Renan Bernardo is a Nebula Award finalist!

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Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE is a Nebula finalist! • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE out with a new cover! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian/Latino author More: https://linktr.ee/renanbernardo1

Me, a white male with a greying beard holding my book, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle and the Nebula Award certificate for Best Novella finalist. I'm smiling and looking at the camera.
A book called Of Dread, Decay, and Doom, edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L Poweel and Scarlett R. Algee. The cover consists of horror elements like a fire dragon in the front surrounded by ravens, skulls, and candles.
Me, a white bearded man holding a magazine. The magazine has its cover in German and contains a female person dancing with a robot with people partying behind.
Me, a young boy about 12 or 13 writing with pen and paper with a funny face, looking sideways.
A book cover: Multitude by Marie Vibbert. It contains tentacles coming out of the water with a starry background.
The text: Hey Renan, We are putting together the next Crewfiction giveaway (both for KU and non-KU) and wanted to ask you in. 10-15 authors give away a book the same week, all pointing at one landing page. I picked "Clarkesworld Magazine" because the depth is there and Book 1 can be set for free — the combo that makes the free week pay. You'd come away with 1000+ new subs (yours to keep) plus readthrough sales across the rest of "Clarkesworld Magazine". Crewfiction handles everything — emails, metrics, creatives, upsells, data analysis. Interested?
Final Fantasy VI illustration: Terra in a mecha. A blonde, white woman wearing red clothes controlling a big, black mecha. She's facing a grey and black city with high towers and baloons.
Minha foto: um homem branco de barba preta sorrindo e usando óculos. No canto, a frase: finalista do Nebula. Embaixo: O infame retorno da Tecelã Renan Bernardo - em 2027 Na história, após uma missão fracassada, a nave Tecelã tenta retornar à Terra com oxigênio no limite. Responsável por decidir quem vive ou morre, Reva precisa enfrentar um capitão corrupto e confiar em uma antiga inimiga para salvar o filho.
A postcard. It's the cover of a book. Of Dread, Decay, and Doom. It contains the head of a dragon breathing fire in the front, surrounded by black wings, skulls, and candles.
A text: Hexabytes of surveillance logs and libraries filled with countless pages of auto-reports all promised the Kapteyn-d expedition team a great future on the new planet. All the data was wrong.
A text with stars in the background with Nebula logo containing a nebula and a shooting star. It's written: 2026 Nebula Award Finalist.
A beach. There are some stones, some of them very big and trees on the left side. The water is visible at the right side and there are hills on the back.
A blonde boy in a bycicle looking at a sunset on the horizon. There are mechas moving through muddy water in front of him.
A hand holding a book cover: Different Kind of Defiance by Renan Bernardo. The upper part of the cover contains trees with golden leaves and the middle contains clouds. In the botoom, there are a few drones flying. There's a blurb by Ai Jiang on the cover.
Hands holding a black cover with a flower growing wildly, stemming to several directions. The petal is full and resembles smoke at some points. It's called ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Edited by Marissa Van Uden.
A hand holding a book called We're Here: The Best of Speculative Fiction 2024. It contains a shirtless, long-haired person riding a fantastical ibex with other people watching. One of them is blowing a horn. There's someone holding a rainbow flag, riding a horse but cut off by the cover. There are trees and a giant moon behind.
A paper box containing several copies of the book Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, which shows a skull inside an astronaut helmet with colors leaking across it.
A book cover: Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle showing a skull inside a space helmet.
A black shirt with a round image with a pyramid, some geographical features, and random flying objects poorly drawn.
Front cover showing a black woman with cloudy hair and glasses hugging a neglected robot with one broken eye. There's a city with low buildings and trees behind them.
A moodboard: the book in the center has a black cover with a skull inside a space helmet, and it's called Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Other elements: an astronaut on a deserted planet; the interior of a spaceship with lights beaming on the ceiling; a glazed space helmet; a planet; a mask showing a creepy smile; a woman breathing inside a space helmet; a silhouette of an astronaut wearing a spacesuit; shining stars.
