Living Canon

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 by Isabel J. Kim

  2024NebulaShort Story
• The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

  2024NebulaYoung Adult
• The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui

  2024NebulaNovella
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

  2024NebulaNovel
• Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being by A. W. Prihandita

  2024NebulaNovelette
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  To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

  2023NebulaYoung Adult
• The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

  2023NebulaNovelette
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  The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

  2023NebulaNovel
• Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 by R. S. A. Garcia

  2023NebulaShort Story
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  Linghun by Ai Jiang

  2023NebulaNovella
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  Ruby Finley vs. The Interstellar Invasion by K. Tempest Bradford

  2022NebulaYoung Adult
• Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills

  2022NebulaShort Story
• If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Formal You by John Chu

  2022NebulaNovelette
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  Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

  2022NebulaNovella
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  Babel by R. F. Kuang

  2022NebulaNovel
• Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

  2021NebulaShort Story
• O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

  2021NebulaNovelette
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  And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

  2021NebulaNovella
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  A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

  2021NebulaYoung Adult
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  A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

  2021NebulaNovel
• Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker

  2020NebulaNovelette
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  Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

  2020NebulaNovella
• Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell

  2020NebulaShort Story
• Network Effect by Martha Wells

  2020NebulaNovel
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  A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

  2020NebulaYoung Adult
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  This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

  2019NebulaNovella
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  Riverland by Fran Wilde

  2019NebulaYoung Adult
• Give the Family My Love by A. T. Greenblatt

  2019NebulaShort Story
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  Carpe Glitter by Cat Rambo

  2019NebulaNovelette
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  A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker

  2019NebulaNovel
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  The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

  2018NebulaNovella
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  The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark

  2018NebulaShort Story
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  The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

  2018NebulaNovelette
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  The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

  2018NebulaNovel
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  Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

  2018NebulaYoung Adult
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  Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse

  2017NebulaShort Story
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  The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

  2017NebulaNovel
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  The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

  2017NebulaYoung Adult
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  All Systems Red by Martha Wells

  2017NebulaNovella
• A Human Stain by Kelly Robson

  2017NebulaNovelette
• The Long Fall Up by William Ledbetter

  2016NebulaNovelette
• Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar

  2016NebulaShort Story
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  Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

  2016NebulaNovella
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  Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine

  2016NebulaYoung Adult
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  All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

  2016NebulaNovel
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  Uprooted by Naomi Novik

  2015NebulaNovel
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  Updraft by Fran Wilde

  2015NebulaYoung Adult
• Our Lady of the Open Road by Sarah Pinsker

  2015NebulaNovelette
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  Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong

  2015NebulaShort Story
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  Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

  2015NebulaNovella
• Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress

  2014NebulaNovella
• Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson

  2014NebulaYoung Adult
• Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon

  2014NebulaShort Story
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  Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

  2014NebulaNovel
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  A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i by Alaya Dawn Johnson

  2014NebulaNovelette
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  The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan

  2013NebulaNovella
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  The Waiting Stars by Aliette de Bodard

  2013NebulaNovelette
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  Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson

  2013NebulaYoung Adult
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  If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky

  2013NebulaShort Story
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

  2013NebulaNovel
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  Immersion by Aliette de Bodard

  2012NebulaShort Story
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  Fair Coin by E.C. Myers

  2012NebulaYoung Adult
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  Close Encounters by Andy Duncan

  2012NebulaNovelette
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  After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress

  2012NebulaNovella
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  2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

  2012NebulaNovel
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  What We Found by Geoff Ryman

  2011NebulaNovelette
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  The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

  2011NebulaShort Story
• The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson

  2011NebulaNovella
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  The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman

  2011NebulaYoung Adult
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  Among Others by Jo Walton

  2011NebulaNovel
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  The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky

  2010NebulaNovella
• That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made by Eric James Stone

  2010NebulaNovelette
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  I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

  2010NebulaYoung Adult
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  How Interesting: A Tiny Man by Harlan Ellison

  2010NebulaShort Story
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  Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

  2010NebulaNovel
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  The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker

  2009NebulaNovella
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  The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

  2009NebulaNovel
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  The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

  2009NebulaYoung Adult
• Spar by Kij Johnson

  2009NebulaShort Story
• Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster

  2009NebulaNovelette
• Trophy Wives by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

  2008NebulaShort Story
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  The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro

  2008NebulaNovella
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  Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel

  2008NebulaNovelette
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  Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin

  2008NebulaNovel
• 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) by Ysabeau S. Wilce

  2008NebulaYoung Adult
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon

  2007NebulaNovel
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  The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang

  2007NebulaNovelette
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  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

  2007NebulaYoung Adult
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  Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress

  2007NebulaNovella
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  Always by Karen Joy Fowler

