2009 Nebula Award Finalists for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Nebula Awards are voted on by active members of SFWA. The winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on May 15.

The finalists are:

Novel
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
The City & The City by China Mieville
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

Short Story
"Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" by Saladin Ahmed
"I Remember the Future" by Michael A. Burstein
"Non-Zero Probabilities" by N. K. Jemisin
"Spar" by Kij Johnson
"Going Deep" by James Patrick Kelly
"Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh

Novelette
The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi
Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage by Michael Bishop
I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said by Richard Bowes
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster
Divining Light by Ted Kosmatka
A Memory of Wind byRachel Swirsky

Novella
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker
Arkfall by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Act One by Nancy Kress
Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford
The God Engines by John Scalzi