SFWA Announces Nebula Award Nominees, Heinlein Award

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America have announced their nominees for this year’s Nebula Awards, with a corrected ballot that was announced on February 20th.

Due to an error in word count verification, Cat Rambo’s “Red in Tooth and Cog” was replaced on the Novelette ballot by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s “The Orangery”. Turns out Rambo’s work came in with a word count under the eligibility threshold of 7,500 words.

Rambo, who’s also the current president of the SFWA, said, “The Nebula Awards are about celebrating amazing works by talented writers in our genre. I choose to see the silver lining in that we elevate another writer to the stage, and keep the ballot otherwise intact.”

 

Novel

• 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

• 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)
• Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• “The Liar”, John P. Murphy (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette      

• “The Long Fall Up”, William Ledbetter (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed)
• “Blood Grains Speak Through Memories”, Jason Sanford (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• “The Orangery”, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
• The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny)

Short Story

• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny)
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “Sabbath Wine”, Barbara Krasnoff (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
• “Things With Beards”, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)
• “This Is Not a Wardrobe Door”, A. Merc Rustad (Fireside Magazine)
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com)
• “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed)

In addition to the Nebulas, the SFWA also presents the Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

Bradbury

• Arrival, Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Screenplay by Eric Heisserer, 21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films/Xenolinguistics
• Doctor Strange, Directed by Scott Derrickson, Screenplay by Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill, Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures
• Kubo and the Two Strings, Directed by Travis Knight, Screenplay by Mark Haimes & Chris Butler; Laika Entertainment
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Directed by Gareth Edwards, Written by Chris Weitz & Tony Gilroy; Lucusfilm/ Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures
• Westworld: ‘‘The Bicameral Mind’’, Directed by Jonathan Nolan, Written by Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan; HBO
• Zootopia, Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, & Jared Bush, Screenplay by Jared Bush & Phil Johnston; Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios

Norton

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

The latest Grand Master to be added to the roster is Jane Yolen, who was selected in November 2016. Yolen’s reaction: “To know I am now on the same list as Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, and Ursula Le Guin is the kind of shock to the system that makes me want to write better each day. Revise, revision, and reinvent.”

Voting will begin among active members on March 1, 2017, with the award presentation during the 51st annual Nebula Conference, held this year May 18-21 in Pittsburgh, PA at the Marriott City Center.

 

First presented in 1966, the Nebulas are given to the best works of science fiction and fantasy published in the United States as selected by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, made up of professional science fiction and fantasy authors.

More information here: http://nebulas.sfwa.org/nebula-conference/

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The SFWA has also announced that this year’s Robert A. Heinlein Award for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space” will be presented to Robert J. Sawyer.

The award will be presented during the 51st Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention (Balticon 51), and Sawyer will join via Skype while he attends ConQuesT in Kansas City.

The Heinlein Award was founded by the Grand Master’s long time friend Dr. Yoji Kondo, and recipients are selected by a committee of science fiction writers.

More information here: http://www.sfwa.org/2017/02/robert-j-sawyer-wins-2017-robert-heinlein-award/