2020 Nebula Awards Winners

Novel

• WINNER: Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
• Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)

Novella

• WINNER: Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)

• “Tower of Mud and Straw”, Yaroslav Barsukov (Metaphorosis 9/25/20)
• Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
• “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon”, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald (Dominion)
• The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
• Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

Novelette

• WINNER: “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20)

• “Stepsister”, Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
• “The Pill”, Meg Elison (Big Girl)
• “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 05-06/20)
• “Where You Linger”, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “Shadow Prisons”, Caroline M. Yoachim (serialized in the Dystopian Triptych series as “The Shadow Prison Experiment”, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind”, “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma”)

Short Story

• WINNER: “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)

• “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse”, Rae Carson (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math”, Aimee Picchi (Daily Science Fiction 1/3/20)
• “A Guide for Working Breeds”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Made to Order)
• “The Eight-Thousanders”, Jason Sanford (Asimov’s 9/10-20)
• “My Country Is a Ghost”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)

Game Writing

• WINNER: Hades, Greg Kasavin (Supergiant)

• Blaseball, Stephen Bell, Joel Clark & Sam Rosenthal (The Game Band)
• Kentucky Route Zero, Jake Elliott (Cardboard Computer)
• The Luminous Underground, Phoebe Barton (Choice of Games)
• Scents & Semiosis, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson & Yoon Ha Lee (Self)
• Spiritfarer, Nicolas Guérin, Maxime Monast & Alex Tommi-Morin (Thunder Lotus)

Ray Bradbury Award

• WINNER: The Good Place: “Whenever You’re Ready”

• Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
• The Expanse: “Gaugamela”
• Lovecraft Country, Season 1
• The Mandalorian: “The Tragedy”
• The Old Guard

Andre Norton Award

• WINNER: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)

• Raybearer, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
• Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Jenn Reese (Holt)
• Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar (HarperTeen)