Nebula Award for Best Novella

Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novella. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year.

Winners and other nominees

Year	Winner	Other nominees
1965	(tie) The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny	Rogue Dragon by Avram Davidson The Ballad of Beta-2 by Samuel R. Delany The Mercurymen by C. C. MacApp Under Two Moons by Frederik Pohl Research Alpha by A. E. van Vogt & James H. Schmitz On the Storm Planet by Cordwainer Smith
1966	The Last Castle by Jack Vance	Clash of Star-Kings by Avram Davidson The Alchemist by Charles L. Harness
1967	Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock	Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
1968	Dragonrider by Anne McCaffrey	Lines of Power by Samuel R. Delany The Day Before Forever by Keith Laumer Hawk Among the Sparrows by Dean McLaughlin Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
1969	A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison	Probable Cause by Charles L. Harness Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber Dramatic Mission by Anne McCaffrey To Jorslem by Robert Silverberg
1970	Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber	The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson A Style in Treason by James Blish The Region Between by Harlan Ellison The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak April Fool's Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
1971	The Missing Man by Katherine Maclean	Being There by Jerzy Kosinski The God House by Keith Roberts The Infinity Box by Kate Wilhelm The Plastic Abyss by Kate Wilhelm
1972	A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke	Son of the Morning by Phyllis Gotlieb The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama by Richard A. Lupoff The Gold at the Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
1973	The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe	Death and Designation Among the Asadi by Michael Bishop The White Otters of Childhood by Michael Bishop Junction by Jack Dann Chains of the Sea by Gardner Dozois
1974	Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg	On the Street of the Serpents by Michael Bishop A Song for Lya by George R. R. Martin
1975	Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny	Sunrise West by William K. Carlson The Storms of Windhaven by Lisa Tuttle & George R. R. Martin A Momentary Taste of Being   by James Tiptree, Jr.
1976	Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr.	The Samurai and the Willows by Michael Bishop Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Richard Cowper The Eyeflash Miracles by Gene Wolfe
1977	Stardance by Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson	Aztecs by Vonda N. McIntyre
1978	The Persistence of Vision by John Varley	Seven American Nights by Gene Wolfe
1979	Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear	The Tale of Gorgik by Samuel R. Delany Mars Masked by Frederik Pohl The Battle of the Abaco Reefs by Hilbert Schenck Fireship by Joan D. Vinge The Story Writer by Richard Wilson
1980	Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas	There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me by Avram Davidson Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch Dangerous Games by Marta Randall The Autopsy by Michael Shea
1981	The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson	Swarmer, Skimmer by Gregory Benford Amnesia by Jack Dann In the Western Tradition by Phyllis Eisenstein True Names by Vernor Vinge The Winter Beach by Kate Wilhelm
1982	Another Orphan by John Kessel	Horrible Imaginings by Fritz Leiber Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver Unsound Variations by George R. R. Martin Souls by Joanna Russ
1983	Hardfought by Greg Bear	The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis by Michael Bishop Her Habiline Husband by Michael Bishop Eszterhazy and the Autogóndola-Invention by Avram Davidson Transit by Vonda N. McIntyre Homefaring by Robert Silverberg
1984	Press ENTER by John Varley	Young Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson Trinity by Nancy Kress The Greening of Bed-Stuy by Frederik Pohl A Traveler's Tale by Lucius Shepard Marrow Death by Michael Swanwick
1985	Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg	Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Green Days in Brunei by Bruce Sterling The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree, Jr. The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
1986	R&R by Lucius Shepard	Newton Sleep by Gregory Benford Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg Dydeetown Girl by F. Paul Wilson
1987	The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson	Fugue State by John M. Ford The Tiger Sweater by Keith Roberts The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg Witness by Walter Jon Williams
1988	The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis	The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
1989	The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold	Great Work of Time by John Crowley Marîd Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
1990	The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman	Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly Bones by Pat Murphy
1991	Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress	Man Opening a Door by Paul Ash Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop Bully! by Mike Resnick The Gallery of His Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Jack by Connie Willis
1992	City of Truth by James Morrow	Silver or Gold by Emma Bull The Territory by Bradley Denton Contact by Jerry Oltion & Lee Goodloe Protection by Maureen F. McHugh Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
1993	The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady	The Beauty Addict by Ray Aldridge Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley Naming the Flowers by Kate Wilhelm Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams
1994	Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick[1]	Mefisto In Onyx by Harlan Ellison Haunted Humans by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin Fan by Geoff Ryman Cold Iron by Michael Swanwick
1995	Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand	Soon Comes Night by Gregory Benford Yaguara by Nicola Griffith Bibi by Mike Resnick & Susan Shwartz Mortimer Gray's History of Death by Brian Stableford
1996	Da Vinci Rising by Jack Dann	A Woman's Liberation by Ursula K. Le Guin Blood of the Dragon by George R. R. Martin Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele
1997	Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion	The Funeral March of the Marionettes by Adam-Troy Castro Loose Ends by Paul Levinson Chrysalis by Robert Reed Primrose and Thorn by Bud Sparhawk …Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele
1998	Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch	Aurora in Four Voices by Catherine Asaro The Boss in the Wall, A Treatise on the House Devil by Avram Davidson & Grania Davis Izzy and the Father of Terror by Eliot Fintushel Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold Ecopoiesis by Geoffrey A. Landis
1999	Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang	Reality Check by Michael A. Burstein The Astronaut from Wyoming by Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion Living Trust by L. Timmel Duchamp The Executioners' Guild by Andy Duncan The Wedding Album by David Marusek
2000	Goddesses by Linda Nagata	Fortitude by Andy Duncan Ninety Percent of Everything by Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel Hunting the Snark by Mike Resnick Crocodile Rock by Lucius Shepard Argonautica by Walter Jon Williams
2001	The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson	A Roll of the Dice by Catherine Asaro May Be Some Time by Brenda W. Clough The Diamond Pit by Jack Dann Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard
2002	Bronte's Egg by Richard Chwedyk	Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's by Adam-Troy Castro The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan The Political Officer by Charles Coleman Finlay Magic's Price by Bud Sparhawk
2003	Coraline   by Neil Gaiman	The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker Stories for Men by John Kessel Breathmoss by Ian R. MacLeod
2004	The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams	Walk in Silence by Catherine Asaro The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes by Adam-Troy Castro The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge Just Like the Ones We Used to Know by Connie Willis
2005	Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link[2]	Clay's Pride by Bud Sparhawk Identity Theft by Robert J. Sawyer Left of the Dial by Paul Witcover The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey
2006[3]	Burn by James Patrick Kelly	Sanctuary by Michael A. Burstein The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko Inclination by William Shunn
2007[4]	Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress[5]	Awakening by Judith Berman The Helper and His Hero by Matt Hughes Stars Seen Through Stone by Lucius Shepard Kiosk by Bruce Sterling Memorare by Gene Wolfe
2008[6]	The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro[7]	Dark Heaven by Gregory Benford Dangerous Space by Kelley Eskridge The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay The Duke in His Castle by Vera Nazarian
2009[8]	The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker[9]	Arkfall by Carolyn Ives Gilman Act One by Nancy Kress Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford The God Engines by John Scalzi
2010[10]	The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky	The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi Iron Shoes by J. Kathleen Cheney The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang The Sultan of the Clouds by Geoffrey A. Landis Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance by Paul Park

