2012 Nebula Awards Winners

The 2012 Nebula Awards were presented May 18, 2013 in a ceremony at  SFWA’s 48th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, held in San Jose CA. Gene Wolfe was honored with the 2012 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.

Novel

• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
  
• Ironskin, Tina Connolly (Tor)
  
• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

Novella

• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press)
• “The Stars Do Not Lie”, Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
• “All the Flavors”, Ken Liu (GigaNotoSaurus 2/1/12)
• “Katabasis”, Robert Reed (F&SF 11-12/12)
• “Barry’s Tale”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Buffalito Buffet)

Novelette

• “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)

• The Pyre of New Day”, Catherine Asaro (The Mammoth Books of SF Wars)
• “The Waves”, Ken Liu (Asimov’s 12/12)
• “The Finite Canvas”, Brit Mandelo (Tor.com 12/5/12)
• “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
• “Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia”, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 8/22/12)
• “Fade to White”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/12)

Short Story

• “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)

• “Robot”, Helena Bell (Clarkesworld 9/12)
• “Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes”, Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 4/12)
• “Nanny’s Day”, Leah Cypess (Asimov’s 3/12)
• “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed7/12)
• “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/12)
• “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain”, Cat Rambo (Near + Far)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Beasts of the Southern Wild

• The Avengers
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Hunger Games
• John Carter
• Looper

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book

• Fair Coin, E.C. Myers (Pyr)

• Iron Hearted Violet, Kelly Barnhill (Little, Brown)
• Black Heart, Holly Black (S&S/McElderry; Gollancz)
• Above, Leah Bobet (Levine)
• The Diviners, Libba Bray (Little, Brown; Atom)
• Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst (S&S/McElderry)
• Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
• Enchanted, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
• Every Day, David Levithan (Alice A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Summer of the Mariposas, Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Tu Books)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Above World, Jenn Reese (Candlewick)

Carl Sagan and Ginjer Buchanan received Solstice Awards, and Michael H. Payne was given the Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award.