Outer Wilds, Outer Worlds, Avengers, Mandalorian, Watchmen, Good Omens vie for 2019 Nebula Awards

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America will recognize the best works in those genres from the past year with 2019 Nebula Awards at the annual Nebula Conference, May 28-31, 2020, at the Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills in Los Angeles.

First presented in 1966, the Nebula Awards include four fiction awards, a game writing award (as of last year), the Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (film and television/streaming) and the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. SFWA also administers the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards, the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

The nominees for the 2019 Nebula Awards, announced on Feb. 20, 2020, are:

Novel

• 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)
• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)

Novella

• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
• 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

• “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)
• Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
• “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 9/9/29)
• “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

• 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)
• Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)

Game Writing

• Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
• The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)
• 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

• Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
• Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC 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)

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