Earlier tonight, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America handed out the Nebula Award in Chicago, and this year women have swept one of science fiction’s biggest awards.
This year’s Nebula Award Banquet toastmaster was actor John Hodgeman, who opened the show with a fun performance of ‘Radio SFWA’, pitched his own novel idea, A Feast for Bros and lamented the lack of genre NPR shows such as Car Talk: Fury Road.
The science fiction world has had its share of drama with the Hugo Awards as various slates have worked aggressively to push against the growing numbers of women and people of color appearing on award ballots. The Nebula Awards have demonstrated, for two years in a row, that science fiction and fantasy literature remains a strong, inclusive body of literature.
Here are this year’s winners
(Bold indicates category winner)
Novel
- Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
- Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)
- Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor)
- Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)
Novella
- Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
- Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- ‘‘The Bone Swans of Amandale’’, C.S.E. Cooney (Bone Swans)
- ‘‘The New Mother’’, Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s 4-5/15)
- ‘‘The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn’’, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 4/22/15)
- ‘‘Waters of Versailles’’, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)
Novelette
- ‘‘Our Lady of the Open Road’’, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 6/15)
- ‘‘Rattlesnakes and Men’’, Michael Bishop (Asimov’s 2/15)
- ‘‘And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead’’, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
- ‘‘Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds’’, Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/15)
- ‘‘The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society’’, Henry Lien (Asimov’s 6/15)
- ‘‘The Deepwater Bride’’, Tamsyn Muir (F&SF 7-8/15)
Short Story
- ‘‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’’, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)
- ‘‘Madeleine’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
- ‘‘Cat Pictures Please’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)
- ‘‘Damage’’, David D. Levine (Tor.com 1/21/15)
- ‘‘When Your Child Strays From God’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 7/15)
- ‘‘Today I Am Paul’’, Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld 8/15)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Mad Max: Fury Road, Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
- Ex Machina, Written by Alex Garland
- Inside Out, Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original Story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
- Jessica Jones: AKA Smile, Teleplay by Scott Reynolds & Melissa Rosenberg; Story by Jamie King & Scott Reynolds
- The Martian, Screenplay by Drew Goddard
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Written by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)
- Seriously Wicked, Tina Connolly (Tor Teen)
- Court of Fives, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK 5/14; Amulet)
- Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace (Big Mouth House)
- Zeroboxer, Fonda Lee (Flux)
- Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)
- Bone Gap, Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
- Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
Sir Terry Pratchett was the recipient of the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, while C.J. Cherryh was named a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.