sfadb: Nebula Awards 2023 (original) (raw)

Novel

• Winner: Babel, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)

Novella

• Winner: Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• “Bishop's Opening”, R. S. A. Garcia (Clarkesworld Jan 2022)
• High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
• I Never Liked You Anyway, Jordan Kurella (Vernacular)
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)

Novelette

• Winner: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2022)
• “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
• “Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, S. L. Huang (Clarkesworld Dec 2022)
• “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain”, Natalia Theodoridou (Uncanny Sep 2022)
• “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold”, S. B. Divya (Uncanny May/Jun 2022)
• “We Built This City”, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld Jun 2022)

Short Story

• Winner: “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2022)
• “D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 24 Aug 2022)
• “Destiny Delayed”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Asimov's May/Jun 2022)
• “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare Jan 2022)
• “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark Mar 2022)
• “Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF May/Jun 2022)

Game Writing

• Winner: Elden Ring, Hidetaka Miyazaki & George R. R. Martin (FromSoftware, Bandai Namco)
• Horizon Forbidden West, Ben McCaw, John Gonzalez, Annie Kitain, Ariadna Martinez, Nick van Someren Brand, Andrew Walsh, Adam Dolin, Anne Toole, Arjan Terpstra, Ben Schroder, Dee Warrick, Giles Armstrong (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, Ajit A. Goerge, F. Wesley Schneider, Justice Ramin Arman, Dominique Dickey, Basheer Ghouse, Alastor Guzman, D. Fox Harrell, T. K. Johnson, Felice Tzehuei Kuan, Surena Marie, Mimi Mondal, Mario Orteg�n, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Pam Punzalan, Erin Roberts, Stephanie Yoon, Terry H. Romero (Wizards of the Coast: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Ed.)
• Pentiment, Kate Dollarhyde, Zoe Franznick, M�rten Rattasepp & Josh Sawyer (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
• Stray, Steven Lerner, Vivien Mermet-Guyenet & Colas Koola (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
• Vampire: The Masquerade -- Sins of the Sires, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games, Paradox Interactive)

— Associated Awards —

Winner

• Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (A24, AGBO, IAC Films)

Finalists

• Andor: “One Way Out”, Beau Willimon & Tony Gilroy (Lucasfilm, Disney+)
• Nope, Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
• Our Flag Means Death, Eliza Jim�nez Cossio, Zadry Ferrer-Geddes, William Meny, Maddie Dai, Alyssa Lane, John Mahone, Simone Nathan, Natalie Torres, Zackery Alexzander Stephens, Alex J. Sherman, Jes Tom, Adam Stein, Yvonne Zima (Dive, HBO Max)
• The Sandman (Season 1), Neil Gaiman, Lauren Bellow, Vanessa Benton, Mike Dringenberg, Sam Kieth, Catherine Smyth-McMullen, Heather Bellson, Jim Campolongo, Jay Franklin, Austin Guzman, Alexander Newman-Wise, Ameni Rozsa, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg (DC Entertainment, Netflix)
• Severance, Dan Erickson, Chris Black, Andrew Colville, Amanda Overton, Anna Ouyang Moench, Helen Leigh, Kari Drake, Mark Friedman (Endeavor Content, Red Hour Films, Apple TV+)

Winner

• Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion, K. Tempest Bradford (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Finalists

• Every Bird a Prince, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
• The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, Maya MacGregor (Astra)
• The Mirrorwood, Deva Fagan (Atheneum)
• The Scratch Daughters, H. A. Clarke (Erewhon)