A white man in glasses with a black, greying beard in front of a bookshelf. He's holding the book, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, which features a skull in a space helmet. The man's shirt contains two Egyptian figures and a Stargate with a pyramid on its center, plus two staves underneath it.
A black cover reading Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Author is Renan Bernardo, Nebula and Ignyte finalist. The cover contains a skull in a space helmet with colorful streaks leaking up and down. Tags around the cover: powerful narcotic, hostile fungus, coup in a generational ship, degenerate crew, noir vibes, doomed spaceship, dark space opera, sci-fi thriller.
The certificate which reads, in Portuguese: "Prêmio Argos 2024 - clube de leitores de ficção científica. Por meio deste diploma o clube de leitores de ficção científica certifica breve biografia de uma cadeira lúcida (revista samovar), de Renan Bernardo, como obra finalista da categoria melhor conto do prêmio argos".
An ereader showing a book called A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. It shows a domed settlement with an underground facility beneath it. Tagline reads: can we settle space, should we settle space and have we really thought this through.
A white hand holding a book cover. The book is called "Of enchantment, enigma, and the infinite, edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L Powell." It features butterflies, a dragon, and a crystal ball in the center with some other fantastic motifs all around.
A white hand holding a book with a white cover with several flowers. It's called Bright Green Futures 2024. Edited by Susan Kaye Quinn.
A cover in a e-reader held by a white hand. It contains butterflies on the left, a crystal ball on the center, and a dragon on the right, all surrounded by haze and sprinkes. It's called Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite.
A shot from above: Copacabana beach with a small group of people in green and yellow colors. They're on the sidewalk. There are cars parked nearby and some more people on the sand.
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An image with the following text: I bought this after reading Disgraced return as I really loved it. This was a wonderful collection of short stories. Such a rare treat to have environmental post apocalyptic fiction that ended up feeling postive and hopeful. The last story in particular stuck with me as a woman driven story, this wasn't a future where women were reduced to having children and the men were all warriors. It felt so much more realistic. There were still the now problems of money vs poverty, and the way both drove people to different types of crime. But also there was shared humanity and care for each other, and found family. I really enjoyed all the stories and will definitely pick up all the books Renan writes. I'm looking forward to reading what he does next.
An e-reader showing a book called Abducted by Patrick Barb. There's a black sky with stars and a house with a silhouette by the window.
Baloons with reviews around the book cover of Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle (a skull in a space helmet): "A claustrophobic sci-fi horror novella that will have you gasping for air." "An amazing, impactful novella. I wasn’t expecting that ending. Just, wow." "Bernardo really excels at creating a tense atmosphere." "Perfect if you are looking for an impactful bite of the genre; Bernardo is a voice to keep a tab on!" "A tense, clever, and dark exploration of the potential follies of space exploration." "The ending is a total gut punch! Truly a top read of the year!"
Two bookshelves with lots of JRR Tolkien books and a few from Harry Turtledove
Five stars with the text: "If you're looking for a story with no good guys, this could be for you. The motivations seem all to real and you get pulled along by the planet colonization adventure. Everyone gets what they deserve. Well paced and a satisfying quick read."
Me, a white man with short black hair and short black beard, wearing an X-Men t-shirt, in front of St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican: a domed and large building made of white marble. I'm looking at the camera. There are empty chairs on my right.
Someone walking to a book shelf and seeing a book on it: the cover is composed of plants and flowers. It's called Bright Green Futures.
A cover with a skull in an astronaut spacesuit with the tags dark space opera, sci-fi thriller, powerful narcotic, hostile planet, noir vibes, degenarete crew, doomed spaceship, and coup in a generational spaceship.
A book with called Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo. The cover contains a mountain with the sun looming behind it and an urban environment with clouds all around on the streets.