The Qwillery

The 2020 Nebula Awards® have been announced by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Winners in green. Best Novel

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury US and Bloomsbury UK
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, published by Orbit US and Orbit UK
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, published by Del Rey and Jo Fletcher
• The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk, published by Erewhon
• Back Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, published by Saga and Solaris
• Network Effect by Martha Wells, published by Tordotcom

Best Novella

• “Tower of Mud and Straw” by Yaroslav Barsukov, published by Metaphorosis
• Finna” by Nino Cipri, published by Tordotcom
• “Ring Shout” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tordotcom
• “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, published by Aurelia Leo
• “The Four Profound Weaves” by R.B. Lemberg, published by Tachyon
• “Riot Baby” by Tochi Onyebuchi, published by Tordotcom

Best Novelette

• “Stepsister” by Leah Cypess, published by F&SF
• “The Pill” by Meg Ellison, published by PM Press
• “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt, published by Uncanny
• “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker, published by Tor.com
• “Where You Linger” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, published by Uncanny
• “Shadow Prisons” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published by Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press

Best Short Story

• “The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sanford, published by Asimov’s
• “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math” by Aimee Picchi, published by Daily Science Fiction
• “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, published by Solaris
• “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson, published by Uncanny
• “My Country is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, published by Uncanny
• “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell, published by Diabolical Plots

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko, published by Amulet
• A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn Reese, published by Holt
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher, published by Argyll
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, published by Levine Querido
• Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar, published by HarperTeen

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• The Mandalorian: “The Tragedy” by Jon Favreau, published by Disney+ and Golem Creations/Lucasfilm 
• Lovecraft Country, Season 1 by Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Kevin Lau, Wes Taylor, Ihuoma Ofordire, Jonathan I. Kidd, and Sonya Winton-Odamtten, published by HBO Max and Bad Robot/Monkeypaw Productions/Warner Bros.Television
• Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation on One Harley Quinn by Christina Hodson, published by Warner Bros. Television and Clubhouse Pictures/DC Entertainment/Kroll & Co. Entertainment/LuckyChap Entertainment
• The Expanse: “Gaugamela” by Dan Nowak, published by Amazon Prime and Alcon Entertainment/Alcon Television Group/Amazon Studios/Hivemind/Just So
• The Old Guard by Greg Rucka, published by Netflix and Skydance Media/Denver and Delilah Productions/Marc Evans Productions
• The Good Place: “Whenever You’re Ready” by Michael Schur, published by NBC and Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal

Best Game Writing

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

Damon Knight Grand Master Award Nalo Hopkinson Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award Jarvis Sheffield
Rachel Caine
Ben Bova Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award Connie Willis

The 2020 World Fantasy Awards℠ Winners have been announced.

Statuette created by Vincent Villafranca

Winners in green. Novel

• Queen of the Conquered, by Kacen Callender (Orbit)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook Books/Orbit UK)
• The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
• The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa (trans.Stephen Snyder) (Pantheon/Harvill Secker)

Novella

• “The Butcher’s Table”, by Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell)
• Desdemona and the Deep, by C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com)
• In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
• The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Hodder & Stoughton UK)
• Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh (Tor.com)

Short Fiction

• “For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
• “Read After Burning”, by Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-Aug. 2019)
• “Blood is Another Word For Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
• “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, by Jerome Stueart (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar./Apr. 2019)
• “Everyone Knows That They‘re Dead. Do You?”, by Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)

Anthology

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
• The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• The Mythic Dream, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)

Collection

• Homesick: Stories, by Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
• Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
• Unforeseen, by Molly Gloss (Saga Press)
• A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, by John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)

Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Wendy Froud
• Kathleen Jennings

Special Award – Professional

• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
• Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin and Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction
• Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe, for the Coode Street Podcast
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor

The winners of the inaugural Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards were announced in July!

Winners is green.


