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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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The Dream Master
The Dream Master (1966), originally published as a novella titled He Who Shapes, is a science-fiction novel by Roger Zelazny. The novella won a Nebula Award in 1965.
The Dream Master is set in a future where the forces of overpopulation and...
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The Saliva Tree
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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...
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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Dragonflight
Dragonflight is the first book in the long-running Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.
The first segment of Dragonflight was a 1966 Hugo award–winning novella (called Weyr Search) prior to publication of the entire book.
The second...
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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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The Missing Man
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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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Born with the Dead
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A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a short story written by science fiction author Harlan Ellison in 1969. A revised and expanded version was printed in Ellison's 1976 story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, and Ellison continued...
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...
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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Unicorn Tapestry
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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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Another Orphan
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Hardfought
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Press ENTER
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Sailing to Byzantium
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R&R
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The Blind Geometer
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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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Beggars in Spain
Beggars in Spain is a 1993 science fiction novel by Nancy Kress.
It was originally published as a novella in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and as a limited edition paperback by Axolotl Press in 1991. Kress expanded it, adding three new...
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City of Truth
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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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Da Vinci Rising
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Abandon in Place
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Reading the Bones
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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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Goddesses
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Bronte's Egg
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Coraline
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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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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Magic for Beginners
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Burn
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Fountain of Age
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