My #Nebulas picks: 🙏
• Best Novel: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Best Novella: The River Has Roots
• Best Novelette: “Never Eaten Vegetables”
• Best Short Story: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”
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My #Nebulas progress!
Best Novel ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Best Novella 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
Best Novelette ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
Best Short Story ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
Middle Grade And Young Adult Fiction ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Best Game Writing ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Outstanding Dramatic Presentation 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛
Best Comic ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Best Poem ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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I loveddd this book! Through the setting of a fantasy world, Goblin Girl explores racism, acceptance of oneself, and the obligatory power of friendship. I find that all these topics are commented on quite impactfully in Goblin Girl, and I found it was quite moving reading the dialogue. I personally really enjoyed the romantic side-plot, but I am also just a romantic so. While it does take a backseat to the greater story (rightfully so), I still thought the small moments in between were just sososo cute. The story itself is your classic save-the-world underdog story where the heroes go on a grand adventure to save the kingdom from collapse. While the story is trope-y, I found that the characters are all very nuanced, which is refreshing for a book for targeted at elementary schoolers. Their thoughts, motivations, and dialogue all feel very human (or goblin? the english language isn't very inclusive to other species), and you can tell that they aren't just caricatures of worn out tropes. They feel real. And the things that this book has to say is powerful; I found my stance on race and war being clarified and synthesized by the words in this book. Overall, I have nothing to complain about. Great message, excellent characters, emotional moments, humourous humour, romance, adventure, action, what else could you ask for? If you like fantasy even a little bit, I don't think you could go wrong with reading this (especially since it's free!)
Trigger warnings are in the description of this itch.io page for those who haven't located them, although all matters are handled tastefully and authentically. All subject matter is, in my opinion, perfectly within reason for the target audience.
to extend my Earnest Posting a smidge, if any #SFWA members need convincing to read and vote for my queer little fantasy book, Goblin Girl has exactly one (1) review but it's a really good one
grab the epub here:
books2read.com/u/31pp16
or here:
kamielke.itch.io/goblin-girl
#Nebulas #BookSky
GOBLIN GIRL BEING ANNOUNCED AS A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ON SUNDAY AHHHH!!!
GOBLIN GIRL BEING ANNOUNCED AS A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ON SUNDAY AHHHH!!! in such esteemed company as The Tower, Gemini Rising, Into the Wild Magic, Wishing Well, Wishing Well, and THE FRCIKIN’ HUNGER GAMES
all right, it’s probably time to Earnest Post
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Newly minted Nebula Finalist for Best Novel R.F. Kuang is here at a #WORDChch event in May! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/rf...
#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards ^DR
See you in Chicago to celebrate all our latest stars! 61st Nebula Awards Conference, June 3-7 sfwa.org/nebula-conference
If you haven't secured your tickets yet, online or in-person, for our 61st Nebula Awards Conference this June 3-7, we look forward to seeing you out! sfwa.org/nebula-conference
And SFWAns! Keep a sharp look-out for the start of our Final Nebula Ballot at 7pm PDT.
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Poem are... “Though You Always Are” Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless) “They Said Robots Are” Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25) “The World To Come” Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25) “The Mourning Robot” Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25) “Care for Lightning” Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25) “To Be the Change” Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the FIRST EVER Nebula Award for Best Poem!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novel are... When We Were Real Daryl Gregory (Saga) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) Katabasis R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) The Incandescent Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) Sour Cherry Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire) Wearing the Lion John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel!
#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards
And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novella are... Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK) The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) The Death of Mountains Jordan Kurella (Lethe) Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) But Not Too Bold Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom) “Descent” Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novella!
#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards
And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novelette are... “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh” Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25) “Uncertain Sons” Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons) “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25) The Name Ziya Wen-Yi Lee (Tor) “Never Eaten Vegetables” H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25) “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends” Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novelette!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Short Story are... “Through the Machine” P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25) “Six People to Revise You” J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25) “In My Country” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25) “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25) “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25) “Laser Eyes Ain't Everything” Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Short Story!
#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards
And the Nebula Finalists for the Andre Norton are... The Tower David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books) Gemini Rising Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press) Wishing Well, Wishing Well Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts) Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) Into the Wild Magic Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick) Goblin Girl K.A. Mielke (self-published)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Game Writing are... Spire, Surge, and Sea Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Guillaume Broche & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S. Hollow Knight: Silksong Ari Gibson & William Pelen (Team Cherry)* Dispatch Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios) Hades II Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games) Blue Prince Tonda Ros (Raw Fury, Developer: Dogubomb) *Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Nebula Award for Best Game Writing!
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And the Nebula Finalists for the Ray Bradbury are... KPop Demon Hunters Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)* Sinners Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)* Severance "Chikhai Bardo", by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)* Pluribus: Season One Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)* Superman James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)* Murderbot: Season One Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)* *Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Comic are... Second Shift Kit Anderson (Avery Hill) Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal Amy Chu (Berger) Helen of Wyndhorn Tom King (Dark Horse) Fishflies Jeff Lemire (Image) Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree) Strange Bedfellows Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley) The Flip Side Jason Walz (Rocky Pond) The Stoneshore Register G. Willow Wilson (Berger)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the FIRST EVER Nebula Award for Best Comic!
