Nebula Award for Best Novella: Nominees

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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. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.

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Coraline is a fantasy/horror novel by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for...

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Riders of the Purple Wage

Riders of the Purple Wage is a science fiction novella by Philip José Farmer. It appeared in Dangerous Visions, the famous New Wave science fiction anthology compiled by Harlan Ellison, in 1967, and won the Hugo Award for best novella in 1968,...

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True Names

True Names was the science fiction novella which brought Vernor Vinge to prominence in 1981. It was one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories in the cyberpunk genre....

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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" is a novella by James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon). It won a Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1976 and a Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1977. The novella first appeared in the anthology Aurora: Beyond...

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The Green Leopard Plague

The Green Leopard Plague is a 2004 novella by Walter Jon Williams that won the Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Hugo Award. It is based on the idea of a genetically engineered virus that allows people to photosynthesize food, leading the...

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Enemy Mine

"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by Barry B. Longyear. It first appeared in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, later collected by Longyear in Manifest Destiny (1980). In 1980 it won the Hugo Award for Best...

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Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is a 1994 novella by science fiction author Mike Resnick. It won the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella. The story concerns an archaeological expedition sent to Earth after...

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The Cookie Monster

The Cookie Monster is a short story/novella by Vernor Vinge. It was first published in the October 2003 issue of Dell Magazines' anthology publication Analog, and has subsequently been collected in several science fiction anthology collections. It...

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Behold the Man

Behold the Man (1969) is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock. It originally appeared as a novella in a 1966 issue of New Worlds; later, Moorcock produced an expanded version which was first published in 1969 by Allison & Busby.. In the novel...

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Mr. Boy

"Mr. Boy" (1990) is a science fiction novella written by James Patrick Kelly. Originally published in the June 1990 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, it was subsequently reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991,...

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Story of Your Life

Story of Your Life is a science fiction short story by Ted Chiang. It was the winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novella as well as the 1999 Sturgeon award. The major themes explored by this tale are determinism, language and an interesting...

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The Hemingway Hoax

The Hemingway Hoax is a short novel by science fiction writer Joe Haldeman. It weaves together a story of an attempt to produce a fake Ernest Hemingway manuscript with themes concerning time travel and parallel worlds. A shorter version of the book...

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Ill Met in Lankhmar

Ill Met in Lankhmar is a sword and sorcery novella by Fritz Leiber, recounting the meeting and teaming-up of his adventurous duo, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. First published in 1970 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, it is the nature of...

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If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

"If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" is a science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon. It first appeared in Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions in 1967. It is about an Earthman who comes to the planet...

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Great Work of Time

Great Work of Time is a novella by John Crowley. A science fiction story involving time travel, it concerns a secret society created by the will of Cecil Rhodes to preserve and expand the British Empire. Originally published in Crowley's 1989...

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A Meeting with Medusa

A Meeting with Medusa is a science fiction novella by Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1971 and has since been included in several collections of Clarke's writings. Taking place partly on Earth and partly in the atmosphere of Jupiter...

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Ninety Percent of Everything

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Seven American Nights

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Memorare

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Inclination

"Inclination" is a science fiction novella by William Shunn. It appeared in the April/May 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2007. The story concerns a young stevedore named Jude who lives...

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The Death of Doctor Island

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Nightwings

Nightwings is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1969 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1968. Nightwings is the first in a trilogy of novellas, the next two being Perris Way (1968)...

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The Saturn Game

"The Saturn Game" is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1982 and the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1981. Imaginative roleplaying provides relief for some of the crew on the long, dull trip to...

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Gilgamesh in the Outback

Gilgamesh in the Outback is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1986. The afterlife is both better and worse than many expected. Everyone lives...

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The Last Castle

"The Last Castle" is a science fiction novelette by Jack Vance. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1967 and the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1966. The author expanded this story into a novel of the same name published in 1973. Humanity...