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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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| 2008 | Catherine Asaro |
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Catherine Asaro is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty set in the Skolian Empire, known as the Saga of the Skolian Empire.
Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California. She has a...
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The Spacetime Pool | ||
| 2007 | Nancy Kress |
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Nancy Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded...
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Fountain of Age | ||
| 2006 | 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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Burn | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2004 | 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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The Green Leopard Plague | ||
| 2003 | Neil Gaiman |
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Neil Richard Gaiman (pronounced /ˈɡeɪmən/) (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include The Sandman graphic novel...
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Coraline | ||
| 2002 | Richard Chwedyk |
Richard Chwedyk (born 1955) is a science fiction author. In 2003, he won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novella for his story "Brontë's Egg."
Chwedyk's first published story was "Getting Along with Larga," which was the first winner of the ISFiC...
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Bronte's Egg | |||
| 2001 | Jack Williamson |
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John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert...
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The Ultimate Earth | ||
| 2000 | Linda Nagata |
Linda Nagata (1960-) is an American science fiction author who won the Nebula award for best novella in 2000 (for "Goddesses"). She frequently writes about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
Nagata was...
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Goddesses | |||
| 1999 | Ted Chiang |
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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and...
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Story of Your Life | ||
| 1998 | Sheila Finch |
Sheila Finch (born 1935) is a science fiction author. She has won the Nebula Award for her 1998 novella “Reading the Bones,” which was later expanded into a novel. She was born in London, and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Reading the Bones | |||
| 1997 | Jerry Oltion |
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Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is an award-winning science fiction author, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the Star Trek series.
He is also the inventor of the trackball telescope, a new system for making a telescope that...
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Abandon in Place | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1994 | 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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Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge | ||
| 1993 | Jack Cady |
Jack Cady (1933 - January 14, 2004) was an American author. He is most known as an award winning fantasist and horror writer. In his career he won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.
Cady was a conscientious...
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The Night We Buried Road Dog | |||
| 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 | ||
| 1991 | Nancy Kress |
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Nancy Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded...
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Beggars in Spain | ||
| 1990 | Joe Haldeman |
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Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.
Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a...
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The Hemingway Hoax | ||
| 1989 | 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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The Mountains of Mourning | ||
| 1988 | Connie Willis |
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an American science fiction writer.
She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008)....
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The Last of the Winnebagos | ||
| 1987 | 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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The Blind Geometer | ||
| 1986 | 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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R&R | |||
| 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 | ||
| 1984 | 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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PRESS ENTER■ | ||
| 1983 | Greg Bear |
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Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen...
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Hardfought | ||
| 1982 | 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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Another Orphan | ||
| 1981 | 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 Saturn Game | ||
| 1980 | Suzy McKee Charnas |
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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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Unicorn Tapestry | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| 1977 | Jeanne Robinson | Stardance | ||||
| Spider Robinson |
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.
Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by...
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| 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? | |||
| 1975 | 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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Home Is the Hangman | ||
| 1974 | 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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Born with the Dead | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1972 | Arthur C. Clarke |
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Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley...
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A Meeting with Medusa | ||
| 1971 | Katherine MacLean |
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Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short stories of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society.
Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do...
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The Missing Man | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1968 | Anne McCaffrey |
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Anne Inez McCaffrey (born 1 April 1926) is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Born in the United States, she is long-term resident of Ireland.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge,...
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Dragonflight | ||
| 1967 | Michael Moorcock |
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Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple...
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Behold the Man | ||
| 1966 | Jack Vance |
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John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3...
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The Last Castle | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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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The Dream Master | ||
