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# Here are the finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/science-fiction-nebula-awards-finalists-sfwa-2025/
- Published: 2025-03-13T21:22:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-15T12:16:56.000Z
- Description: Honoring the best in science fiction and fantasy from 2024
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Books, Book List

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Nebula Awards, the annual prize for excellence in the science fiction and fantasy genres. The award comes from the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, who annually nominate and select their favorite stories published in the last year. 

Here are the winners from [2024](https://www.andrewliptak.com/nebula-award-sfwa-science-fiction-fantasy/), [2023](https://www.andrewliptak.com/2023-nebula-award-winners-babel-rf-kuang/), and [2022](https://www.andrewliptak.com/nebula-awards-2021/). 

Here are the finalists. This is one of those random years where I haven't read a ton of these stories: I have some reading to do! 

I've dropped links where stories are available online:

### **Nebula Award for Novel**

- *Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory* by Yaroslav Barsukov
- *Rakesfall* by Vajra Chandrasekera
- *Asunder* by Kerstin Hall
- *A Sorceress Comes to Call* by T. Kingfisher
- *The Book of Love* by Kelly Link
- *Someone You Can Build a Nest In* by John Wiswell

### **Nebula Award for Novella**

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

### **Nebula Award for Novelette**

- “[The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha%5F05%5F24/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Thomas Ha
- “[Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/katya-vasilievna-and-the-second-drowning-of-baba-rechka/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Christine Hanolsy
- “[Another Girl Under the Iron Bell](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/another-girl-under-the-iron-bell/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Angela Liu
- “[What Any Dead Thing Wants](https://psychopomp.com/what-any-dead-thing-wants/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Aimee Ogden
- “[Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita%5F11%5F24/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by A. W. Prihandita
- “[Joanna’s Bodies](https://psychopomp.com/joannas-bodies/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
- “[Loneliness Universe](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/loneliness-universe/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Eugenia Triantafyllou

### **Nebula Award for Short Story**

- “[The Witch Trap](https://smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/09/01/lady-churchills-rosebud-wristlet-no-48/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Jennifer Hudak
- “[Five Views of the Planet Tartarus](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five-views-of-the-planet-tartarus/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Rachael K. Jones
- “[Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim%5F02%5F24/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Isabel J. Kim
- “[Evan: A Remainder](https://reactormag.com/evan-a-remainder-jordan-kurella/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Jordan Kurella
- “[The V\*mpire](https://reactormag.com/the-vampire-p-h-lee/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by PH Lee
- “[We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Caroline M. Yoachim

### **Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction**

- *Daydreamer* by Rob Cameron
- *Braided* by Leah Cypess
- *Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed* by José Pablo Iriarte
- *Puzzleheart* by Jenn Reese
- *Moonstorm* by Yoon Ha Lee
- *The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts* by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

### **Nebula Award for 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 Merc Fenn
- *Wolfmoor* by Infomancy.net
- *Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree* by Hidetaka Miyazaki
- *The Ghost and the Golem* by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- Pacific Drive by Karrie Shao and Alexander Dracott
- 1000xRESIST by Remy Siu, Pinki Li, and Conor Wylie
- Restore, Reflect, Retry by Natalia Theodoridou

### **Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation**

- *KAOS* written by Charlie Covell and Georgia Christou
- *Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble”* written by Russell T. Davies
- *Wicked* written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox
- *Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5* written by Mike McMahan
- *I Saw the TV Glow* written by Jane Schoenbrun
- *Dune: Part Two* written by Jon Spaights and Denis Villeneuve

## Other Awards

#### Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

- C. J. Lavigne

What have you read on this list, and what did you enjoy the most?