Here are the finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Nebula Awards, the annual prize for excellence in the science fiction and fantasy genres. The award comes from the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, who annually nominate and select their favorite stories published in the last year.

Here are the winners from 2024, 2023, and 2022.

Here are the finalists. This is one of those random years where I haven't read a ton of these stories: I have some reading to do!

I've dropped links where stories are available online:

Nebula Award for Novel

• Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov
• Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Asunder by Kerstin Hall
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• The Book of Love by Kelly Link
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Nebula Award for Novella

• The Butcher and the Forest by Premee Mohamed
• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
• Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
• Countess by Suzan Palumbo
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui

Nebula Award for Novelette

• “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha
• “Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka” by Christine Hanolsy
• “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu
• “What Any Dead Thing Wants” by Aimee Ogden
• “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A. W. Prihandita
• “Joanna’s Bodies” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
• “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou

Nebula Award for Short Story

• “The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones
• “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim
• “Evan: A Remainder” by Jordan Kurella
• “The V*mpire” by PH Lee
• “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Daydreamer by Rob Cameron
• Braided by Leah Cypess
• Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed by José Pablo Iriarte
• Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese
• Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

Nebula Award for Game Writing

• A Death in Hyperspace by Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, and Merc Fenn
• Wolfmoor by Infomancy.net
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree by Hidetaka Miyazaki
• The Ghost and the Golem by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Pacific Drive by Karrie Shao and Alexander Dracott
• 1000xRESIST by Remy Siu, Pinki Li, and Conor Wylie
• Restore, Reflect, Retry by Natalia Theodoridou

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• KAOS written by Charlie Covell and Georgia Christou
• Doctor Who: “Dot and Bubble” written by Russell T. Davies
• Wicked written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox 
• Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 written by Mike McMahan
• I Saw the TV Glow written by Jane Schoenbrun
• Dune: Part Two written by Jon Spaights and Denis Villeneuve

Other Awards

Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

• C. J. Lavigne

What have you read on this list, and what did you enjoy the most?