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Critical Mass April 15th: Nebula Awards Ballot

Critical Mass News, Snippets

Meeting on April 15th, 6:30 at the Minor Works Building
Entry via path between 50 and 52 Sturt street.

You can also join us via zoom:
6:30pm Adelaide, 7pm Melbourne

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82223110135?pwd=xNM1ZB0skJ1jbmCoPuWca1w1rqO92Q.1

We invite people to read two of the nominated works in novella, novelette or short story to offer their opinions. [You could also comment on a novel if you’ve read one on the list.]

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

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)

Novelette

  • “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)
  • “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
  • “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
  • The Name Ziya, Wen-Yi Lee (Tor)
  • “Never Eaten Vegetables”, H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)
  • “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)

Short Story

  • “Through the Machine”, P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)
  • “Six People to Revise You”, J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)
  • “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
  • “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
  • “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
  • “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

The other categories can be seen here: https://locusmag.com/2026/03/2025-nebula-awards-ballot/