  2007NebulaShort Story
• Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle

  2006NebulaNovelette
• Seeker by Jack McDevitt

  2006NebulaNovel
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  Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier

  2006NebulaYoung Adult
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  Echo by Elizabeth Hand

  2006NebulaShort Story
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  Burn by James Patrick Kelly

  2006NebulaNovella
• Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black

  2005NebulaYoung Adult
• The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link

  2005NebulaNovelette
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  Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

  2005NebulaNovella
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  I Live With You by Carol Emshwiller

  2005NebulaShort Story
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  Camouflage by Joe Haldeman

  2005NebulaNovel
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  The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams

  2004NebulaNovella
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  Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

  2004NebulaNovel
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  Coming to Terms by Eileen Gunn

  2004NebulaShort Story
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  Basement Magic by Ellen Klages

  2004NebulaNovelette
• What I Didn’t See by Karen Joy Fowler

  2003NebulaShort Story
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  The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

  2003NebulaNovel
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  The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford

  2003NebulaNovelette
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  Coraline by Neil Gaiman

  2003NebulaNovella
• Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang

  2002NebulaNovelette
• Creature by Carol Emshwiller

  2002NebulaShort Story
• Bronte’s Egg by Richard Chwedyk

  2002NebulaNovella
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  American Gods by Neil Gaiman

  2002NebulaNovel
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  The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson

  2001NebulaNovella
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  The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro

  2001NebulaNovel
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  The Cure for Everything by Severna Park

  2001NebulaShort Story
• Louise’s Ghost by Kelly Link

  2001NebulaNovelette
• macs by Terry Bisson

  2000NebulaShort Story
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  Goddesses by Linda Nagata

  2000NebulaNovella
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  Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear

  2000NebulaNovel
• Daddy’s World by Walter Jon Williams

  2000NebulaNovelette
• The Cost of Doing Business by Leslie What

  1999NebulaShort Story
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  Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

  1999NebulaNovella
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  Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

  1999NebulaNovel
• Mars Is No Place for Children by Mary A. Turzillo

  1999NebulaNovelette
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  Thirteen Ways to Water by Bruce Holland Rogers

  1998NebulaShort Story
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  Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch

  1998NebulaNovella
• Lost Girls by Jane Yolen

  1998NebulaNovelette
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  Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

  1998NebulaNovel
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  The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

  1997NebulaNovel
• The Flowers of Aulit Prison by Nancy Kress

  1997NebulaNovelette
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  Sister Emily’s Lightship by Jane Yolen

  1997NebulaShort Story
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  Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion

  1997NebulaNovella
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  Slow River by Nicola Griffith

  1996NebulaNovel
• Lifeboat on a Burning Sea by Bruce Holland Rogers

  1996NebulaNovelette
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  Da Vinci Rising by Jack Dann

  1996NebulaNovella
• A Birthday by Esther M. Friesner

  1996NebulaShort Story
• The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

  1995NebulaNovel
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  Solitude by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1995NebulaNovelette
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  Last Summer of Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand

  1995NebulaNovella
• Death and the Librarian by Esther M. Friesner

  1995NebulaShort Story
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  The Martian Child by David Gerrold

  1994NebulaNovelette
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  Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick

  1994NebulaNovella
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  Moving Mars by Greg Bear

  1994NebulaNovel
• A Defense of the Social Contracts by Martha Soukup

  1994NebulaShort Story
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  The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady

  1993NebulaNovella
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  Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1993NebulaNovel
• Graves by Joe Haldeman

  1993NebulaShort Story
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  Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield

  1993NebulaNovelette
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  Even the Queen by Connie Willis

  1992NebulaShort Story
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

  1992NebulaNovel
• Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent

  1992NebulaNovelette
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  City of Truth by James Morrow

  1992NebulaNovella
• Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

  1991NebulaNovel
• Ma Qui by Alan Brennert

  1991NebulaShort Story
• Guide Dog by Mike Conner

  1991NebulaNovelette
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  Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

  1991NebulaNovella
• Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold

  1990NebulaNovella
• Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang

  1990NebulaNovelette
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1990NebulaNovel
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  Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson

  1990NebulaShort Story
• The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

  1989NebulaNovella
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  The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Anne Scarborough

  1989NebulaNovel
• Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis

  1989NebulaShort Story
• At the Rialto by Connie Willis

  1989NebulaNovelette
• The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis

  1988NebulaNovella
• Schrodinger’s Kitten by George Alec Effinger

  1988NebulaNovelette
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  Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

  1988NebulaNovel
• Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow

  1988NebulaShort Story
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  The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

  1987NebulaNovel
• The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1987NebulaNovella
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  Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

  1987NebulaNovelette
• Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm

  1987NebulaShort Story
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  The Girl Who Fell into the Sky by Kate Wilhelm

  1986NebulaNovelette
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  Tangents by Greg Bear

