FINALISTS: 2014 Nebula Awards (with Free Fiction Links!)

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the 2014 Nebula Awards nominees (presented in 2015), nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
• Coming Home, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

• We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• “The Regular” by Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
• Calendrical Regression, Lawrence Schoen (NobleFusion)
• “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)

• “Sleep Walking Now and Then” by Richard Bowes (Tor.com 7/9/14)
• “The Magician and Laplace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 12/14)
• “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i” by Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF 7-8/14)
• “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
• “We Are the Cloud” by Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
• “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)

• “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/14)
• “When It Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 9/26/14)
• “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel (Clarkesworld 5/14)
• “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
• “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker (F&SF 3-4/14)
• “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/7/14)
• “The Fisher Queen” by Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5/14)

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
• Edge of Tomorrow, Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Guardians of the Galaxy, Written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
• Interstellar, Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
• The Lego Movie, Screenplay by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)

• Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
• Salvage, Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
• Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
• Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
• Dirty Wings, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
• The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Leslye Walton (Candlewick)

Congratulations to all the nominees!

About the Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. Voting will open to SFWA Active members on March 1 and close on March 30. More information is available from http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/how-to-vote/.

About the Nebula Awards Weekend
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 50th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend will be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, June 4 through 7, 2015. The weekend will include tours and workshops, including workshops on self-publishing and IP law and other legal issues of interest to writers.

The cost to attend is $70, and the Weekend is open to both SFWA members and non-members. For more information, please see http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/, or contact Steven H Silver at events@sfwa.org.

About SFWA
Founded in 1965 by the late Damon Knight, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America brings together the most successful and daring writers of speculative fiction throughout the world.

Since its inception, SFWA® has grown in numbers and influence until it is now widely recognized as one of the most effective non-profit writers’ organizations in existence, boasting a membership of approximately 2,000 science fiction and fantasy writers as well as artists, editors and allied professionals. Each year the organization presents the prestigious Nebula Awards® for the year’s best literary and dramatic works of speculative fiction.