2021 Nebula Award Winners

The 2021 Nebula Award Winners have just been announced at the SFWA Nebula conference.

I’ve adapted the original list with my reviews and links to online available versions if available. Please note, that I’ve left out some categories which are less interesting to me (YA, Game Writing, Drama Presentation).

Winners and Finalists

All the nominees from short to long (links in the title lead to online available versions):

Best Short Story

Winner: Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

• ★★★★☆ • Mr. Death • 2021 • Humorous ghost short story by Alix E. Harrow • review
•  Proof by Induction by José Pablo Iriarte
• Let All the Children Boogie by Sam J. Miller
• Laughter Among the Trees by Suzan Palumbo
• For Lack of a Bed by John Wiswell

Best Novelette

Winner:  O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (in Galaxy’s Edge 11/21)

• Just Enough Rain by PH Lee
• (emet) by Lauren Ring
• That Story Isn’t the Story by John Wiswell
• Colors of the Immortal Palette by Caroline M. Yoachim

Best Novella

Winner: And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers
• Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (
• Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, Aimee Ogden
• Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn
• The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler
• “The Giants of the Violet Sea”, Eugenia Triantafyllou

Novel

Winner: ★★★+☆☆ • A Master of Djinn • 2021 • Steampunk novella by Phenderson Djèlí Clark • review

• The Unbroken, C.L. Clark
• Machinehood, S.B. Divya
• A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
• Plague Birds, Jason Sanford