Nebula Awards

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An award given by SFWA since 1966. (Unlike the Hugo Awards, the date of the award is for the year the work was published, not the year the award is given.) The awards are nominated and voted on by members of the association.

The Nebula for Best Game Writing was introduced in 2019. There was a Best Script award given in 1974–1978 and 2000–2007 which was changed to the Ray Bradbury Award For Outstanding Dramatic Presentation in 2008. The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy has been presented since 2006.

Other awards presented at the ceremony during the Nebula Award Weekend include the SFWA Grand Master Award, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, and the Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service To SFWA Award.

Some of the winning fiction is printed in a series of books called Nebula Awards Winners.

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Novel

Year	Author	Work
1965	Frank Herbert	Dune
1966 tie	Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon
1966 tie	Samuel R. Delany	Babel-17
1967	Samuel R. Delany	The Einstein Intersection
1968	Alexei Panshin	Rite of Passage
1969	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness
1970	Larry Niven	Ringworld
1971	Robert Silverberg	A Time of Changes
1972	Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves
1973	Arthur C. Clarke	Rendezvous with Rama
1974	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Dispossessed
1975	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War
1976	Frederik Pohl	Man Plus
1977	Frederik Pohl	Gateway
1978	Vonda N. McIntyre	Dreamsnake
1979	Arthur C. Clarke	The Fountains of Paradise
1980	Gregory Benford	Timescape
1981	Gene Wolfe	The Claw of the Conciliator
1982	Michael Bishop	No Enemy But Time
1983	David Brin	Startide Rising
1984	William Gibson	Neuromancer
1985	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game
1986	Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead
1987	Pat Murphy	The Falling Woman
1988	Lois McMaster Bujold	Falling Free
1989	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough	The Healer's War
1990	Ursula K. Le Guin	Tehanu, The Last Book of Earthsea
1991	Michael Swanwick	Stations of the Tide
1992	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book
1993	Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars
1994	Greg Bear	Moving Mars
1995	Robert J. Sawyer	The Terminal Experiment
1996	Nicola Griffith	Slow River
1997	Vonda N. McIntyre	The Moon and the Sun
1998	Joe Haldeman	Forever Peace
1999	Octavia E. Butler	Parable of the Talents
2000	Greg Bear	Darwin's Radio
2001	Catherine Asaro	The Quantum Rose
2002	Neil Gaiman	American Gods
2003	Elizabeth Moon	Speed of Dark
2004	Lois McMaster Bujold	Paladin of Souls
2005	Joe Haldeman	Camouflage
2006	Jack McDevitt	Seeker
2007	Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2008	Ursula K. Le Guin	Powers
2009	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Windup Girl
2010	Connie Willis	Blackout and All Clear
2011	Jo Walton	Among Others
2012	Kim Stanley Robinson	2312
2013	Ann Leckie	Ancillary Justice
2014	Jeff VanderMeer	Annihilation
2015	Naomi Novik	Uprooted
2016	Charlie Jane Anders	All the Birds in the Sky
2017	N. K. Jemisin	The Stone Sky
2018	Mary Robinette Kowal	The Calculating Stars
2019	Sarah Pinsker	A Song for a New Day

