Ecco l'elenco dei finalisti al Premio Nebula, che saranno votati dall'Associazione degli Scrittori di Fantascienza americani - la SFWA - e assegnati con una cerimonia ufficiale al Nebula Awards Weekend a Los Angeles, dal 27 al 29 aprile 2001.

Romanzo

A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold

Crescent City Rhapsody, Kathleen Ann Goonan

Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear

Forests of the Heart, Charles de Lint

Infinity Beach, Jack McDevitt

Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson

Romanzo breve

Argonautica, Walter Jon Williams

Crocodile Rock, Lucius Shepard

Fortitude, Andy Duncan

Goddesses, Linda Nagata

Hunting the Snark, Mike Resnick

Ninety Percent of Everything, Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly e John Kessel

Racconto lungo

Daddy's World, Walter Jon Williams

A Day's Work on the Moon, Mike Moscoe

Generation Gap, Stanley Schmidt

How the Highland People Came to Be, Bruce Holland Rogers

Jack Daw's Pack, Greer Gilman

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Gardner Dozois

Stellar Harvest, Eleanor Arnason

Racconto breve

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Jeffrey Ford

Flying Over Water, Ellen Klages

The Golem, Severna Park

macs, Terry Bisson

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur, Michael Swanwick

You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine, Pat York

Sceneggiatura

Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman

Dogma, Kevin Smith

Galaxy Quest, David Howard & Robert Gordon

The Green Mile, Frank Darabont

Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki e Neil Gaiman

Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan