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Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed in the next column.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its...
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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; pronounced /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his...
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James White
James White (7 April 1928 - 23 August 1999) was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending early years in Canada.
He is probably best-known as the author of...
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Clifford D. Simak
Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 - April 27, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award, and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 1977....
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Keith Laumer
John Keith Laumer (June 9, 1925(1925-06-09) – January 23, 1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a U.S. diplomat. His brother March Laumer was also a...
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Kate Wilhelm
Kate Wilhelm (née Katie Gertrude Meredith; born June 8, 1928) is an American writer whose works include science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.
Wilhelm was born in in Toledo, Ohio.
Her work has been published in Quark (the anthology series), Orbit ...
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G. C. Edmondson
G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson (full name "José Mario Garry Ordoñez Edmondson y Cotton") (October 11, 1922 in Washington state – December 14, 1995 in San Diego, California). During World War II he...
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Daniel Keyes
Daniel F. Keyes (born August 9, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel "Flowers for Algernon". Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by...
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Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the...
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Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
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James Blish
James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
In...
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John Brunner
John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction...
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Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and...
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R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of...
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Alexei Panshin
Alexis Adams Panshin (born August 14, 1940) is an American author and science fiction (SF) critic. He has written several critical works and several novels, including the 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel Rite of Passage and the 1990 Hugo Award...
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations)...
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Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937, New York City), born to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis, is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary...
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Wilson Tucker
For the football player, see Bob Tucker (American football).
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (November 23, 1914 – October 6, 2006) was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote as Wilson Tucker.
He was also a prominent...
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David G. Compton
David Guy Compton (b. London, Great Britain August 9, 1930) is a science fiction author who publishes under the name D.G. Compton.
Compton began publishing with his 1963 novel Medium for Murder. His 1968 novel The Steel Crocodile (alternate title...
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pronounced /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction....
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George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published...
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Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author.
Norman Spinrad, born in New York City, is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with...
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David Gerrold
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman on 24 January 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series...
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English...
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Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. He is a prolific short...
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T. J. Bass
T. J. Bass, real name Thomas J. Bassler, MD (1932 - ) is an American science fiction author and doctor, having graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine. Bassler currently is listed as practicing cytopathology and...
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics...
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Katherine MacLean
Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short stories of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society.
Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do...
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Alfred Bester
Alfred "Alfie" Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is probably...
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook. Her first child, David R. Bradley, and her brother, Paul...
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Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and nonfiction essays on...
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E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He attended city...
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Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (born September 19, 1947) is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy.
She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle) and many poems. She has also written two episodes...
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Ian Watson
Ian Watson (born 1943) is a British science fiction author. He currently lives in Northamptonshire, England.
His first novel, The Embedding, won the Prix Apollo in 1975, unusual for being based on ideas from generative grammar; the title refers to...
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Arthur Byron
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (born August 7, 1933) is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.
From the beginning,...
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Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he...
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Marta Randall
Marta Randall (born 1948 in Mexico City) is a science fiction writer.
In addition to writing numerous science fiction novels and short fiction, Marta Randall has edited for New Dimensions and Nebula Awards 19.
She has taught science fiction writing...
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Terry Carr
Terry Gene Carr (February 19, 1937 – April 7, 1987) was a U.S. science fiction author and editor.
Terry Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He was an enthusiastic publisher of science fiction fanzines, which later helped open his way into the...
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Richard A. Lupoff
Richard Allen Lupoff, (born February 21, 1935, Brooklyn, New York), is a science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he has also...
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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (pronounced /ˌɡɔər vɪˈdɑːl/ or /vɪˈdæl/) (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal October 3, 1925) is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and political activist. Early in his career he wrote The City and the Pillar (1948), which...
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C. J. Cherryh
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award winning novels...
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Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short...
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Tom Reamy
Tom Reamy (1935–1977) was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy author and important figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. Tom Reamy died prior to the publication of his first novel. His works are primarily dark fantasy....
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Vonda McIntyre
Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville, Kentucky, on August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author.
Vonda N. McIntyre, daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre, earned a degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970. That...
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Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine if, winning the Hugo...
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John Varley
John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947 in Austin, Texas) is an American science fiction author.
Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a...
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Thomas M. Disch
Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – c. July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book (previously entitled "Best Non-Fiction Book") in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and...
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John Middleton Murry, Jr.
John Middleton Murry, Jr. (May 9, 1926 – March 31, 2002) was an English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper.
Murry was the son of the writer John Middleton Murry and his second wife, the former Violet Le Maistre. His mother...
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Walter Tevis
Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 - August 8, 1984) was an American novelist and short story author. His books became the sources for several major films.
Tevis was born in San Francisco, California. As a child, Walter grew up in San Francisco's...
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Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge (pronounced /ˈvɪndʒi/) (born 2 April 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series...
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Robert Stallman
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John Crowley
John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981...
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Russell Hoban
Russell Conwell Hoban (born February 4, 1925) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books who lives in England.
Hoban was born in Lansdale, just outside of Philadelphia,...
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Julian May
Julian May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction writer, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the UK) and Galactic Milieu books.
Julian May grew up in Elmwood Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the oldest...
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Suzy McKee Charnas
Suzy McKee Charnas (born 1939 in New York City) is an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award...
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A. A. Attanasio
Alfred Angelo Attanasio, born on September 20, 1951 in Newark, New Jersey, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His mind-bending science-fiction novel Radix was nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel and was followed by three...
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president...
