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Tracy Mumford

Women sweep the Nebula sci-fi and fantasy awards

Nebula Award winners
The Nebula Award winners were announced at a ceremony on Friday, May 13, 2016.
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The winners of the Nebulas — one of the biggest awards in science fiction and fantasy — were announced this weekend, and for the second time in three years, women swept the literary categories.

The awards are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The first Nebulas were awarded in 1966.

Five women winning Nebula awards is a reminder of the problems plaguing the other big name in sci-fi and fantasy: The Hugo Awards. The Hugos have been plagued by controversy in recent years. Last year, an online faction upset by the rising number of women and authors of color in the sci-fi genre campaigned for its own slate of Hugo nominees and succeeded in dominating the categories. This resulted in many authors boycotting the awards, and in five categories, "No Award" received more votes than named nominees. A similar situation may arise for the Hugos this year as well.

Nebula Award winners

Novel

• Winner: "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik
• "Raising Caine" by Charles E. Gannon
• "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
• "Ancillary Mercy" by Ann Leckie
• "The Grace of Kings" by Ken Liu
• "Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard" by Lawrence M. Schoen
• "Updraft" by Fran Wilde

Novella

• Winner: "Binti" by Nnedi Okorafor
• "Wings of Sorrow and Bone" by Beth Cato
• "The Bone Swans of Amandale" by C.S.E. Cooney
• "The New Mother" by Eugene Fischer
• "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik
• "Waters of Versailles" by Kelly Robson

Novelette

• Winner: "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker
• "Rattlesnakes and Men" by Michael Bishop
• "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" by Brooke Bolander
• "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" by Rose Lemberg
• "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" by Henry Lien
• "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir

Short Story

• Winner: "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong
• "Madeleine" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
• "Damage" by David D. Levine
• "When Your Child Strays From God" by Sam J. Miller
• "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Winner: "Updraft" by Fran Wilde
• "Seriously Wicked" by Tina Connolly
• "Court of Fives" by Kate Elliott
• "Cuckoo Song" by Frances Hardinge
• "Archivist Wasp" by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• "Zeroboxer" by Fonda Lee
• "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
• "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
• "Nimona" by Noelle Stevenson

The Nebula winners for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation were George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris for the "Mad Max: Fury Road."