La Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, pronunciato sifua) ha annunciato i finalisti dell'edizione 2019 del Premio Nebula. i vincitori saranno annunciati alla 55a Nebula Award Conference a Los Angeles, dal 28 al 31 maggio prossimi.

Tra gli autori molti nomi poco noti ai lettori italiani: tra le rimarchevoli eccezioni Ted Chiang, che torna dopo un paio d'anni di silenzio, Sarah Pinsker, autrice molto interessante pubblicata in Italia da Robot, come sempre su Robot sono comparsi P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El-Mohtar, Cat Rambo, Naomi Kritzer. Nella categoria dedicata alle sceneggiature, che includono sia film che serie tv, compare anche Jon Favreau per il pilot di The Mandalorian.

Romanzo

  • Charles E. Gannon, Marque of Caine
  • Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  • Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow
  • Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth
  • Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

Romanzo breve

  • Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
  • P. Djèlí Clark, The Haunting of Tram Car 015
  • Amal El-Mohtar e Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Vylar Kaftan, Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
  • William Hutson e Jonathan Snipes, The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs
  • A.C. Wise, Catfish Lullaby

Racconto lungo

  • G.V. Anderson, A Strange Uncertain Light
  • Siobhan Carroll, For He Can Creep
  • Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light
  • Sarah Pinsker, The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye
  • Cat Rambo, Carpe Glitter
  • Caroline M. Yoachim, The Archronology of Love

Racconto

  • A.T. Greenblatt, Give the Family My Love
  • Karen Osborne, The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power
  • Shiv Ramdas, And Now His Lordship Is Laughing
  • Nibedita Sen, Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island
  • Fran Wilde, A Catalog of Storms
  • A.C. Wise, How the Trick Is Done

Premio Andre Norton per il romanzo young adult

  • Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
  • Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet
  • Yoon Ha Lee, Dragon Pearl
  • Henry Lien, Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
  • Greg van Eekhout, Cog
  • Fran Wilde, Riverland

Giochi

  • Kelsey Beachum, Outer Wilds
  • Chris L’Etoile, The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde
  • Kate Heartfield, The Magician’s Workshop
  • Robert Kurvitz, Disco Elysium
  • Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Fate Accessibility Toolkit

Premio Ray Bradbury per le sceneggiature

  • Christopher Markus e Stephen McFeely, Avengers: Endgame
  • Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck e Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Captain Marvel
  • Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: Hard Times
  • Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian: The Child
  • Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland, Russian Doll: The Way Out
  • Jeff Jensen e Damon Lindelof, Watchmen: A God Walks into Abar