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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

For the lead singer of the band The Sisters of Mercy, see Andrew Eldritch. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 novel by American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. Like...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Philip K. Dick

Dune

Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It won the Hugo Award in 1966, and also the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune was also the first bestselling hardcover science fiction novel, and it is frequently...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Frank Herbert

x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Frank Herbert

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Frank Herbert

Nova Express

Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William Burroughs, whose plot cannot easily be described. It features Burroughs' cut-up method of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel, including T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", among others. It is the...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: William S. Burroughs

Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb

Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. Dick wrote the novel in 1963 with working titles In Earth's Diurnal Course and A...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Philip K. Dick

The Genocides

The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel written by Thomas M. Disch. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. The novel describes the extermination of humans by aliens who are using the Earth to grow plants. These plants...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Thomas M. Disch

The Clone

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kate Wilhelm

The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: G. C. Edmondson

All Flesh is Grass

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Clifford D. Simak

The Star Fox

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Poul Anderson

A Plague of Demons

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Keith Laumer

Rogue Dragon

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Avram Davidson

The Escape Orbit

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: James White

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth. The novel expresses and discusses libertarian ideals in a speculative context. Originally...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

Babel-17

Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (that language strongly influences thought and perceived reality) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for...

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Keyes

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Keyes

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Short Story

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Keyes

The Eskimo Invasion

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novelette

x Award Nominee:: Hayden Howard

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Hayden Howard

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novelette

x Award Nominee:: Hayden Howard

Lord of Light

Lord of Light (1967) is an epic science fiction/fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny. It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category. Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Roger Zelazny

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Roger Zelazny

Chthon

Chthon is a science fiction novel by Piers Anthony, originally released in 1967. It was Anthony's first published novel, and was nominated for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. The novel depicts...

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Piers Anthony

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Piers Anthony

The Einstein Intersection

The Einstein Intersection is a 1967 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. It is sometimes titled A Fabulous, Formless Darkness, the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

Thorns

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Philip K. Dick

Stand on Zanzibar

Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopic New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1968. The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969. A lengthy book, it was innovative...

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

Rite of Passage

Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968, this novel about a Shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969. Rite of Passage is...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Alexei Panshin

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Alexei Panshin

Black Easter

Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: James Blish

Past Master

Past Master is a novel by science fiction writer R. A. Lafferty. It was first published in 1968, and was nominated for the 1968 Nebula award (Rite of Passage won) and the 1969 Hugo award (Stand on Zanzibar won). It is generally categorized as part...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: R. A. Lafferty

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: R. A. Lafferty

The Masks of Time

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Picnic on Paradise

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Joanna Russ

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1969. The book is one of the first major works of feminist science fiction and is one in a series of books by Le Guin all set in the fictional Hainish...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim. Chaplain's Assistant...

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x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kurt Vonnegut

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kurt Vonnegut

Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead is a science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny published in 1969. It is inspired in part by the eponymous painting. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1969, and won the French Prix Apollo in 1972. Francis Sandow is...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Roger Zelazny

The Jagged Orbit

The Jagged Orbit is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner. It was first published in 1969, in the Ace Science Fiction Specials line issued by Ace Books, and is similar to his earlier novel, Stand on Zanzibar in its narrative style and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

Up the Line

Up the Line (1969) is a time travel novel by American science fiction author Robert Silverberg. The plot revolves mainly around the paradoxes brought about by time travel, though it is also notable for its liberal dosage of sex and humor. It was...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Bug Jack Barron

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Norman Spinrad

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Norman Spinrad

Ringworld

Ringworld is a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. It is followed by three sequels, and ties into numerous other...

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x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Larry Niven

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Larry Niven

Tower of Glass

Tower of Glass is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, published in 1970. It was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1970, and for both the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971. The plot involves a 24th century entrepreneur-tycoon-scientist, Simeon...

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x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

The Year of the Quiet Sun

The Year of the Quiet Sun is a 1970 science fiction novel by Wilson Tucker about the use of forward time travel to ascertain future political and social events. It won a retrospective John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1976. It was also nominated...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Wilson Tucker

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Wilson Tucker

Fourth Mansions

Fourth Mansions is a novel by American author R. A. Lafferty, first published in 1969. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1970. Fourth Mansions was inspired by Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle, and contains quotations from the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: R. A. Lafferty

And Chaos Died

And Chaos Died (1970) is a science fiction novel by Joanna Russ, perhaps the genre's best-known feminist author. Its setting is a dystopian projection of modern society, in which Earth's population has continued to grow, with the effects somewhat...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Joanna Russ

The Steel Crocodile

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: David G. Compton

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot revolves around a character whose dreams alter reality. The story was first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The novel received...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

A Time of Changes

A Time of Changes is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg. It won the Nebula Award for that year, and was also nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards for in 1972. The novel is set in a culture where the first person singular is...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Half Past Human

Half Past Human, by T. J. Bass (real name Thomas J. Bassler, M.D., a pathologist) is a fixup science fiction novel published in 1971. Two short stories were combined and fleshed out to form this novel: "Half Past Human", first published in Galaxy...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: T. J. Bass

The Byworlder

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Poul Anderson

Margaret and I

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kate Wilhelm

The Devil is Dead

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: R. A. Lafferty

The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. The book is divided into three main parts, originally published in magazine form...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Isaac Asimov

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Isaac Asimov

When HARLIE Was One

When HARLIE Was One is a 1972 science fiction novel by David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. The novel is a "fix-up" of previously published short stories by Gerrold. A...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: David Gerrold

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: David Gerrold

The Book of Skulls

The Book of Skulls is a fantasy novel by Robert Silverberg, which was first published in 1972. It was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1972, and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1973. The story concerns four students who discover a manuscript, The...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Dying Inside

Dying Inside is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg. It was nominated for both the Nebula Award in 1972, and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1973. The novel's main character, David Selig, is an undistinguished man living in New York City....

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

The Iron Dream

The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad. The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional science fiction action tale entitled Lord of the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Norman Spinrad

The Sheep Look Up

The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972. The novel's setting is decidedly dystopian, the book dealing with the deterioration of the environment in the United States. It was nominated for...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

What Entropy Means to Me

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1972

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: George Alec Effinger

Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972. Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a fifty-kilometer-long cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system. The story is told from the point of view of...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Arthur C. Clarke

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Arthur C. Clarke

Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974. The book focuses on the adventures and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

The Man Who Folded Himself

The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by David Gerrold that deals with time travel. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974. Daniel Eakins inherits a belt that...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: David Gerrold

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: David Gerrold

The People of the Wind

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Poul Anderson

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Poul Anderson

The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). The book won the Nebula Award in 1974, both the Hugo and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

x Year:: 1975

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick about a genetically enhanced pop singer and television star who loses his identity overnight. The story is set in a futuristic dystopia, where America has become a...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Philip K. Dick

x Year:: 1975

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Philip K. Dick

Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Pynchon

x Year:: 1973

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Pynchon

334

334 is a science fiction novel by American author Thomas M. Disch, written in 1972. It is a gritty, subtly dystopian look at everyday life in New York City around the year 2025. Most of the novel's characters live in a huge housing project at 334...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1974

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Thomas M. Disch

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