Nebular Award 2025

[Knochenmann]

So, die Short List ist draussen:

2025 Nebula Awards®

Best Novel

When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory (Saga)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
Sour Cherry, by Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

Best Novella

“Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, by Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)”
“The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)”
“The Death of Mountains, by Jordan Kurella (Lethe)”
“Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)”
“But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)”
““Descent”, by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)”

Best Novelette

““Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, by Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)”
““Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)”
““We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)”
“The Name Ziya, by Wen-Yi Lee (Tor)”
““Never Eaten Vegetables”, by H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)”
““The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)”

Best Short Story

““Through the Machine”, by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)”
““Six People to Revise You”, by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)”
““The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, by E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)”
““In My Country”, by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)”
““Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)”
““Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)”

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Sinners, by Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)*
Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”, by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)*
Pluribus: Season One, by Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)*
Superman, by James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)*
KPop Demon Hunters, by Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)*
Murderbot: Season One, by Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

The Tower, by David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books)
Gemini Rising, by Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press)
Wishing Well, Wishing Well, by Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts)
Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
Goblin Girl, by K.A. Mielke (self-published)
Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

Best Game Writing

Spire, Surge, and Sea, by Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S.
Hollow Knight: Silksong, by Ari Gibson & William Pellen (Team Cherry)*
Dispatch, by Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios)
Hades II, by Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games)
Blue Prince, by Tonda Ros (Raw Fury, Developer: Dogubomb)

Best Comic

Second Shift, by Kit Anderson (Avery Hill)
Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, by Amy Chu (Berger)
Helen of Wyndhorn, by Tom King (Dark Horse)
Fishflies, by Jeff Lemire (Image)
Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)
Strange Bedfellows, by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)
The Flip Side, by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond)
The Stoneshore Register, by G. Willow Wilson (Berger)

Best Poem

“Though You Always Are”, by Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless)
They Said Robots Are”, by Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25)
“The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)
“The Mourning Robot”, by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)
“To Be the Change”, by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)
“Care for Lightning”, by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)

[Doop]

Drei der nominierten Romane sind bereits auf deutsch erschienen, und zwar

„The Buffalo Hunter Hunter“ von Stephen Graham Jones im Buchheim Verlag als wunderschöne signierte limitierte Hardcover-Ausgabe (hab ich ) aber auch als nicht signiertes und nicht limitiertes eBook.

„Katabasis“ von R.F. Kuang bei Eichborn. Ich denke sie holt damit den Hugo als Wiedergutmachung für die gezinkten China-Hugos.

„Tod der Autorin“ von Nnedi Okorafor bei Ullstein.

Stephen Graham Jones‘ Buch ist ein gefeierter Horror-Roman, der im Sommer auch auf Barack Obamas Leseliste stand. Ich denke, den Nebula wird er wegen des Genres eher nicht gewinnen, aber bestimmt einen Locus, den Stoker und vielleicht auch noch den Shirley Jackson Award.

Auch der Roman von Natalia Theodoridou ist ein Horror-Roman, hat aber nicht so hohe Wellen geschlagen wie der von Jones.

[Fjunch-Klick]

Tod der Autorin von Okorafor ist zu recht auf der Liste. Aber interessant ist auch Tesh. Ob das übersetzt wird?