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2023 Nebula Awards

Each year the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association presents the Nebula Awards to the best works of science fiction and fantasy from the previous year. Here are this year’s top winners. You can see the full list of nominees (and also read the nominated short stories online for free) at the SFWA website.

The saint of bright doors

The saint of bright doors

by Vajra Chandrasekera

2023 Nebula Award - Best Novel
 
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen. Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potential, and once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doors, looming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolis, Fetter will discover what kind of man he is,and his discovery will rewrite the world.
Linghun

Linghun

by Ai Jiang
 
2023 Nebula Award - Best Novella
 
Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian writer and immigrant, Ai Jiang. Linghun is set in the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go.
Barbie

Barbie

 
2023 Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
 
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
To shape a dragon's breath

To shape a dragon's breath

by Moniquill Blackgoose
 
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
 
Revered as a Nampeshiweisit, a person in a unique relationship with a dragon, by her people, 15-year-old Indigenous girl Anequs, at odds with the “approved” way of doing things, is forced by Anglish conquerors to attend a proper dragon school– and if she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.