Wearing the Lion
core novel 2025 Wearing the Lion
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.61 (1,327 ratings, collected 2026-08-14) |
| Page count | 376 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756419547 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Wearing the Lion
- Series: Wearing the Lion core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: John Wiswell
Awards (verified)
- Nebula Award (Best Novel), 2025: finalist; Confirmed directly via nebulas.sfwa.org's own nominated-work page and the SFWA finalist-announcement press release (61st Annual Nebula Awards, for works published in 2025); the winners announcement confirms it did not win (The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones won Best Novel).
Notes
- From the series record (Wearing the Lion): Standalone; Wiswell's third novel, The Dragon Has Some Complaints (2026, DAW), is a separate, unrelated standalone story, not a sequel to this world. Registered as its own standalone universe, following this project's established single-work/LOTR-analogy convention (as with Someone You Can Build a Nest In, Nettle & Bone, Ink Blood Sister Scribe).
Sources
- Wikipedia: John Wiswell
- Nebula Awards: Wearing the Lion (nominated-work page)
- SFWA: Nebula Awards Finalist Announcement (2026-03-15)
- The Nebula Awards: Introducing SFWA's 61st Annual Nebula Award Winners
- Penguin Random House: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell
- John Wiswell on the Web: Announcing Wearing the Lion
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