John Wilker 👨🏽💻LOL. The Nebula voting packet is 95% PDFs.
Fuck that noise. I’m not struggling through reading a PDF on a device that I normally read on (it would have to be my iPad).
Nor am I inclined to try some janky conversion to EPUB.
J.R. JohnsonThe 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
- “Through the Machine” by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed Magazine, 5/25)
- “Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny Magazine, 1-2/25)
- “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Magazine 4/25)
- “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
- “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
- “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)
I’ve only read a couple of these stories so this promises to be a treat. Happy reading everyone!
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SFWAWe can't wait to keep this party going on the road to Chicago! If you haven't secured your tickets yet, online or in-person, for our 61st Nebula Awards Conference this June 3-7, we look forward to seeing you out! sfwa.org/nebula-conference
And SFWAns! Keep a sharp look-out for the start of our Final Nebula Ballot at 7pm PDT.
All good things ahead!
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