Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), honor outstanding science fiction and fantasy. Explore winners by year across novel, novella, novelette, and short story.
- Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
- The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts
- The Dragonfly Gambit
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
- The Year Without Sunshine
- The Saint of Bright Doors
- Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200
- Linghun
- Ruby Finley vs. The Interstellar Invasion
- Rabbit Test
- If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Formal You
- Even Though I Knew the End
- Babel
- Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather
- O2 Arena
- And What Can We Offer You Tonight
- A Snake Falls to Earth
- A Master of Djinn
- Two Truths and a Lie
- Ring Shout
- Open House on Haunted Hill
- Network Effect
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
- This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Riverland
- Give the Family My Love
- Carpe Glitter
- A Song for a New Day
- The Tea Master and the Detective
- The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
- The Only Harmless Great Thing
- The Calculating Stars
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™
- The Stone Sky
- The Art of Starving
- All Systems Red
- A Human Stain
- The Long Fall Up
- Seasons of Glass and Iron
- Every Heart a Doorway
- Arabella of Mars
- All the Birds in the Sky
- Uprooted
- Updraft
- Our Lady of the Open Road
- Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
- Binti
- Yesterday’s Kin
- Love Is the Drug
- Jackalope Wives
- Annihilation
- A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i
- The Weight of the Sunrise
- The Waiting Stars
- Sister Mine
- If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
- Ancillary Justice
- Immersion
- Fair Coin
- Close Encounters
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
- 2312
- What We Found
- The Paper Menagerie
- The Man Who Bridged the Mist
- The Freedom Maze
- Among Others
- The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window
- That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- How Interesting: A Tiny Man
- Blackout/All Clear
- The Women of Nell Gwynne’s
- The Windup Girl
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- Spar
- Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
- Trophy Wives
- The Spacetime Pool
- Pride and Prometheus
- Powers
- Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room)
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
- The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Fountain of Age
- Always
- Two Hearts
- Seeker
- Magic or Madness
- Echo
- Burn
- Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
- The Faery Handbag
- Magic for Beginners
- I Live With You
- Camouflage
- The Green Leopard Plague
- Paladin of Souls
- Coming to Terms
- Basement Magic
- What I Didn’t See
- The Speed of Dark
- The Empire of Ice Cream
- Coraline
- Hell is the Absence of God
- Creature
- Bronte’s Egg
- American Gods
- The Ultimate Earth
- The Quantum Rose
- The Cure for Everything
- Louise’s Ghost
- macs
- Goddesses
- Darwin’s Radio
- Daddy’s World
- The Cost of Doing Business
- Story of Your Life
- Parable of the Talents
- Mars Is No Place for Children
- Thirteen Ways to Water
- Reading the Bones
- Lost Girls
- Forever Peace
- The Moon and the Sun
- The Flowers of Aulit Prison
- Sister Emily’s Lightship
- Abandon in Place
- Slow River
- Lifeboat on a Burning Sea
- Da Vinci Rising
- A Birthday
- The Terminal Experiment
- Solitude
- Last Summer of Mars Hill
- Death and the Librarian
- The Martian Child
- Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
- Moving Mars
- A Defense of the Social Contracts
- The Night We Buried Road Dog
- Red Mars
- Graves
- Georgia on My Mind
- Even the Queen
- Doomsday Book
- Danny Goes to Mars
- City of Truth
- Stations of the Tide
- Ma Qui
- Guide Dog
- Beggars in Spain
- Weatherman
- Tower of Babylon
- Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
- Bears Discover Fire
- The Mountains of Mourning
- The Healer’s War
- Ripples in the Dirac Sea
- At the Rialto
- The Last of the Winnebagos
- Schrodinger’s Kitten
- Falling Free
- Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge
- The Falling Woman
- The Blind Geometer
- Rachel in Love
- Forever Yours, Anna
- The Girl Who Fell into the Sky
- Tangents
- Speaker for the Dead
- R&R
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Portraits of His Children
- Out of All Them Bright Stars
- Ender’s Game
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- Neuromancer
- Morning Child
- Bloodchild
- The Peacemaker
- Startide Rising
- Hardfought
- Blood Music
- No Enemy but Time
- Fire Watch
- Another Orphan
- A Letter from the Clearys
- The Saturn Game
- The Quickening
- The Claw of the Conciliator
- The Bone Flute*
- Unicorn Tapestry
- Timescape
- The Ugly Chickens
- Grotto of the Dancing Deer
- giANTS
- The Fountains of Paradise
- Sandkings
- Enemy Mine
- The Persistence of Vision
- Stone
- Dreamsnake
- A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn’s Eye
- The Screwfly Solution
- Stardance
- Jeffty is Five
- Gateway
- The Bicentennial Man
- Man Plus
- Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
- A Crowd of Shadows
- The Forever War
- San Diego Lightfoot Sue
- Home is the Hangman
- Catch That Zeppelin!
- The Dispossessed
- The Day Before The Revolution
- If the Stars are Gods
- Born With the Dead
- The Death of Doctor Island
- Rendezvous with Rama
- Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
- Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
- When It Changed
- The Gods Themselves
- Goat Song
- A Meeting with Medusa
- The Queen of Air and Darkness
- The Missing Man
- Good News from the Vatican
- A Time of Changes
- Slow Sculpture
- Ringworld
- Ill Met in Lankhmar
- A Dream at Noonday
- Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- Passengers
- A Boy and His Dog
- The Planners
- Rite of Passage
- Mother to the World
- Dragonrider
- The Einstein Intersection
- Gonna Roll the Bones
- Behold the Man
- Aye, and Gomorrah…
- The Secret Place
- The Last Castle
- Flowers for Algernon
- Call Him Lord
- ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman
- The Saliva Tree
- The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
- Dune