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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.
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Fritz Leiber
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer.
Leiber (first syllable rhymes with "shy") was born Dec 24, 1910...
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Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was a Hugo and Nebula nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist...
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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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Fred Saberhagen
Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930–June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction stories.
He also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the vampires (including...
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Mack Reynolds
Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds (November 11, 1917 - January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in...
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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William Tenn
William Tenn is the pseudonym used by Philip Klass on his science fiction, notable for many stories with satirical elements.
Born May 9, 1920, in London, England, he moved to New York with his parents before his second birthday and grew up in...
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James H. Schmitz
James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. Aside from two years at business school in Chicago, Schmitz lived in Germany until 1938, leaving before World War II broke out...
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson (1920 - 1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was married at one time to Leslie Perri.
His books included the novels The Girls from Planet 5 (1955); 30-Day...
Joseph L Green
Joseph L Green (born 1931) is an American science fiction author and a charter member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is a prolific short story author best known for his novel Gold the Man. His work has been translated into German,...
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Jonathan Brand
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E. Clayton McCarty
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J. W. Schutz
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R. C. Fitzpatrick
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Norman L. Knight
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Gordon R. Dickson
Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight...
Charles L. Harness
Charles Leonard Harness (December 29, 1915 - September 20, 2005) was an American science fiction writer. He was born in Colorado City, Texas and grew up just outside it, then later in Fort Worth. He earned degrees in chemistry and law, and worked as...
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Robert M. Green, Jr.
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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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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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James Gunn
James Edwin Gunn (born 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American Science Fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work from the 1960s and 70s is considered his most significant fiction, and his Road to Science Fiction collections...
H. H. Hollis
H. H. Hollis was a pseudonym of Ben Neal Ramey (1921 - 1977), who was an American science fiction writer. Ramey's "day-job" was as a lawyer in Texas; he wrote science fiction for fun. Two of his stories, "The Guerrilla Trees" (1968) and "Sword Game"...
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Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; 26 February 1918 — 8 May 1985) was an American science fiction author.
He was known to use a technique known as "rhythmic prose", in which his prose text would drop into a standard poetic meter. This...
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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Gerald Jonas
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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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Edgar Pangborn
Edgar Pangborn (February 25, 1909 – February 1, 1976) was an American mystery, historical, and science fiction author.
Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City on February 25, 1909, to Harry Levi Pangborn, an attorney and dictionary editor, and...
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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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William Rotsler
William "Bill" Rotsler (July 3, 1926 - October 8, 1997) was an American author of several science fiction novels and short stories; television and film novelizations; and a number of non-fiction works on a variety of topics, ranging from Star Trek...
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an Jewish American writer. His principle genre is science fiction.
His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not...
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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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Charles L. Grant
Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey-September 15, 2006) was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel...
Gordon Eklund
Gordon Eklund (born July 24, 1945, Seattle, Washington) is a Nebula Award-winning, American science fiction author whose works include the "Lord Tedric" series and two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s Star Trek TV series. He has...
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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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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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Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 - December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in...
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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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Craig Strete
Craig Strete (born 1950) is a science fiction and children's book author. He is noted for his use of American Indian themes and has been nominated for the Nebula Award twice. He is also known for a controversy involving writer Ron Montana.
Craig...
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Howard Waldrop
Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946, in Houston, Mississippi) is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.
Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old...
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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Steven Utley
Steven Utley (born 1948) is an American writer. He has written poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.
Utley was born in the family of an Air Force non...
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Grant Carrington
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Carter Scholz
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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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Dean Ing
Dean Ing (born 1931) is an American author, who usually writes in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres.
Dean Charles Ing was formerly a member of the United States Air Force, an aerospace engineer, and a university professor who holds a...
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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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Michael Shea
Michael Shea (born 1943) is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author living in California. He is a multiple winner of the World Fantasy Award and his works include Nifft the Lean (1982) (winner of the World Fantasy Award) and The...
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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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James Tiptree, Jr
James Tiptree, Jr. (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death. She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (1974–77). Tiptree/Sheldon...
Parke Godwin
Parke Godwin (28 January 1929 - ) is an American writer known for his lyrical yet precise prose style and sardonic humor. He is also known for his novels of legendary figures placed in realistic historical settings; his retelling of the Arthur...
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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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Edward Bryant
Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (born August 27, 1945) is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave.
Bryant was born in White Plains, New York. However, he was...
George Guthridge
George Guthridge (born 1948) has published over 70 short stories and five novels, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award and twice for the Nebula Award, for science fiction and fantasy. In 1998 he and coauthor, Janet Berliner, won the Bram...
