Congratulations to all the winners for our 60th anniversary Nebula Awards®! The finalists and winners were chosen this year by Full, Associate, and Senior members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), from science fiction, fantasy, and related genre works published in 2024. Winners were announced on June 7, 2025 at our 60th Nebula Awards Ceremony in Kansas City, Missouri.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)
Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)
Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)
A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Jingjing Xiao, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)
Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)
our full nebula awards list
nebula award for Novel
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy)
Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
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) *WINNER*
nebula Award for novella
The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom; Titan Books UK)
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) *WINNER*
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) *WINNER*
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) *WINNER*
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) *WINNER*
Nebula Award for Game Writing
A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Jingjing Xiao, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net) *WINNER*
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, Paul Dean (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) *WINNER*
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)
What a gift it was to celebrate all the finalists at our diamond-year Nebula Awards Conference from June 5-8, 2025. Thank you for uplifting SFF creators with us!
About the Nebula Awards®
The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by Full, Associate, and Senior members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 2,500 members, among them many of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy.
Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award. The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction was added in 2005, followed by the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation in 2009, and the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in 2018. An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is also published every year.