#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards 🥳
HEY NEBULA GOERS! my spreadsheet of foods and birding sites is up now, have a look: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#nebulas #sff
If you happen to be filling out your Nebula ballot tonight or tomorrow, I just wanted to squee one more time about a story I’m super proud of. “Six People to Revise You” is one of my favorite things I’ve written. #nebulas #sfwa
Nebula Ballots are due Sunday, March 1st. This is the the first year for the poetry and comics categories. If you have not submitted already, here is the link: www.sfwa.org/2025-nebula-....
#SFWA #Nebulas #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #NominationSeason
If you're reading for the #Hugos or #Nebulas, may I suggest some flash fiction? It's near-future SF that isn't dystopian. Enjoy! www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
Immortal Gifts by Villyard, Katherine www.sfwa.org/reading-list...
Are you a Nebula voter? You can get a free copy from the SFWA forums.
#booksky #nebulas 💙📚🪐
Screenshot of the Nebulas Recommended Reading List page, showing: Montroy, Michael Yuya "Blight" Moon, Richard H "To Conquer Death" (that one is MINE) Moore, Fiona "Comparing Colonialisms in Dn Simmons' The Terror and its AMC Adaptation" Morris, Stephanie Malia "The Island with the Animals"
I know we've all got a lot of issues with everyone and everything, but my book is on the Nebulas Recommended Reading List and that's pretty boss, actually.
#nebulas #sfwa #booksky
Unmoored is a wordless vocalise built from whole-tone harmonies that erase tonal center and gravity, evoking the feeling of drifting without orientation inside a nebula.
For a full description, follow this link back to my YouTube channel.
#nebulas #outerspace #drifting#unmoored #etherreality
2025 Award eligibility post. Novella: "On Fields of Sorrow" - epic fantasy 20,000 words. Short story: "The Bank of Bones" - black humor/horror 3,000 words.
Late to the game, but here's my #AwardEligibility post for the #Hugos & #Nebulas!
For your consideration:
"On Fields of Sorrow" 20k words epic fantasy novella.
"The Bank of Bones" 3000 words horror/black humor short story.
Details and links in thread.
#HugoAwards #NebulaAwards #LocusAwards
M78 and NGC 2071 Nebulas - telescope processed image. M78 (Casper the Ghost): This is the brightest reflection nebula in the sky, famously glowing with a ghostly blue light scattered by dust from young stars.
M78 and NGC 2071 Nebulas - unprocessed image. NGC 2071: Located just north of M78, this nebula acts as a high-mass stellar nursery, hiding powerful protostars that blast out massive jets of gas.
Last image of the night for the Odyssey Pro. Here is the #M78 (center) and #NGC2071 (left) #Nebulas. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur
Creation has two truths: One that radiates, and one that exists. More simply: The star sings; the nebula is silent. Both are true.
For a full discussion, please follow this link to the YouTube video.
#nebulas #stars #astrophotography #poetry #キシテハイ
I'm revamping the first mission in the Kuiper Belt.
A big part of it is figuring out the clouds, as I've learned more about the nebulas from Ambient GraphX I think they'll work just fine.
#gamedev #indiedev #Exosolar #RTS #Space #4x #Strategy #Nebulas
To the space with my spaceship, todays destination is the birthplace of stars, Orion Nebula in the Orions sword!
#orion #nebula #stars #space #Universe #asteonomy #kofi #Coffee #Vine #ontheboard #spaceship #nebulas #interesting #art #artwork #forsaleonkofi #travelling #travel #tospace
M78 The Casper Nebula - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. M78 (Casper Nebula) is a reflection nebula in Orion, about 1,350 light-years away. It appears bright blue as its dust clouds reflect light from nearby young stars.
M78 The Casper Nebula - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. The Casper Nebula (M78) is the brightest part of a reflection nebula complex within the Orion B Molecular Cloud. It is surrounded by other smaller reflection nebulae like NGC 2064, NGC 2067, and NGC 2071. All these nebulae are clouds of interstellar dust that reflect the blue light from nearby hot, young B-type stars.
Last observation of the morning. Went to go see #M78 #TheCasperNebula - in the center of the image. In the image you can see the other #nebulas from top to bottom - #NGC2072 , #NGC2067 (right above M78), #LDN1627 (dark nebula above and right of M78), #NGC2064 […]
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#Stars ignite in #Nebulas, spending most time as main sequence stars (like the Sun). Their end depends on mass: low-mass stars become red giants then #White #Dwarfs; high-mass stars end in a #Supernova, forming a neutron star or #BlackHole.
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M45 The Pleiades Star Cluster - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. Also known as the "Seven Sisters," M45 is the nearest and most famous open star cluster (in Taurus), dominated by young, hot blue stars passing through a dusty nebula.
M45 The Pleiades Star Cluster - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. The nine most famous named stars in M45, also known as the Pleiades or the "Seven Sisters," are: The Seven Sisters (Daughters of Atlas and Pleione) • Alcyone (The brightest star) • Electra • Maia • Merope • Taygeta • Celaeno • Asterope (sometimes referred to as Sterope, often seen as a double star) The Parents • Atlas (The Titan who held up the heavens) • Pleione (Their mother, an Oceanid nymph).
Been busy at work so could not post this operation till tonight. Here is a new observation of #M45 #ThePleiadesStarCluster. The s50 was out there all night and this observation is 586 images at 20 second exposures in total. Captures all the Pleiades plus the […]
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