2016 Nebula Awards Ballot Announced

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the final ballot for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

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 (F&SF 3-4/16)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette*

• ‘‘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

• ‘‘Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies’’, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
• ‘‘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 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)

Bradbury

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

Norton

• 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)
• Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)
• Railhead, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press; Switch)
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Lindsay Ribar (Dawson)
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)

SFWA Lifetime Active and Active members are eligible to vote from March 1 to March 30, 11:59 p.m. PDT.  The final ballot will be available at SFWA.org, and paper ballots may be requested before March 15, 2017, by contacting nac@sfwa.org. Active and Lifetime Active members will receive an e-mail containing instructions on accessing the ballot.

Registration for the 2017 SFWA Nebula Awards Conference is now open. The event will take place at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh PA, May 18-21, 2017. The banquet and award ceremony are scheduled for the evening of Saturday May 20, 2017. For registration, see the Eventbrite website.

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

 

*This post was updated 2/20/17 per a late press release from the SFWA announcing that Cat Rambo’s ‘‘Red in Tooth and Cog’’ (F&SF 3-4/16) was 7,050 words, too short for the Novelette category, requiring 7,500 words. Rambo declined to be included in the the Short Story category saying, “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.”