2016 Nebula Award Winners Announced

On May 20, 2017, the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America converged in Pittsburgh to hand out the  annual Nebula Awards as part of the 51st annual Nebula Conference. The Nebula Banquet was hosted by NASA astronaut Dr. Kjell Lindgren.

Included in the honors were the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, among others.

Here’s the list of winners, followed by their fellow nominees:

Novel:

• Winner: All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)

• Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)

Novella:

• Winner: Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)

• Runtime, S.B. Divya (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• ‘‘The Liar’’, John P. Murphy (F&SF 3-4/16)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette:

• Winner: ‘‘The Long Fall Up’’, William Ledbetter (F&SF 5-6/16)

• ‘‘Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea’’, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 2/16)
• ‘‘Blood Grains Speak Through Memories’’, Jason Sanford (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)
• “The Orangery“, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/8/16)
• The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
• ‘‘You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay’’, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)

Short Story:

• Winner: ‘‘Seasons of Glass and Iron“, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)

• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies’’, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
• ‘‘Sabbath Wine’’, Barbara Krasnoff (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
• ‘‘Things With Beards’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16)
• ‘‘This Is Not a Wardrobe Door’’, A. Merc Rustad (Fireside Magazine 1/16)
• ‘‘A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers’’, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/2/16)
• ‘‘Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 3/16)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation:

• Winner: Arrival

• Doctor Strange
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Westworld: ‘‘The Bicameral Mind’’
• Zootopia

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:

• Winner: Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)
• The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK; Abrams)
• Railhead, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press; Switch)
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Lindsay Ribar (Dawson)
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)

 

2017 DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD: Jane Yolen

KATE WILHELM SOLSTICE AWARD:  Peggy Rae Sapienza (Posthumous), Toni Weisskopf

KEVIN O’DONNELL JR. SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD: Jim Fiscus

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

Charlie Jane Anders also won the Crawford award earlier this year. You can read the SciFi4Me article here.

For more information on the Nebula Awards and the Conference, visit the SFWA website.