Octothorpe 156 is here! We discuss Locus, we discuss the Nebulas, we discuss Eastercon, and then we talk about Liz’s totally SFnal and very genre pick. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/156-surprisingly-well-adjusted-young-gentlemen/
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The New Nebula Award Finalists
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association has released its list of finalists for the new Nebula Awards. These are some of the best stories, movies, games and more from 2025, and a great way to boost your to be read list. If you’re an SFWA member you have until April 15th to vote on your favorites.
The list is available in lots of places but I’ll link to Andrew Liptak’s site because he has already done the work of finding links for the stories that are available online. Thanks, Andrew!
I’ll copy the short stories here, but click through to Andrew’s site for links to the novelettes and more. And do I love that many of the top short story markets are open access? I do!
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Nebula Awards
Best Short Story
I’ve only read a couple of these stories so this promises to be a treat. Happy reading everyone!
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Congratulations to @MarieCroke , "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" from BCS #423 has been voted a finalist for the Nebula Awards!
"Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" is a great fantasy story of family, memorial, loss, and compassion. You can read it here: https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-echoes-drifting-through-the-marsh/
Outside the preburial cottage, the pier creaked. I saw no shadow under the doorway, yet I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. I imagined, yet again, an anger filtering over his calm countenance. Wondered whether my admission of taking Danai into the Whispermarsh had been a final wedge between us. "Did your father truly leave?" I asked softly. A part of me hoped if he had, it was because he wanted to be kept in the dark about any admissions I made. A larger part of me believed he was done with me, exhausted by the choices I'd made.
Are you nominating for Hugos or Nebula Awards?
Here's all eligible BCS stories, their category (Short Story, etc), links to nominating info, and link to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, to read our authors' work published in other fine venues.
(Pls *DON'T* nominate BCS for Semiprozine Hugo; after ten times as a Finalist, we recused. You can nominate Scott for Editor Short Form if you find him worthy.)
Thank you for considering our stories!
https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2026-awards-eligible-stories-from-bcs/
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For readers interested in nominating for awards, such as the Hugos or Nebulas, in 2026, here are the eligible stories from BCS in 2025 and which awards category they fit in. Thank you for your interest in our stories! What BCS Stories are Eligible: Everything published in 2025, which is BCS #423 through BCS #447. Here are some of our best-reviewed pieces of 2025 and which award category they fit in (short fiction categories for Hugos and Nebulas are the same). For a list of all eligible BCS stories and their categories, see the bottom of this post. Please DON’T... Read more »
News Summary: Nebula Awards’ AI Policy Sparks Debate on Authorship and Process
The use of AI in competitions and beloved public literary events has become its own subgenre in a crowded news field. The two highest-profile instances have been the announcement by the Grammys that they would allow the use of AI in eligible tracks…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/nebula-awards-ai-policy/
#AIinliterature #authorship #largelanguagemodels #literarycompetitions #NebulaAwards
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