Best Collection

• Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar
• Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich
• Little Paranoias, Sonora Taylor
• Out of Water, Sarah Read

Best Debut

• The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read
• Little Darlings, Melanie Golding
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling
• Theme Music, T. Marie Vandelly

Best Poetry Collection

• Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade
• Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch
• The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich

Best Novel (Tie)

• Bunny, Mona Awad
• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
• River of Souls, T.L. Bodine
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
• Without Condition, Sonora Taylor

Best Novella

• Dear Laura, Gemma Amor
• The Ladderman, Angela Archer
• The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper
• Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt
• To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger

Best Young Adult

• Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal
• House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig
• Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall
• Wilder Girls, Rory Power

Short Fiction

Honorable Mentions

• ‘Till Death Do Us Part, Peggy Christie (Dark Doorways)
  
• A Song for Wounded Mouths, Kristi DeMeester (PseudoPod 641: Artemis Rising 5)
  
• Jack-O-Lantern, Gabrielle Faust (#ScaryStories)
  
• Sun Dogs, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
  
• What Throat, Annie Neugebauer (PseudoPod 640: Artemis Rising 5)
  
• Butterflies, Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds)
  
• The Woman Next Door, Ha Seong-nan (Flowers of Mold)
  
• Quadrapocalypse, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)
  
• Weary Bones, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)

Winners for the Hugo Awards, for the Lodestar for Best Young Adult Book, and for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer have been announced at CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon.Winners of the Retro Hugo Awards for 1945 also have been announced.

Please note the CoNZealand was held virtually due to the pandemic. DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, will be held in Washington, DC, August 25 - August 29, 2021.

Winner in green.





Best Novel

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)

Best Novella

• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador)))
•  The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga Press; Jo Fletcher Books)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)

Best Novelette

• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)
• “Away with the Wolves”, Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2019 7-8/19)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))
• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))

Best Short Story

• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons September 9, 2019)
• “As the Last I May Know”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com, October 23, 2019)
• “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Janusry/February 2019) 
• “Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies,  January 2019)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)

Best Series

• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• InCryptid, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
• Luna, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• Planetfall, Emma Newman (Ace; Gollancz)
• Winternight, Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• The Wormwood Trilogy, Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Related Work

• Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood, J. Michael Straczynski (Harper Voyager US)
• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press (Modern Masters of Science Fiction))
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O’Meara (Hanover Square)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
• “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, Jeannette Ng (Dublin 2019 — An Irish Worldcon)
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, produced and directed by Arwyn Curry

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles (Image)
• LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, illustrated by Tana Ford, colors by James Devlin (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
• Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)
• Mooncakes, Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, letters by Joamette Gil (Oni Press; Lion Forge)
• Paper Girls, Volume 6, written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Cliff Chiang, colors by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image)
• The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 9: Okay, written by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie, colors by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cole (Image Comics)
  

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Avengers: Endgame, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, screenplay by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios/Animal Logic (Australia))
• Good Omens, written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios/Narrativia/The Blank Corporation)
• Russian Doll (Season One), created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, directed by Leslye Headland, Jamie Babbit and Natasha Lyonne (3 Arts Entertainment/Jax Media/Netflix/Paper Kite Productions/Universal Television)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, screenplay by Chris Terrio and J.J. Abrams, directed by J.J. Abrams (Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm/Bad Robot)
• Us, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions/Universal Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Good Place: “The Answer”, written by Daniel Schofield, directed by Valeria Migliassi Collins (Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal Television)
• The Expanse: “Cibola Burn”, written by Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck and Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Amazon Prime Video)
• Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, written by Jeff Jensen and Damon Lindelof, directed by Nicole Kassell (HBO)
• The Mandalorian: “Redemption”, written by Jon Favreau, directed by Taika Waititi (Disney+)
• Doctor Who: “Resolution”, written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Wayne Yip (BBC)
• Watchmen: “This Extraordinary Being”, written by Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, directed by Stephen Williams (HBO)

Best Editor, Short Form

• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

• Sheila E. Gilbert
• Brit Hvide
• Diana M. Pho
• Devi Pillai
• Miriam Weinberg
• Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• John Picacio
• Yuko Shimizu
• Alyssa Winans

