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Ana and Renay discuss the short lists for the Nebula and Kitschies!
Discussion References
The Kitschies’ 2015 Shortlists Revealed
The Red Tentacle (Novel)
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
- Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
- The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken (Melville House)
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
The Golden Tentacle (Debut)
- The Shore by Sara Taylor (William Heinemann)
- Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett (Chatto and Windus)
- The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (Harvill Secker)
- The Night Clock by Paul Meloy (Solaris)
- Making Wolf by Tade Thompson (Rosarium)
2015 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
Novel
- Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (Saga)
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
- Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor)
- Updraft by Fran Wilde (Tor)
Novella
- Wings of Sorrow and Bone by Beth Cato (Harper Voyager Impulse)
- “The Bone Swans of Amandale” by C.S.E. Cooney (Bone Swans)
- “The New Mother” by Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s 4-5/15)
- “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” by Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 4/22/15)
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
- “Waters of Versailles” by Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)
Novelette
- “Rattlesnakes and Men” by Michael Bishop (Asimov’s 2/15)
- “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
- “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” by Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/15)
- “The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society” by Henry Lien (Asimov’s 6/15)
- “The Deepwater Bride” by Tamsyn Muir (F&SF 7-8/15)
- “Our Lady of the Open Road” by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 6/15)
Short Story
- “Madeleine” by Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
- “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)
- “Damage” by David D. Levine (Tor.com 1/21/15)
- “When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 7/15)
- “Today I Am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld 8/15)
- “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Ex Machina
- Inside Out
- Jessica Jones: AKA Smile
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Seriously Wicked by Tina Connolly (Tor Teen)
- Court of Fives by Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK 5/14; Amulet)
- Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Big Mouth House)
- Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee (Flux)
- Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older (Levine)
- Bone Gap by Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
- Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
- Updraft by Fran Wilde (Tor)
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