The nominees for the 2014 Nebula Awards (presented 2015) have been announced on Friday along with the nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Novel The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu Coming Home by Jack McDevitt Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Novella We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress The Regular by Ken Liu The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert Calendrical Regression by Lawrence Schoen Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) by Rachel Swirsky
Novelette Sleep Walking Now and Then by Richard Bowes The Magician and Laplace’s Demon by Tom Crosshill A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson
Short Story The Breath of War by Aliette de Bodard When It Ends, He Catches Her by Eugie Foster The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye by Matthew Kressel The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family by Usman T. Malik A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide by Sarah Pinsker Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon “The Fisher Queen,” Alyssa Wong
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely Edge of Tomorrow, Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth Guardians of the Galaxy, Written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman Interstellar, Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan The Lego Movie, Screenplay by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan Salvage by Alexandra Duncan Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry Greenglass House by Kate Milford The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
I see Birdman has been nominated. I've seen arguments on the web with people fighting whether it is or isn't sf. I think it depends on whether you believe [Spoiler (click to open)]he flies on the end or not.