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The New Nebula Award Finalists

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association has released its list of finalists for the new Nebula Awards. These are some of the best stories, movies, games and more from 2025, and a great way to boost your to be read list. If you’re an SFWA member you have until April 15th to vote on your favorites.

The list is available in lots of places but I’ll link to Andrew Liptak’s site because he has already done the work of finding links for the stories that are available online. Thanks, Andrew!

I’ll copy the short stories here, but click through to Andrew’s site for links to the novelettes and more. And do I love that many of the top short story markets are open access? I do!

Here are the finalists for the 2026 Nebula Awards

Best Short Story 

• “Through the Machine” by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed Magazine, 5/25)
• “Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny Magazine, 1-2/25)
• “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Magazine 4/25)
• “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

I’ve only read a couple of these stories so this promises to be a treat. Happy reading everyone!

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It never fails. I place a bunch of #library holds on #ebooks I want to read and sort my #ToBeRead list based on the wait times. Then something I'm really looking forward to from lower on the list suddenly becomes available weeks ahead of schedule.

Oh, no! Whatever shall I do?

Anyway, I just started #Oathbound!

#bookstodon #books #libraries #tbr #tracydeonn

#DanezSmith! #AudreLorde! #KwameDawes! 27 new #books out today.

#Summer is nearing its (official) end, but with good places to be and great things to #read while at them, the #summer can last a bit longer. Read on, and let those #toberead #piles gloriously #grow.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://lithub.com/danez-smith-audre-lorde-kwame-dawes-27-new-books-out-today/

#DanezSmith! #AudreLorde! #KwameDawes! 27 new #books out today.

#Summer is nearing its (official) end, but with good places to be and great things to #read while at them, the #summer can last a bit longer. Read on, and let those #toberead #piles gloriously #grow.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://lithub.com/danez-smith-audre-lorde-kwame-dawes-27-new-books-out-today/

#DanezSmith! #AudreLorde! #KwameDawes! 27 new #books out today.

#Summer is nearing its (official) end, but with good places to be and great things to #read while at them, the #summer can last a bit longer. Read on, and let those #toberead #piles gloriously #grow.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://lithub.com/danez-smith-audre-lorde-kwame-dawes-27-new-books-out-today/

#DanezSmith! #AudreLorde! #KwameDawes! 27 new #books out today.

#Summer is nearing its (official) end, but with good places to be and great things to #read while at them, the #summer can last a bit longer. Read on, and let those #toberead #piles gloriously #grow.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://lithub.com/danez-smith-audre-lorde-kwame-dawes-27-new-books-out-today/

#DanezSmith! #AudreLorde! #KwameDawes! 27 new #books out today.

#Summer is nearing its (official) end, but with good places to be and great things to #read while at them, the #summer can last a bit longer. Read on, and let those #toberead #piles gloriously #grow.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://lithub.com/danez-smith-audre-lorde-kwame-dawes-27-new-books-out-today/

Since I moved the #TBR...pile? multi-towered stack? library? this afternoon, it is convenient for me to share it with y'all. 😁📚🤘❤️🖖

This does not include ebooks, obvs. 😫😆

Bonus b&w poster of 11yo when she was 4. 😊❤️ #synchronicity!

#ToBeRead
#ToRead
#ToReadList
#books
#bookstodon
#ILoveBooks
#ILoveReading
#reading
#amreading
#library
#BanBookBans
#BanTheFacistsNotTheBooks

Ohhh, looking forward to this, new addition to the eternally tottering TBR tower - the fabbity-fab Denise Mina is doing a Philip Marlowe novel this summer.

#books #PhilipMarlowe #CrimeFiction #TBR #ToBeRead #TBRPile #livre #DeniseMina #TheSecondMurderer #bookstodon