Nebula Award for Best Novelette: Nominees

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Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Winners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below. Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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The Bicentennial Man

The Bicentennial Man is a novella in the Robot Series by Isaac Asimov. The story formed the basis of the novel The Positronic Man (1993), co-written with Robert Silverberg, and the 1999 film Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams. The original...

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The Girl Who Was Plugged In

"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is a science fiction short story by James Tiptree, Jr, a pen name for psychologist Alice Sheldon. It won a Hugo Award in 1974. The story takes place in a future world, where almost everything is controlled by corporate...

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The Screwfly Solution

"The Screwfly Solution" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a pen name for psychologist Alice Sheldon, who was better known by her other nom de plume, James Tiptree, Jr. It received the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and has...

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Georgia On My Mind

"Georgia on My Mind" (1993) is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which won both the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award in 1994. The novelette involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer. The...

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The Martian Child

"The Martian Child" is a novelette by David Gerrold. It won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award and HOMer Award and the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and was nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon award for best short fiction....

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The Undiscovered

"The Undiscovered" is a story by William Sanders that won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. It concerns William Shakespeare living among the Cherokee and trying to produce a version of Hamlet for them. The author is part Cherokee with...

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Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites

"Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" is a science fiction novelette by William Shunn. It appeared in the original anthology Vanishing Acts, edited by Ellen Datlow and published by Tor Books in 2000. It was nominated for the 2001 Nebula Award for...

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Nine Lives

"Nine Lives" is a 1969 science fiction novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin. Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, the story is about what human cloning does to one's perception of the self, and among other things explores bisexual bonding between...

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Think Like a Dinosaur

"Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) is a science fiction novelette written by James Patrick Kelly. Originally published in the June 1995 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, it was subsequently featured in: The story won the 1996 Hugo Award for...

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The Deathbird

The Deathbird is a well-known novelette by Harlan Ellison. It won the 1974 Hugo and Locus Poll awards for best novelette. It is written in a style which allows for much examination; it is nonlinear but gradually forms a picture of the situation. It...

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The Winter Market

"The Winter Market" is a science fiction short story written by William Gibson, and published as part of his Burning Chrome short story collection. "The Winter Market" was commissioned by Vancouver Magazine with the stipulation that it be set in the...

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Gonna Roll the Bones

"Gonna Roll the Bones" is a short story by Fritz Leiber, in which Joe Slattermill plays craps with Death. First published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, it won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novelette. The story centers on Joe...

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Flatlander

"Flatlander" is an English language science fiction short story written in 1967 by Larry Niven. It is the third in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Worlds of If,...

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Flat Diane

Flat Diane is a novelette by Daniel Abraham which was nominated for the 2005 Nebula Award, and won the 2005 International Horror Guild Award. Inspired by The Flat Stanley Project, it tells the story of a father who helps his daughter create a paper...

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Sandkings

Sandkings is a novelette by George R. R. Martin, published in the August 1979 issue of Omni. It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the only one of Martin's stories to have done so. Simon Kress, a wealthy playboy, loves to collect dangerous, exotic...

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Two Hearts

Two Hearts is a novelette written by Peter S. Beagle in 2004 as a coda to The Last Unicorn (1968), despite his decades-long reluctance to continue the original story. It was first published as the cover story of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine...

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Paladin of the Lost Hour

"Paladin of the Lost Hour" is the second segment of the seventh episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. An old man standing at a grave, apparently grieving, is suddenly attacked by a couple of...

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The Happy Man

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The Way Station

"The Way Station" is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in April 1980. In 1982, "The Way Station" was collected with several other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and...

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Schrödinger's Kitten

"Schrödinger's Kitten" is a 1988 novelette by George Alec Effinger, which won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as the Japanese Seiun Award. It was later expanded into a novel, published in 1992 under the same name. The story utilizes a...

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The Fringe

"The Fringe" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection The Folk of the Fringe and in Future on Ice a short story collection edited by card. Card originally published this story in the October 1985 issue of The...

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The Sharing of Flesh

"The Sharing of Flesh" is a science fiction novelette by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1969, and was nominated for a Nebula Award. After a galactic dark age, humanity sends and expedition to a primitive human planet,...

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Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight is a science fiction novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1988, and was nominated for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. A lost child tumbles into the...

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Permafrost

"Permafrost" is a science fiction novelette by Roger Zelazny. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1987, and was nominated for the Nebula Award. A strange confrontation between a frozen planet, a formerly-human program, and a has-been con-man....

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Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" is a science fiction short story by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1970, and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969. Relationships change and reverse as a thief...

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The Queen of Air and Darkness

"The Queen of Air and Darkness" is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella and the Locus Award for Best Short Story in 1972, and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1971. On the frontier colony world,...

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Goat Song

"Goat Song" is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. This story has strong parallels to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice In a future world humanity is dominated by a massive computer, SUM, which claims to record the soul, and promises a...

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The Nutcracker Coup

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Kirinyaga

"Kirinyaga" is a science fiction short story published in 1988 by Mike Resnick and is the first chapter in the book by the same name. The story was the winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 1989 SF Chronicle Award. It was also...

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The People of Sand and Slag

"The People of Sand and Slag" is a science fiction novelette published in 2004 by Paolo Bacigalupi. It was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 2005 Locus Poll. The story follows...

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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" is a fantasy novelette by Ted Chiang originally published in 2007 by Subterranean Press and reprinted in the September 2007 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and...