  1986NebulaShort Story
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  Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

  1986NebulaNovel
• R&R by Lucius Shepard

  1986NebulaNovella
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  Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

  1985NebulaNovella
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  Portraits of His Children by George R.R. Martin

  1985NebulaNovelette
• Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress

  1985NebulaShort Story
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  Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

  1985NebulaNovel
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  PRESS ENTER[] by John Varley

  1984NebulaNovella
• Neuromancer by William Gibson

  1984NebulaNovel
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  Morning Child by Gardner Dozois

  1984NebulaShort Story
• Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

  1984NebulaNovelette
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  The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois

  1983NebulaShort Story
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  Startide Rising by David Brin , published by

  1983NebulaNovel
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  Hardfought by Greg Bear

  1983NebulaNovella
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  Blood Music by Greg Bear

  1983NebulaNovelette
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  No Enemy but Time by Michael Bishop

  1982NebulaNovel
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  Fire Watch by Connie Willis

  1982NebulaNovelette
• Another Orphan by John Kessel

  1982NebulaNovella
• A Letter from the Clearys by Connie Willis

  1982NebulaShort Story
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  The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson

  1981NebulaNovella
• The Quickening by Michael Bishop

  1981NebulaNovelette
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  The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

  1981NebulaNovel
• The Bone Flute* by Lisa Tuttle

  1981NebulaShort Story
• Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

  1980NebulaNovella
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  Timescape by Gregory Benford

  1980NebulaNovel
• The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop

  1980NebulaNovelette
• Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak

  1980NebulaShort Story
• giANTS by Edward Bryant

  1979NebulaShort Story
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  The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

  1979NebulaNovel
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  Sandkings by George R.R. Martin

  1979NebulaNovelette
• Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear

  1979NebulaNovella
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  The Persistence of Vision by John Varley

  1978NebulaNovella
• Stone by Edward Bryant

  1978NebulaShort Story
• Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

  1978NebulaNovel
• A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn’s Eye by Charles L. Grant

  1978NebulaNovelette
• The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr.

  1977NebulaNovelette
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  Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson

  1977NebulaNovella
• Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison

  1977NebulaShort Story
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  Gateway by Frederik Pohl

  1977NebulaNovel
• The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov

  1976NebulaNovelette
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  Man Plus by Frederik Pohl

  1976NebulaNovel
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  Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.

  1976NebulaNovella
• A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant

  1976NebulaShort Story
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  The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

  1975NebulaNovel
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  San Diego Lightfoot Sue by Tom Reamy

  1975NebulaNovelette
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  Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny

  1975NebulaNovella
• Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber

  1975NebulaShort Story
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  The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1974NebulaNovel
• The Day Before The Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1974NebulaShort Story
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  If the Stars are Gods by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund

  1974NebulaNovelette
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  Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg

  1974NebulaNovella
• The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe

  1973NebulaNovella
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  Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

  1973NebulaNovel
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  Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre

  1973NebulaNovelette
• Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death by James Tiptree Jr.

  1973NebulaShort Story
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  When It Changed by Joanna Russ

  1972NebulaShort Story
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  The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

  1972NebulaNovel
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  Goat Song by Poul Anderson

  1972NebulaNovelette
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  A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke

  1972NebulaNovella
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  The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson

  1971NebulaNovelette
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  The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean

  1971NebulaNovella
• Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg

  1971NebulaShort Story
• A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg

  1971NebulaNovel
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  Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon

  1970NebulaNovelette
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  Ringworld by Larry Niven

  1970NebulaNovel
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  Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber

  1970NebulaNovella
• A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois

  1970NebulaShort Story
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany

  1969NebulaNovelette
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  The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1969NebulaNovel
• Passengers by Robert Silverberg

  1969NebulaShort Story
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  A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison

  1969NebulaNovella
• The Planners by Kate Wilhelm

  1968NebulaShort Story
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  Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin

  1968NebulaNovel
• Mother to the World by Richard Wilson

  1968NebulaNovelette
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  Dragonrider by Anne McCaffrey

  1968NebulaNovella
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  The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

  1967NebulaNovel
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  Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber

  1967NebulaNovelette
• Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

  1967NebulaNovella
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  Aye, and Gomorrah… by Samuel R. Delany

  1967NebulaShort Story
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  The Secret Place by Richard McKenna

  1966NebulaShort Story
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  The Last Castle by Jack Vance

  1966NebulaNovella
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  Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  1966NebulaNovel
• Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson

  1966NebulaNovelette
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  ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison

  1965NebulaShort Story
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  The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss

  1965NebulaNovella
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  The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny

  1965NebulaNovelette
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  Dune by Frank Herbert

  1965NebulaNovel

• Best Novel
• Best Novelette
• Best Novella
• Best Short Story
• Best Young Adult

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards