The Nebula Awards come to Kansas City

The stars will be out in the City of Fountains

Brian Scott Pauls

Mar 20, 2025

“The City of Fountains beneath a purple sky” by Brian S. Pauls, 2025; Digital illustration created in Midjourney

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in March and April: Expect the Unexpected: Fantasy and Science Fiction with Unusual Plot Twists!

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Will a young woman survive when her village is destroyed by an alien space fleet?

Toemeka lives with her family in an idyllic mountain village on a distant planet. She’s aware of the war raging on her world, but the village elders believe it won’t touch them. They’re wrong.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) will host the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference here in Kansas City, June 5-8.

This is the first Nebula Awards I’ve planned to attend. I’m looking forward to the panel discussions and, of course, the awards ceremony.

If you’re planning to be at the Nebulas this year, and want some fun ideas for what to do in KC, SFWA has a lot of good suggestions on their conference page (linked above.) Or just post a comment below and I’ll reach out to you with my own recommendations as someone who’s lived here for nearly thirty years.

Registration opens soon. I hope to see some of you there!

Are you coming to the Nebula Awards this year? Comment below!

My latest novelette, “Fire From Heaven,” now appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 29: First Contact.

In the shadows of an alien world, terror awaits. On the radiation-blasted planet Janus, a team of explorers descends into Abbadon—an ancient mountain facility hiding unimaginable secrets. As they navigate bizarre chambers filled with cryptic carvings, they unleash a nightmare. But the true horror lies not in the alien ruins, but in the chilling implications of the team’s discovery.