Best Semiprozine

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor Scott H. Andrews
• Escape Pod, editors Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya, assistant editor Benjamin C. Kinney, audio producers Adam Pracht and Summer Brooks, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart
• Fireside Magazine, editor Julia Rios, managing editor Elsa Sjunneson, copyeditor Chelle Parker, social coordinator Meg Frank, publisher and art director Pablo Defendini, founding editor Brian White
• FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, executive editor Troy L. Wiggins, editors Eboni Dunbar, Brent Lambert, L.D. Lewis, Danny Lore, Brandon O’Brien and Kaleb Russell
• Strange Horizons, Vanessa Rose Phin, Catherine Krahe, AJ Odasso, Dan Hartland, Joyce Chng, Dante Luiz and the Strange Horizons staff
• Uncanny Magazine, editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, nonfiction/managing editor Michi Trota, managing editor Chimedum Ohaegbu, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

• The Book Smugglers, editors Ana Grilo and Thea James
• Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus, senior writers Rosemary Benton, Lorelei Marcus and Victoria Silverwolf
• Journey Planet, editors James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Alissa McKersie, Ann Gry, Chuck Serface, John Coxon and Steven H Silver
• nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla, and The G
• Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur
• The Rec Center, editors Elizabeth Minkel and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Best Fancast

• Be The Serpent, presented by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske and Jennifer Mace
• Claire Rousseau’s YouTube channel, produced & presented by Claire Rousseau
• The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
• Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, producer Andrew Finch
• Our Opinions Are Correct, presented by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show, presented by Jen Zink and Shaun Duke

Best Fan Writer

• Cora Buhlert
• James Davis Nicoll
• Alasdair Stuart
• Bogi Takács
• Paul Weimer
• Adam Whitehead

Best Fan Artist

• Iain Clark
• Sara Felix
• Grace P. Fong
• Meg Frank
• Ariela Housman
• Elise Matthesen

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (Not a Hugo)

• Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Deeplight, by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
• Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney/Hyperion)
• Minor Mage, by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Riverland, by Fran Wilde (Amulet)
• The Wicked King, by Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer sponsored by Dell Magazine (Not a Hugo)

• Sam Hawke (2nd year of eligibility)
• R.F. Kuang (2nd year of eligibility)
• Jenn Lyons (1st year of eligibility)
• Nibedita Sen (2nd year of eligibility)
• Tasha Suri (2nd year of eligibility)
• Emily Tesh (1st year of eligibility)

Best Novel

• The Golden Fleece, by Robert Graves (Cassell)
• Land of Terror, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)
• “Shadow Over Mars” (The Nemesis from Terra), by Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories, Fall 1944)
• Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord, by Olaf Stapledon (Secker & Warburg)
• The Wind on the Moon, by Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
• “The Winged Man”, by A.E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull (Astounding Science Fiction, May-June 1944)

Best Novella

• “The Changeling”, by A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction, April 1944)
• “A God Named Kroo”, by Henry Kuttner (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1944)
• “Intruders from the Stars”, by Ross Rocklynne (Amazing Stories, January 1944)
• “The Jewel of Bas”, by Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories, Spring 1944)
• “Killdozer!”, by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)
• “Trog”, by Murray Leinster (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1944)

Best Novelette

• “Arena”, by Fredric Brown (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1944)
• “The Big and the Little” (“The Merchant Princes”), by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1944)
• “The Children’s Hour”, by Lawrence O’Donnell (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1944)
• “City”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1944)
• “No Woman Born”, by C.L. Moore (Astounding Science Fiction, December 1944)
• “When the Bough Breaks”, by Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)

Best Short Story

• “And the Gods Laughed”, by Fredric Brown (Planet Stories, Spring 1944)
• “Desertion”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)
• “Far Centaurus”, by A. E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction, January 1944)
• “Huddling Place”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, July 1944)
• “I, Rocket”, by Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories, May 1944)
• “The Wedge” (“The Traders”), by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1944)

Best Series

• Captain Future, by Brett Sterling
• The Cthulhu Mythos, by H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others
• Doc Savage, by Kenneth Robeson/Lester Dent
• Jules de Grandin, by Seabury Quinn
• Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Shadow, by Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)

