The announcements were streamed live with host SFWA President and SAG-AFTRA performer Mary Robinette Kowal, and featured live excerpt readings of many of the nominated works by several talented voice actors. This year’s winners will be announced at the 56th Annual Nebula Awards ceremony during the 2021 Nebula Conference Online, which is June 4–6, 2021. It is open to Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America members and nonmembers and will be taking place entirely online for the second year in a row. (Because, you know, pandemic.) Past winners of the awards include N.K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jeff VanderMeer. And now here are all the amazing finalists for the 2020 Nebula Awards — congratulations to all the nominees! A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher Star Daughter by by Shveta Thakrar Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn Reese “Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math” by Aimee Picchi “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad “The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sandford “My Country is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell Hades by Greg Kasavin The Luminous Underground by Phoebe Barton Kentucky Route Zero by Jake Elliott Scents & Semiosis by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Yoon Ha Lee, and Caleb Wilson Spiritfarer by Nicolas Guérin, Maxime Monast, and Alex Tommi-Morin Finna by Nino Cipri Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark Ife-Iyoku, Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi “The Pill” by Meg Elison “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A. T. Greenblatt “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker “Where You Linger” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam “Shadow Prisons” by Caroline Yoachim The Good Place: “Whenever You’re Ready” by Michael Schur, NBC Lovecraft Country, Season 1 by Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Kevin Lau, Wes Taylor, Ihuoma Ofordire, Jonathan I. Kidd, Sonya Winton-Odamtten, HBO Max The Mandalorian: “The Tragedy” by Jon Favreau, Disney The Old Guard by Greg Rucka, Netflix The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
