We are thrilled to see these in the finalists for the 2025 Dragon Awards!
Best Science Fiction Novel
The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet
Murderbot, Apple TV+ (based on The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells)
Many congratulations to DMLA author, Martha Wells, as SYSTEM COLLAPSE has been named a winner in the 2025 Seiun Award! The Seiun Award is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements. We are honored to see Wells’s book win “Best Translated Long Story” category!
BEST TRANSLATED LONG STORY
“System Collapse”
by Martha Wells
translated by Naoya Nakahara
(TOKYO SOGENSHA Co.,Ltd.)
DMLA is proud to congratulate the following clients on the recognition of their talent as nominees of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction :
* Vajra Chandrasekera for RAKESFALL
* Nalo Hopkinson for BLACKHEART MAN
* Eden Robins for REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE
This award is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.
This year, eight shortlisted books were chosen by the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation following a public nomination process.
Amazing to see so many of our DMLA authors listed as Finalists for the 2025 Fiyah Magazine’s Ignyte Awards! Heartfelt congratulations to everyone!
Outstanding Novel: Adult
METAL FROM HEAVEN – august clarke
BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson
Outstanding Novel: Young Adult
SHEINE LENDE – Darcie Little Badger
Outstanding Novel: Middle Grade
BENNY RAMÍREZ AND THE NEARLY DEPARTED – Jose Pable Iriarte
Outstanding Novella
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST – Premee Mohamed
Outstanding Novelette
A STRANGRER KNOCKS – Tananarive Due
Best Creative Nonfiction
“All Insurrections are Not Created Equal” – Micaiah Johnson
Huge congratulations to DMLA author, Vajra Chandrasekera, as RAKESFALL is named a 2024 Otherwise Award winner!
The finalists for the 2025 Locus Award finalists were announced and several DMLA clients made the list!
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
FANTASY NOVEL
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
NOVELLA
NOVELETTE
SHORT STORY
COLLECTION
The 2025 Aurora Awards Ballot have been announced and we’re excited to share that the following DMLA authors have made the list! Congratulations everyone!
Best Novel
Best Novelette/Novella
Best Fan Related Work
The finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists were announced a couple of days ago, and we’re over the moon to see our DMLA authors honored! Congratulations all around!
BEST NOVEL
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey, Hodderscape UK)
BEST NOVELLA
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
BEST NOVELETTE
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons, Fund Drive 2024)
LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
The Feast Makers by H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Amanda Downum and E. Catherine Tobler for their work on The Deadlands
Premee Mohamed for her work on Escape Pod
The nominations for the 2024 Nebula Awards were announced, and we’re thrilled to see the following DMLA authors on the list! Congratulations all around!
Best Novel
Best Novella
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Best Game Writing
Sharon Lee, novelist, is the 2025 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The award is bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. This award is in recognition of Ms. Lee’s body of work of over 38 novels and short stories. A majority of her space themed work is in the Liaden Universe, written with her late husband Steve Miller, and features merchant families trading across the galaxy. The next Liaden Universe novel, Diviner’s Bow, is forthcoming from Baen Books in April 2025.
The award will be formally presented during opening ceremonies on Friday, May 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM for Balticon 59, the 59th Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention. Balticon will take place at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore Maryland. Ms. Lee will participate in the Balticon program across Memorial Day Weekend.
Balticon and the Robert A. Heinlein Award are both managed and sponsored by The Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc. BSFS thanks The Heinlein Society and the family of Dr. Yoji Kondo for providing funding for this award.
The Robert A. Heinlein Award is a sterling silver medallion bearing the image of Robert A. Heinlein, as depicted by artist Arlin Robins. The medallion is matched with a red-white-blue lanyard. In addition, the winner receives two lapel pins for use when a large medallion is impractical, and a plaque describing the award for home or office wall display.
The Robert A. Heinlein Award selection committee consists of science fiction writers and was founded by Dr. Yoji Kondo, a long-time friend of Robert and Virginia Heinlein. Members of the original committee were approved by Virginia Heinlein.
Virginia Heinlein authorized multiple awards in memory of her husband. Other awards include the Heinlein Prize, which is fully funded by Virginia Heinlein’s estate, and a National Space Society award for volunteer projects.