Best Related Work

• Fancyclopedia, by Jack Speer (Forrest J. Ackerman)
• ’42 To ’44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behavior During the Crisis of the World Revolution, by H.G. Wells (Secker & Warburg)
• Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom, by George Gamow (Cambridge University Press)
• Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere, by Willy Ley (Viking Press)
• “The Science-Fiction Field”, by Leigh Brackett (Writer’s Digest, July 1944)
• “The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Suggestions for a Critical Appraisal”, by Fritz Leiber (The Acolyte, Fall 1944)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Buck Rogers: “Hollow Planetoid”, by Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
• Donald Duck: “The Mad Chemist”, by Carl Barks (Dell Comics)
• Flash Gordon: “Battle for Tropica”, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• Flash Gordon: “Triumph in Tropica”, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• The Spirit: “For the Love of Clara Defoe”, by Manly Wade Wellman, Lou Fine and Don Komisarow (Register and Tribune Syndicate)
• Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk”, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (Detective Comics, Inc.)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Canterville Ghost, screenplay by Edwin Harvey Blum from a story by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jules Dassin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
• The Curse of the Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Gunther V. Fritsch and Robert Wise (RKO Radio Pictures)
• Donovan’s Brain, adapted by Robert L. Richards from a story by Curt Siodmak, producer, director and editor William Spier (CBS Radio Network)
• House of Frankenstein, screenplay by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. from a story by Curt Siodmak, directed by Erle C. Kenton (Universal Pictures)
• The Invisible Man’s Revenge, written by Bertram Millhauser, directed by Ford Beebe (Universal Pictures)
• It Happened Tomorrow, screenplay and adaptation by Dudley Nichols and René Clair, directed by René Clair (Arnold Pressburger Films)

Best Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Oscar J. Friend
• Mary Gnaedinger
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• W. Scott Peacock

Best Professional Artist

• Earle Bergey
• Margaret Brundage
• Boris Dolgov
• Matt Fox
• Paul Orban
• William Timmins

Best Fanzine

• The Acolyte, edited by Francis T. Laney and Samuel D. Russell
• Diablerie, edited by Bill Watson
• Futurian War Digest, edited by J. Michael Rosenblum
• Shangri L’Affaires, edited by Charles Burbee
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation, edited by Forrest J. Ackerman and Myrtle R. Douglas
• Le Zombie, edited by Bob Tucker and E.E. Evans

Best Fan Writer

• Fritz Leiber
• Morojo/Myrtle R. Douglas
• J. Michael Rosenblum
• Jack Speer
• Bob Tucker
• Harry Warner, Jr.

The Winners of the  2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ). The Sir Julius Vogel Awards recognize excellence in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by New Zealanders. Winners were chosen by SFFANZ members and CoNZealand members and were announced on July 30, 2020


Winners in green.



PROFESSIONAL AWARD WINNERS

Best Novel

• The Blacksmith, Barbara Howe (IFWG Australia)
• The Prince of Secrets, A.J. Lancaster (Camberion)
• Solar Federation, S.E. Mulholland (self-published)
• Into the Ashes, Lee Murray (Severed)
• The Dawnhounds, Sascha Stronach (Little Hook)

Best Youth Novel

• Light in My Blood, Jean Gilbert & William Dresden (Rogue House)
• Tyrelia, SR Manssen (Manssen)
• Dragon Rift, Eileen Mueller (Phantom Feather)
• The Clockhill and the Thief, Gareth Ward (Walker Australia)
• Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, Felicity Williams (The Cuba Press)

Best Novella/Novelette

• From a Shadow Grave, Andi C. Buchanan (Paper Road)
• “Hunger’s Truth”, A.J. Fitzwater (Gigantosaurus 4/19)
• We All Fall, Helen Vivienne Fletcher (HVF)
• Would She Be Gone, Melanie Harding-Shaw (self-published)
• “Ventiforms”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 1-2/19)

