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Isabel J Kim

Isabel J. Kim lives near New York City in an apartment filled with books and swords. She is the author of numerous short stories and has won the Nebula, Locus, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Her work has been translated into multiple languages and reprinted in multiple best of the year anthologies.

When she’s not writing, she’s practicing law or podcasting. Sublimation is her first novel.

Awards: Nebula (2024), BSFA (2024), Jackson (2021) see all

Genres: Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

May 2026

The Perpetual Post

June 2026

Sublimation

Novels

Sublimation (2026)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Perpetual Post (2026)

Series contributed to

Tor.Com Original
Freediver (2025)

Books containing stories by Isabel J Kim

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 10 (2026)
(Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, book 10)
edited by
Allan Kaster

Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 229 (2025)
(Clarkesworld Magazine, book 229)

Nebula Awards Showcase 60 (2025)
(Nebula Award Stories, book 60)
edited by
Stephen Kotowych

More books

Awards

	2025 Locus Award for Best Short Story : Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
	2024 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
	2024 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction : Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
	2021 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction : You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday

Award nominations

	2026 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist) : Wire Mother
	2026 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Wire Mother
	2025 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (finalist) : Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
	2025 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole

Isabel J Kim recommends

Salvagia (2025)
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"Salvagia makes the climate apocalypse look cool. From the depths of sunken Miami to the heights of atmo-breaker races, Chawaga zips through post-climate change Florida, taking his characters through a thrilling murder mystery that unravels into a set of corporate and personal entanglements that serve as a neat mirror of our own world's issues, magnified and extrapolated into the future."

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