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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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| 1973 | Gene Wolfe |
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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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The Death of Doctor Island | ||
| 1971 | Jerzy Kosiński |
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Jerzy Kosiński (June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was an award-winning Polish-American novelist, best known for the novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), the latter of which was adapted into a film in 1979.
Kosiński was born Józef...
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Being There | ||
| 1999 | Andy Duncan |
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Andy Duncan (21 September 1964) is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern themes. He was born in Batesburg, South Carolina in 1964. He graduated from high school from W. W. Wyman King...
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The Executioners' Guild | ||
| 1998 | Eliot Fintushel | Izzy and the Father of Terror | ||||
| 1983 | Michael Bishop |
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Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy...
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The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis | ||
| 1995 | Nicola Griffith |
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Nicola Griffith (born 30 September, 1960 in Yorkshire, England) is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alum of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award,...
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Yaguara | ||
| 2002 | Charles Coleman Finlay |
Charles Coleman Finlay is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
He grew up in Ohio and attended Ohio State University. He also attended University of Oxford. His first story, Footnotes, was published in 2001 in Fantasy and Science Fiction....
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The Political Officer | |||
| 1965 | Roger Zelazny |
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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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He Who Shapes | ||
| 2000 | John Kessel |
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John Kessel (b. 24 September 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story author with several longer works to his credit. He won a Nebula Award in 1982 for his novella "Another Orphan,...
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Ninety Percent of Everything | ||
| Jonathan Lethem |
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Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American writer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lethem trained to be an artist before moving to California and devoting his time to writing. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work...
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| James Patrick Kelly |
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James Patrick Kelly (born 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the SF field.
Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a...
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| 1985 | 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...
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The Only Neat Thing to Do | |||
| 1994 | Michael Swanwick |
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Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.
His published novels are: In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a...
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Cold Iron | ||
| 2000 | Andy Duncan |
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Andy Duncan (21 September 1964) is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern themes. He was born in Batesburg, South Carolina in 1964. He graduated from high school from W. W. Wyman King...
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Fortitude | ||
| 1982 | Joanna Russ |
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937) is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian...
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Souls | |||
| 1979 | Hilbert Schenck |
Hilbert van Nydeck Schenck, Jr. (born 1926) is a science fiction writer and engineer.
Several of his short fiction works have been nominated for Hugos and Nebulas. He has also written several textbooks on engineering.
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The Battle of the Abaco Reefs | |||
| 1986 | Robert Silverberg |
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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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Gilgamesh in the Outback | ||
| 1983 | Robert Silverberg |
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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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Homefaring | ||
| 1969 | Robert Silverberg |
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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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To Jorslem | ||
| 1997 | Adam-Troy Castro |
Adam-Troy Castro is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer living in Florida. He has more than eighty stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker.
Adam-Troy wrote four Spider-Man...
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The Funeral March of the Marionettes | |||
| 1996 | Jack Dann |
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Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor...
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Da Vinci Rising | ||
| 1965 | Brian Aldiss |
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Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (born 18 August 1925) is an 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...
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The Saliva Tree | ||
| 2002 | Andy Duncan |
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Andy Duncan (21 September 1964) is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern themes. He was born in Batesburg, South Carolina in 1964. He graduated from high school from W. W. Wyman King...
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The Chief Designer | ||
| 1995 | Elizabeth Hand |
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Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.
Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for...
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Last Summer at Mars Hill | ||
| 1992 | James Morrow |
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James Morrow (born 1947) is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism.
He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son,...
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City of Truth | ||
| 1981 | Gregory Benford |
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Gregory Benford (born 30 January 1941 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
As a science fiction author,...
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Swarmer, Skimmer | ||
| 2001 | Lucius Shepard |
Lucius Shepard (born August 21, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical...
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Radiant Green Star | |||
| 1996 | Jack McDevitt |
Jack McDevitt (born 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.
McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in The...
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Time Travelers Never Die | |||
| 1990 | James Patrick Kelly |
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James Patrick Kelly (born 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the SF field.
Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a...
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Mr. Boy | ||
| 1970 | James Blish |
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James Benjamin Blish (23 May 1921 – 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.
Blish was born at East Orange, New Jersey. In...
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A Style in Treason | ||
| 1998 | Geoffrey A. Landis |
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Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist at NASA's John Glenn Research Center and also an award-winning writer of scientifically accurate and detailed hard science fiction.
Landis holds undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT...
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Ecopoiesis | ||
| 1979 | Barry B. Longyear |
Barry B. Longyear born 1942 is a US writer and novelist who resides in Maine.
He is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella "Enemy Mine", which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie and a novelization in...
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Enemy Mine | |||
| 1985 | Kim Stanley Robinson |
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Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of...
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Green Mars | ||
| 1988 | Lucius Shepard |
Lucius Shepard (born August 21, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical...
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The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter | |||
| 1973 | Gardner Dozois |
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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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Chains of the Sea | ||
| 1982 | Fritz Leiber |
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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 sounds like "lie") was born Dec 24, 1910...
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Horrible Imaginings | ||
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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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A Woman's Liberation | ||
| 1970 | Poul Anderson |
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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University...
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The Fatal Fulfillment | ||
| 1975 | William K. Carlson | Sunrise West | ||||
| 1990 | Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times,...
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Weatherman | ||
| 1998 | 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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Jumping Off the Planet | |||
| 2007 | Matt Hughes | The Helper and His Hero | ||||
| 1967 | Theodore Sturgeon |
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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...
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If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? | ||
| 2007 | Bruce Sterling |
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Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker,...
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Kiosk | ||
| 1985 | Robert Silverberg |
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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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Sailing to Byzantium | ||
| 1994 | Harlan Ellison |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal 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 only...
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Mefisto In Onyx | ||
| 1976 | 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...
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Houston, Houston, Do You Read? | |||
| 1976 | 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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Piper at the Gates of Dawn | |||
| 1966 | 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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The Alchemist | |||
| 1969 | Harlan Ellison |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal 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 only...
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A Boy and His Dog | ||
| 1972 | Gene Wolfe |
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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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The Fifth Head of Cerberus | ||
| 1980 | 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 the New Dimensions science fiction anthology series, and Nebula Awards 19.
She...
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Dangerous Games | |||
| 1970 | Fritz Leiber |
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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 sounds like "lie") was born Dec 24, 1910...
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Ill Met in Lankhmar | ||
| 1991 | Mike Resnick |
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Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942), better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is an American science fiction author. He is executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe.
Resnick attended the University of Chicago from 1959...
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Bully! | ||
| 1970 | Harlan Ellison |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal 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 only...
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The Region Between | ||
| 1997 | Bud Sparhawk |
John C. "Bud" Sparhawk (born 1937) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for the strong scientific basis for his work, and also his humorous science fiction, in particular his Sam Boone series of short fiction.
Bud Sparhawk was...
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Primrose and Thorn | |||
| 1993 | Walter Jon Williams |
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Walter Jon Williams (born 15 October 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.
Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired (also an homage to Roger Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley) and Voice...
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Wall, Stone, Craft | ||
| 1984 | Frederik Pohl |
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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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The Greening of Bed-Stuy | ||
| 1978 | John Varley |
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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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The Persistence of Vision | ||
| 2005 | Kelly Link |
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Kelly Link (born 1969 in Miami, Florida) is an American editor and author of short stories . While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination...
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Magic for Beginners | ||
| 1970 | 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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The Thing in the Stone | |||
| 2003 | Ian R. MacLeod |
Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956) is a British science fiction and fantasy writer.
He was born in Solihull near Birmingham. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990s soon after he started publishing stories,...
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Breathmoss | |||