Best Short Story

• “Work and Income Gothic”, Jack Remiel Cottrell (Flash Frontier 12/19)
• “The Fisher”, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Newsroom 10/5/19)
• “A Shriek Across the Sky”, Casey Lucas (Sponge 5/5/19)
• “Chasing Oumuamua”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 5/19)
• “Losing Face”, Lee Murray (Tales of the Lost, Volume 1: We All Lose Something!)
• “Proof of Concept”, James Rowland (New Myths 12/19)

Best Collected Work

• Beyond the City Limits, Kura Carpenter, ed. (Wicked Unicorn)
• Flash Frontier: Speculative Fiction Issue, A.J. Fitzwater & Tim Jones, eds.
• Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 1, Marie Hodgkinson, ed. (Paper Road)
• Into the Mire, Casey Lucas (self-published)
• Dark Winds Over Wellington, Tabatha Wood (Wild Woods)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover for The Dawnhounds, Pepper Curry
• Illustrations for Tio Tiamu/The Smelly Giant, Laya Rose
• Cover for Dragon Pearl, Vivienne To
• Cover for From a Shadow Grave, Emma Weakley

Best Professional Production/Publication

• Haunt.d, Kezia Tubbs
• Swords: The Webcomic, Matthew Willis

Best Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade, David Bishop (BBC Audio)

FAN AWARD WINNERS

Best Fan Artwork

• “Wandering Wild”, Michelle Kan
• “Aliens vs Geysers”, Kat Oliver
• “Deet”, Laya Rose
• “Wilder Girls”, Laya Rose

Best Fan Production/Publication

• Consequence LARP
• GeyserCon con book
• Phoenixine
• Plant Life

Best Fan Writing

• “Welcome to the Con”, Grace Bridges (GeyserCon con book)
• SITREP, Alex Lindsay (Phoenixine)

SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

Best New Talent

• Melanie Harding-Shaw
• A.J. Lancaster
• Denika Mead
• Stephen Mulholland
• Sascha Stronach

Services to Fandom

• Grace Bridges

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Melanie Harding-Shaw

The winners of the 2019 Aurealis Awards have been announced.


The Aurealis Awards are for works of speculative fiction created by an Australian citizen or permanent resident, and published for the first time between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.


Winners in green.






BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

• Scorch Dragons, Amie Kaufman (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Race for the Red Dragon, Rebecca Lim (Allen & Unwin)
• The Dog Runner, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
• Jinxed!: The Curious Curse of Cora Bell, Rebecca McRitchie (author) & Sharon O’Connor(illustrator) (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Glimme, Emily Rodda (Omnibus Books)
• The Lost Stone of SkyCity, Heather Waugh (Fremantle Press)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

• Haphaven, Louie Joyce (Lion Forge)
• Yahoo Creek, Tohby Riddle (Allen & Unwin)
• Black Magick, Greg Rucka & Nicola Scott (Image Comics)
• Super Nova, Krys Saclier (Ford Street Publishing)
• Sherlock Bones and the Natural History Mystery, Renee Treml (Allen & Unwin)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• The Jindabyne Secret, Jo Hart (Deadset Press)
• Glass-Heart, K S Nikakis (SOV Media)
• “Dragon by Subscription”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Patreon, self-published)
• “Seaweed”, Andrea Teare (Breach #11)
• “Each City”, Ellen Van Neerven (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories, Walker Books Australia)
• “Rats”, Marlee Jane Ward (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories, Walker Books Australia)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

• “Loose Stones”, Joanne Anderton (Infinite Threads, Brio Books)
• “The Mark”, Grace Chan (Verge 2019: Uncanny, Monash University Publishing)
• “Pilgrimage”, Matthew R Davis (Breach #10)
• “The Unwrapping”, Terry Dowling (Echoes)
• “Of Meat and Man”, Jason Fischer (SNAFU: Last Stand, Cohesion Press)
• “Vivienne and Agnes”, Chris Mason (Beside the Seaside – Tales from the Day Tripper)
• “The Moth Tapes”, J Ashley Smith (Aurealis #117, Chimaera Publications)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

