The 2024 Nebula Awards for Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing
This weekend was the awards ceremony for the Nebulas, one of the most prestigious honors in sci-fi and fantasy writing. Make this list of the winner and nominees in the Best Novel category your sci-fi summer reading challenge!
6 books

WINNER (Best Novel)


The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera"There is so much going on here, and yet it all fits together perfectly – book of the year material, no question, and one I’m already returning to." —Locus Magazine

Casella
Paperback, 2024
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Finalist
Dr. Liz Bourke (🏳️🌈 all year)

Translation State
Ann Leckie"One of the most delightful aspects of Ann Leckie’s writing is the way that seemingly minor details in her fiction have extraordinary significance on much larger scales. In Leckie’s literary worldview, the smallest things often make the biggest difference." – Los Angeles Review of Books

Paperback, 2024
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Finalist
Tor.com & Lightspeed Mag (Bluesky: @lightspeedmagazine.com)

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Wole Talabi"Defiantly ambitious... an action-packed thrill ride... Talabi's snarky narration keeps the tone light, while leaving room for a sweet love story." –The Washington Post


Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5 & Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

The Terraformers
Annalee Newitz"The Terraformers, refreshingly, is the opposite of the dystopian... [the] mordant sense of humor steers the story clear of starry-eyed optimism, but it’s easy to imagine future generations studying this novel as a primer for how to embrace solutions to the challenges we all face." – Scientific American


Paperback, 2023
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Finalist
N. K. Jemisin & John Scalzi

Witch King
Martha Wells"A deeply immersive throwback to a beloved (and for me, foundational) species of 1990s fantasy doorstop, is full of cataclysmic intrigues between mostly immortal families, complete with map and dramatis personae... Wells is working at the height of her powers here..." – The New York Times


Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist

The Water Outlaws
S. L. Huang"At once a boisterous martial-arts epic, an intricate heist story, and an all too timely tale of resistance against tyrannical institutions, The Water Outlaws is also unusually engrossing... In addition to being a Hugo Award winner, polymath Huang is a Hollywood stunt performer and armorer, able to write scenes of intricate combat with effortless clarity and breathless pacing. This novel reads like a movie in the best way." – Vulture
Paperback, 2024
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