2025 Nebula Awards Ballot

March 15, 2026

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards.

Novel

• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
• Wearing the Lion,John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

Novella

• Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)
• The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
• But Not Too Bold, Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)
• “Descent”, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)

For the full list, see Locus magazine