• “Yellowheart”, Alan Baxter (Served Cold, Grey Matter Press)
• “Supermassive Black Mass”, Matthew R Davis (Short Sharp Shocks! #21)
• “Into Bones Like Oil”, Kaaron Warren (Into Bones Like Oil, Meerkat Press)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

• “Loose Stones”, Joanne Anderton (Infinite Threads, Brio Books)
• “1078 Reasons”, Aidan Doyle (Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 1)
• “Pigshit and Gold”, Aiki Flinthart (Dimension6 #18, coeur de lion)
• “CurioQueens”, Ephiny Gale (Constellary Tales Magazine #4)
• “Good Dog, Alice”, Juliet Marillier (Wonderland, Titan Books)
• “Dragon by Subscription”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Patreon, self-published)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

• “Like Ripples on a Blank Shore”, J S Breukelaar (Collision: Stories, Meerkat Press)
• “The Orchard”, Ephiny Gale (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #76)
• “Out of Darkness“, Chris Mason (Tales of the Lost, Things in the Well)
• “‘Scapes Made Diamond”, Shauna O’Meara (Interzone 280)
• “To Hell and Back”, Michael Pryor (Aurealis #120, Chimaera Publications)
• “The Final Prologue”, Christopher Sequeira (Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not, IFWG Publishing Australia)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• “Sky Tears”, Mike Adamson (Alien Dimensions #17, Maldek House)
• “Wreck Diving”, Joanne Anderton (Aurealis #123, Chimaera Publications)
• “Riding the Snails”, Jason Fischer (War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia, Clan Destine Press)
• “Canute”, RPL Johnson (SNAFU: Last Stand, Cohesion Press
• “What We Named the Needle”, Freya Marske (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Issue Jul/Aug 2019, Penny Publications)
• “Micro”, Angela Meyer (Kill Your Darlings, Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Showcase 2019)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• “Ventiforms”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
• “‘Scapes Made Diamond”, Shauna O’Meara (Interzone 280)
• “You Will Remember Who You Were”, Cat Sparks (Dimension6 #16)
• Prisoncorp, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)

BEST COLLECTION

• Collision: Stories, J S Breukelaar (Meerkat Press)
• Blackbirds Sing, Aiki Flintoff (CAT Press)
• Scar Tissue and Other Stories, Narrelle M Harris (Clan Destine Press)
• Five Dragons, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink Press)
• Stray Bats, Margo Lanagan (Small Beer Press)
• Men and Machines I: Space Operas and Special Ops, Charlie Nash (Flying Nun Publications)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, Michael Earp (Ed.) (Walker Books Australia)
• Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not, Christopher Sequeira (Ed.) (IFWG Publishing Australia)
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 13, Jonathan Strahan (Ed.) (Solaris)
• Mission: Critical, Jonathan Strahan (Ed.) (Solaris)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• The Darkest Bloom, P M Freestone (Scholastic)
• Ghost Bird, Lisa Fuller (UQP)
• Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Dev1at3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• The Harp of Kings, Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
• I Heard The Wolf Call My Name, K S Nikakis (SOV Media)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

• Chuwa: The Rat People of Lahore, Brian Craddock (Broken Puppet Books)
• Remains, Andrew Cull (IFWG Pub Aus)
• A Riddle in Bronze, Simon Haynes (Bowman Press)
• The Rich Man’s House, Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
• Body Farm Z, Deborah Sheldon (Severed Press)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• Darkdawn, Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Wailing Woman, Maria Lewis (Little, Brown Book Group)
• The Harp of Kings, Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
• The Darkest Bloom, P M Freestone (Scholastic)
• Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, Michael Pryor (Allen & Unwin)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Subjects, Sarah Hopkins (Text Publishing)
• Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• The Trespassers, Meg Mundell (UQP)
• The Year of the Fruit Cake, Gillian Polack (IFWG Publishing Australia)
• The Glad Shout, Alice Robinson (Affirm Press)
• Daughter of Bad Times, Rohan Wilson (Allen & Unwin)

CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE

• Watermarks: Science Fiction, Mitigation and the Mosaic Novel Structure in Australian Climate Fiction, Jason Nahrung (PhD thesis, University of Queensland)

The 2020 Locus Awards Winners have been announced. Winners were announced June 27, 2020 at the virtual Locus Awards Weekend.  Winners in green.




SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
• Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
• The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit US and UK)
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
• A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit US and UK)
• Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit US and UK)
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
• Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• The Iron Dragon’s Mother, Michael Swanwick (Tor)
• Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

HORROR NOVEL

• Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
• Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
• Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
• The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US and UK)
• The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, Kim Newman (Titan US and UK)
• The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit US and UK)
• The Toll, Cherie Priest (Tor)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
• The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
• Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
• Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
• Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
• Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
• Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

NOVELLA

• “A Time to Reap“, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 12/19)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga)
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
• Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• The Ascent to Godhood, JY Neon Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• “Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear (F&SF 9-10/19)
• “For He Can Creep“, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• “A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
• “Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
• “The Justified”, Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
• “Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
• “Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)

SHORT STORY

• “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States)
• “Lest We Forget", Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns)
• “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning“, Ted Chiang (New York Times 5/27/19)
• “Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher (The Mythic Dream)
• “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married“, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review 12/27/19)
• “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear“, Kelly Link (Tin House ’19)
• “Thoughts and Prayers“, Ken Liu (Future Tense 1/26/19)
• “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
• “A Catalog of Storms“, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)

ANTHOLOGY

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
• Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US and UK)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US and UK)
• Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US and UK)
• The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

COLLECTION

• Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf; Picador)
• Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
• Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
• Full Throttle, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• Meet Me in the Future, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
• The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon)
• The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz)
• Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US and UK)
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File 770
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Harper Voyager
• Orbit
• Saga
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tachyon
• Tor

EDITOR

• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams
• Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• Kathleen Jennings
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Desirina Boskovich, ed. (Abrams Image)
• The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction, Damien Broderick (Springer)
• Reading Backwards: Essays and Reviews, 2005-2018, John Crowley (Subterranean)
• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
• Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Markley (University of Illinois Press)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
• Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor (Simon & Schuster/TED)
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O’Meara (Hanover Square)
• HG Wells: A Literary Life, Adam Roberts (Palgrave)

ILLUSTRATED OR ART BOOK

• The Illustrated World of Tolkien, David Day (Thunder Bay; Pyramid)
• Julie Dillon, Daydreamer’s Journey (Julie Dillon)
• Ed Emshwiller, Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller, Jesse Pires, ed. (Anthology Editions)
• Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Donato Giancola, Middle-earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend (Dark Horse)
• Raya Golden, Starport, George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
• Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures, Mark A. Nelson (Dover)
• Tran Nguyen, Ambedo: Tran Nguyen (Flesk)
• Yuko Shimizu, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde (Beehive)
• Bill Sienkiewicz, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells (Beehive)

SPECIAL AWARD 2020: INCLUSIVITY AND REPRESENTATION EDUCATION

• Writing the Other, Nisi Shawl, Cynthia Ward, & K. Tempest Bradford

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, Inc.) has announced the winners of the 55th Annual Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. The awards were presented virtually on the evening of May 30th at the 55th Annual Nebula Banquet.

Winners in green.



Novel

• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
• Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)

Novella

• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Saga; Jo Fletcher)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise (Broken Eye)

Novelette

• Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)
• “A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19)
• “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
• “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)

Short Story

• “Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)
• “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
• “How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)

The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

• Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)
• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)
• Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)

Game Writing

• The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)
• Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)
• The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
• Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)
• Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)
• Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)
• Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)
• The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)
• Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
• Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)

Also presented were:

Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards to John Picacio and David Gaughran.

The Kevin J. O’Donnell, Jr., Service to SFWA Award to Julia Rios.

The 35th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award to Lois McMaster Bujold.

On April 18, 2020, the Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the winners of the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards®.




Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Goingback, Owl – Coyote Rage (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Malerman, Josh – Inspection (Del Rey)
• Miskowski, S.P. – The Worst is Yet to Come (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Murray, Lee – Into the Ashes (Severed Press)
• Wendig, Chuck – Wanderers (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Amor, Gemma – Dear Laura (Independently Published)
• Guignard, Eric J. – Doorways to the Deadeye (JournalStone)
• Lane, Michelle Renee – Invisible Chains (Haverhill House Publishing)
• Read, Sarah – The Bone Weaver’s Orchard (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Starling, Caitlin – The Luminous Dead (Harper Voyager)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Bérubé, Amelinda – Here There Are Monsters (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Dávila Cardinal, Ann – Five Midnights (Tor Teen)
• Gardner, Liana – Speak No Evil (Vesuvian Books)
• Marshall, Kate Alice – Rules for Vanishing (Viking Books for Young Readers)
• Nzondi – Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum)
• Salomon, Peter Adam – Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds (PseudoPsalms Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish Vol. 2 (BOOM! Studios)
• Doran, Cullen and Gaiman, Neil – Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Books)
• Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 4: The Chosen (Image Comics)
• Manzetti, Alessandro – Calcutta Horror (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Tanabe, Gou – H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Volume 1 (Dark Horse Manga)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• LaValle, Victor – Up from Slavery (Weird Tales Magazine#363) (Weird Tales Inc.)
• Manzetti, Alessandro – The Keeper of Chernobyl (Omnium Gatherum)
• Taborska, Anna – The Cat Sitter (Shadowcats) (Black Shuck Books)
• Tantlinger, Sara – To Be Devoured (Unnerving)
• Warren, Kaaron – Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Shorts)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Chapman, Greg – “The Book of Last Words” (This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories) (Things in the Well Publishing)
• Kiste, Gwendolyn – “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2019, Issue 86)
• Landry, Jess – “Bury Me in Tar and Twine” (Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We All Lose Something!) (Things in the Well Publishing)
• O’Quinn, Cindy – “Lydia” (The Twisted Book of Shadows) (Twisted Publishing)
• Waggoner, Tim – “A Touch of Madness”(The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias) (LVP Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Chiang, Ted – Exhalation: Stories (Knopf)
• Jonez, Kate – Lady Bits (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Langan, John – Sefira and Other Betrayals (Hippocampus Press)
• Read, Sarah – Out of Water (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Tremblay, Paul – Growing Things and Other Stories (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Aster, Ari – Midsommar (B-Reel Films, Square Peg)
• Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things (Season 3, Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt) (Netflix)
• Eggers, Robert and Eggers, Max – The Lighthouse (A24, New Regency Pictures, RT Features)
• Flanagan, Mike – Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros., Intrepid Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment)
• Peele, Jordan – Us (Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Universal Pictures)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Brozek, Jennifer – A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods (Pulse Publishing)
• Datlow, Ellen – Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Gallery/Saga Press)
• Golden, Christopher and Moore, James A. – The Twisted Book of Shadows (Twisted Publishing)
• Guignard, Eric J. – Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (Dark Moon Books)
• Wilson, Robert S. – Nox Pareidolia (Nightscape Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Beal, Eleanor and Greenaway, Jonathan – Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality (University of Wales Press)
• Earle, Harriet E.H. – Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays (McFarland)
• Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra – Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press)
• Kachuba, John B. – Shapeshifters: A History (Reaktion Books)
• Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Quirk Books)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• Kiste, Gwendolyn – “Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman” (Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 1)
• Liaguno, Vince A. – “Slasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre” (LGBTQ+ Horror Month: 9/1/2019, Ginger Nuts of Horror)
• Renner, Karen J. – “The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story” (Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging) (McFarland)
• Robinson, Kelly – “Film’s First Lycanthrope: 1913’s The Werewolf” (Scary Monsters Magazine #114)
• Weich, Valerie E. – “Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200^th Anniversary of The Vampyre” (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue #291)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Addison, Linda D. and Manzetti, Alessandro – The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Cade, Octavia – Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press)
• Lynch, Donna – Choking Back the Devil (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Scalise, Michelle – Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning (LVP Publications)
• Simon, Marge and Dietrich, Bryan D. – The Demeter Diaries (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Wytovich, Stephanie M. – The Apocalyptic Mannequin (Raw Dog Screaming Press)