Nebula Awards — Best Short Story

Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
2024 Nebula Short Story
Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 by R. S. A. Garcia
2023 Nebula Short Story
Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills
2022 Nebula Short Story
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker
2021 Nebula Short Story
Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell
2020 Nebula Short Story
Give the Family My Love by A. T. Greenblatt
2019 Nebula Short Story
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark
2018 Nebula Short Story
Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse
2017 Nebula Short Story
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
2016 Nebula Short Story
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong
2015 Nebula Short Story
Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
2014 Nebula Short Story
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky
2013 Nebula Short Story
Immersion by Aliette de Bodard
2012 Nebula Short Story
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
2011 Nebula Short Story
How Interesting: A Tiny Man by Harlan Ellison
2010 Nebula Short Story
Spar by Kij Johnson
2009 Nebula Short Story
Trophy Wives by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
2008 Nebula Short Story
Always by Karen Joy Fowler
2007 Nebula Short Story
Echo by Elizabeth Hand
2006 Nebula Short Story
I Live With You by Carol Emshwiller
2005 Nebula Short Story
Coming to Terms by Eileen Gunn
2004 Nebula Short Story
What I Didn’t See by Karen Joy Fowler
2003 Nebula Short Story
Creature by Carol Emshwiller
2002 Nebula Short Story
The Cure for Everything by Severna Park
2001 Nebula Short Story
macs by Terry Bisson
2000 Nebula Short Story
The Cost of Doing Business by Leslie What
1999 Nebula Short Story
Thirteen Ways to Water by Bruce Holland Rogers
1998 Nebula Short Story
Sister Emily’s Lightship by Jane Yolen
1997 Nebula Short Story
A Birthday by Esther M. Friesner
1996 Nebula Short Story
Death and the Librarian by Esther M. Friesner
1995 Nebula Short Story
A Defense of the Social Contracts by Martha Soukup
1994 Nebula Short Story
Graves by Joe Haldeman
1993 Nebula Short Story
Even the Queen by Connie Willis
1992 Nebula Short Story
Ma Qui by Alan Brennert
1991 Nebula Short Story
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
1990 Nebula Short Story
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
1989 Nebula Short Story
Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow
1988 Nebula Short Story
Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
1987 Nebula Short Story
Tangents by Greg Bear
1986 Nebula Short Story
Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress
1985 Nebula Short Story
Morning Child by Gardner Dozois
1984 Nebula Short Story
The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois
1983 Nebula Short Story
A Letter from the Clearys by Connie Willis
1982 Nebula Short Story
The Bone Flute* by Lisa Tuttle
1981 Nebula Short Story
Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak
1980 Nebula Short Story
giANTS by Edward Bryant
1979 Nebula Short Story
Stone by Edward Bryant
1978 Nebula Short Story
Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
1977 Nebula Short Story
A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant
1976 Nebula Short Story
Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber
1975 Nebula Short Story
The Day Before The Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Nebula Short Story
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death by James Tiptree Jr.
1973 Nebula Short Story
When It Changed by Joanna Russ
1972 Nebula Short Story
Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg
1971 Nebula Short Story
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
1970 Nebula Short Story
Passengers by Robert Silverberg
1969 Nebula Short Story
The Planners by Kate Wilhelm
1968 Nebula Short Story
Aye, and Gomorrah… by Samuel R. Delany
1967 Nebula Short Story
The Secret Place by Richard McKenna
1966 Nebula Short Story
‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
1965 Nebula Short Story