oscaround | Nebulas

Best Novel

Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)

Katabasis

R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

Sour Cherry

Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)

The Incandescent

Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)

Wearing the Lion

John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

When We Were Real

Daryl Gregory (Saga)

Best Novella

Automatic Noodle

Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)

But Not Too Bold

Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)

Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle

Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)

The Death of Mountains

Jordan Kurella (Lethe)

The River Has Roots

Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)

“Descent”

by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)

Best Novelette

The Name Ziya

Wen-Yi Lee (Reactor)

“Never Eaten Vegetables”

by H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)

“Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”

by Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)

“The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as WrittenTitos Pavlou and ReviewedTwo Lifelong Friends”

by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)

“Uncertain Sons”

Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)

“We Begin Where Infinity Ends”

by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)

Best Short Story

“Because I Held His Name Like a Key”

by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)

“In My Country”

by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)

“Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”

by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 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)

“Through the Machine”

by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)

Middle Grade And Young Adult Fiction

Gemini Rising

Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press)

Goblin Girl

K.A. Mielke (self-published)

Into the Wild Magic

Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)

Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

The Tower

David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books)

Wishing Well

Best Game Writing

Blue Prince

Tonda Ros (Raw Fury

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S.

Dispatch

Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios)

Hades II

Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games)

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Ari Gibson & William Pellen (Team Cherry)

Spire, Surge, and Sea

Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games)

Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

KPop Demon Hunters

Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)

Murderbot: Season One

Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)

Pluribus: Season One

Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)

Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”

Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)

Sinners

Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)

Superman

James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)

Best Comic

Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal

Amy Chu (Berger)

Fishflies

Jeff Lemire (Image)

Helen of Wyndhorn

Tom King (Dark Horse)

Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone

Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)

Second Shift

Kit Anderson (Avery Hill)

Strange Bedfellows

Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)

The Flip Side

Jason Walz (Rocky Pond)

The Stoneshore Register

G. Willow Wilson (Berger)

Best Poem

“Care for Lightning”

by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)

“The Mourning Robot”

by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)

“The World To Come”

by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)

“They Said Robots Are”

by Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25)

“Though You Always Are”

Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless)

“To Be the Change”

by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)