See also

• Hugo Award for Best Novella
• Lambda Literary Award
• Locus Award

References

1. ^ Jones, Gerald (May 12, 1996). "Science Fiction". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/books/science-fiction.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved March 30, 2010. 
2. ^ "2005 Nebula Award winners". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.. 2006-05-06. http://www.sfwa.org/news/2006/06nebwin.htm. 
3. ^ "2006 SFWA Final Nebula Awards ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.. 2007-05-07. http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2007/NebFinal2006.html. 
4. ^ "2007 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.. http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2008/NebFinal2007.html. 
5. ^ Mills, Nicole (2008-04-28). "Newsmakers: Chabon takes Nebula". Austin American-Statesman. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/04/28/0428makers.html. 
6. ^ "2008 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.. http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/guest_blogs/2009_nebula_award_ballot/. 
7. ^ "Nebula Awards 2009". Cover It Live. 2009-04-25. http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=21d947440a. Retrieved 2009-04-25. 
8. ^ "2009 SFWA Final Nebula Awards Ballot". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc.. http://www.sfwa.org/2010/02/2009-nebula-awards-final-ballot/. Retrieved March 30, 2010. 
9. ^ Winners: 2009 Nebula Awards, SF Signal, accessed May 15, 2010.
10. ^ http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/

External links

• Nebula Awards Homepage
• List of past winners
• "Nebula Nominees List". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NebulaNomList.html.