book, (and chose his nom de plume) when in hospital recovering from a
prostrate operation.

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