Novella

Year	Author	Work
1965 tie	Brian W. Aldiss	The Saliva Tree
1965 tie	Roger Zelazny	He Who Shapes
1966	Jack Vance	The Last Castle
1967	Michael Moorcock	Behold the Man
1968	Anne McCaffrey	Dragonrider
1969	Harlan Ellison	A Boy and His Dog
1970	Fritz Leiber	Ill Met in Lankhmar
1971	Katherine MacLean	The Missing Man
1972	Arthur C. Clarke	A Meeting with Medusa
1973	Gene Wolfe	The Death of Dr. Island
1974	Robert Silverberg	Born with the Dead
1975	Roger Zelazny	Home is the Hangman
1976	James Tiptree, Jr.	Houston
1977	Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson	Stardance
1978	John Varley	The Persistence of Vision
1979	Barry B. Longyear	Enemy Mine
1980	Suzy McKee Charnas	Unicorn Tapestry
1981	Poul Anderson	The Saturn Game
1982	John Kessel	Another Orphan
1983	Greg Bear	Hardfought
1984	John Varley	PRESS ENTER _
1985	Robert Silverberg	Sailing to Byzantium
1986	Lucius Shepard	R&R
1987	Kim Stanley Robinson	The Blind Geometer
1988	Connie Willis	The Last of the Winnebagos
1989	Lois McMaster Bujold	The Mountains of Mourning
1990	Joe Haldeman	The Hemingway Hoax
1991	Nancy Kress	Beggars in Spain
1992	James Morrow	City of Truth
1993	Jack Cady	The Night We Buried Road Dog
1994	Mike Resnick	Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
1995	Elizabeth Hand	Last Summer at Mars Hill
1996	Jack Dann	Da Vinci Rising
1997	Jerry Oltion	Abandon in Place
1998	Sheila Finch	Reading the Bones
1999	Ted Chiang	Story of Your Life
2000	Linda Nagata	Goddesses
2001	Jack Williamson	The Ultimate Earth
2002	Richard Chwedyk	Bronte's Egg
2003	Neil Gaiman	Coraline
2004	Walter Jon Williams	The Green Leopard Plague
2005	Kelly Link	Magic for Beginners
2006	James Patrick Kelly	Burn
2007	Nancy Kress	Fountain of Age
2008	Catherine Asaro	The Spacetime Pool
2009	Kage Baker	The Women of Nell Gwynne's
2010	Rachel Swirsky	The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window
2011	Kij Johnson	The Man who Bridged the Mist
2012	Nancy Kress	After the Fall
2013	Vylar Kaftan	The Weight of the Sunrise
2014	Nancy Kress	Yesterday's Kin
2015	Nnedi Okorafor	Binti
2016	Seanan McGuire	Every Heart a Doorway
2017	Martha Wells	All Systems Red
2018	Aliette de Bodard	The Tea Master and the Detective
2019	Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone	This Is How You Lose the Time War

Novelette

Year	Author	Work
1965	Roger Zelazny	The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
1966	Gordon R. Dickson	Call Him Lord
1967	Fritz Leiber	Gonna Roll the Bones
1968	Richard Wilson	Mother to the World
1969	Samuel R. Delany	Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
1970	Theodore Sturgeon	Slow Sculpture
1971	Poul Anderson	The Queen of Air and Darkness
1972	Poul Anderson	Goat Song
1973	Vonda McIntyre	Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
1974	Gregory Benford, Gordon Eklund	If the Stars are Gods
1975	Tom Reamy	San Diego Lightfoot Sue
1976	Isaac Asimov	The Bicentennial Man
1977	Raccoona Sheldon	The Screwfly Solution
1978	Charles L. Grant	A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn's Eye
1979	George R. R. Martin	Sandkings
1980	Howard Waldrop	The Ugly Chickens
1981	Michael Bishop	The Quickening
1982	Connie Willis	Fire Watch
1983	Greg Bear	Blood Music
1984	Octavia E. Butler	Bloodchild
1985	George R. R. Martin	Portraits of his Children
1986	Kate Wilhelm	The Girl who Fell into the Sky
1987	Pat Murphy	Rachel in Love
1988	George Alec Effinger	Schrödinger's Kitten
1989	Connie Willis	At the Rialto
1990	Ted Chiang	Tower of Babylon
1991	Mike Conner	Guide Dog
1992	Pamela Sargent	Danny Goes To Mars
1993	Charles Sheffield	Georgia on my Mind
1994	David Gerrold	The Martian Child
1995	Ursula K. Le Guin	Solitude
1996	Bruce Holland	Lifeboat on a Burning Sea
1997	Nancy Kress	The Flowers of Aulit Prison
1998	Jane Yolen	Lost Girls
1999	Mary Turzillo	Mars is No Place for Children
2000	Walter Jon Williams	Daddy's World
2001	Kelly Link	Louise's Ghost
2002	Ted Chiang	Hell is the Absence of God
2003	Jeffrey Ford	The Empire of Ice Cream
2004	Ellen Klages	Basement Magic
2005	Kelly Link	The Faery Handbag
2006	Peter S. Beagle	Two Hearts
2007	Ted Chiang	The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
2008	John Kessel	Pride and Prometheus
2009	Eugie Foster	Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
2010	Eric James Stone	That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made
2011	Geoff Ryman	What We Found
2012	Andy Duncan	Close Encounters
2013	Aliette de Bodard	The Waiting Stars
2014	Alaya Dawn Johnson	A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i
2015	Sarah Pinsker	Our Lady of the Open Road
2016	William Ledbetter	The Long Fall Up
2017	Kelly Robson	A Human Stain
2018	Brooke Bolander	The Only Harmless Great Thing
2019	Cat Rambo	Carpe Glitter

Short Story

Year	Author	Work
1965	Harlan Ellison	“'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman”
1966	Richard Mckenna	“The Secret Place”
1967	Samuel R. Delany	“Aye, and Gomorrah ...”
1968	Kate Wilhelm	“The Planners”
1969	Robert Silverberg	“Passengers”
1970	no award
1971	Robert Silverberg	“Good News from the Vatican”
1972	Joanna Russ	“When it Changed”
1973	James Tiptree, Jr.	“Love is the Plan the Plan is Death”
1974	Ursula K. Le Guin	“The Day Before the Revolution”
1975	Fritz Leiber	Catch that Zeppelin!
1976	Charles L. Grant	“A Crowd of Shadows”
1977	Harlan Ellison	“Jeffty is Five”
1978	Edward Bryant	“Stone”
1979	Edward Bryant	“giANTS”
1980	Clifford D. Simak	“Grotto of the Dancing Deer”
1981	Lisa Tuttle	“The Bone Flute”
1982	Connie Willis	“A Letter from the Clearys”
1983	Gardner Dozois	“The Peacemaker”
1984	Gardner Dozois	“Morning Child”
1985	Nancy Kress	“Out of All Them Bright Stars”
1986	Greg Bear	“Tangents”
1987	Kate Wilhelm	“Forever Yours”
1988	James Morrow	“Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17”
1990	Terry Bisson	“Bears Discover Fire”
1991	Alan Brennert	“Ma Qui”
1992	Connie Willis	“Even the Queen”
1993	Joe Haldeman	“Graves”
1994	Martha Soukup	“A Defense of the Social Contracts”
1995	Esther M. Friesner	“Death and the Librarian”
1996	Esther M. Friesner	“A Birthday”
1997	Jane Yolen	“Sister Emily's Lightship”
1998	Bruce Holland	“Thirteen Ways to Water”
1999	Leslie What	“The Cost of Doing Business”
2000	Terry Bisson	“macs”
2001	Severna Park	“The Cure for Everything”
2002	Carol Emshwiller	“Creature”
2003	Karen Joy Fowler	What I Didn't See
2004	Eileen Gunn	Coming to Terms
2005	Carol Emshwiller	“I Live with You”
2006	Elizabeth Hand	“Echo”
2007	Karen Joy Fowler	“Always”
2008	Nina Kiriki Hoffman	“Trophy Wives”
2009	Kij Johnson	“Spar”
2010 tie	Kij Johnson	“Ponies”
2010 tie	Harlan Ellison	“How Interesting, A Tiny Man”
2011	Ken Liu	“The Paper Menagerie”
2012	Aliette de Bodard	“Immersion”
2013	Rachel Swirsky	“If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”
2014	Ursula Vernon	“Jackalope Wives”
2015	Alyssa Wong	“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”
2016	Amal El-Mohtar	“Seasons of Glass and Iron”
2017	Rebecca Roanhorse	“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience”
2018	Phenderson Djèlí Clark	“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”
2019	A. T. Greenblatt	“Give the Family My Love”

Game Writing

Year	Author	Work
2018	Charlie Brooker	Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2019	Leonard Boyarsky, Kate Dollarhyde, Paul Kirsch, Chris L’Etoile, Daniel McPhee, Carrie Patel, Nitai Poddar, Marc Soskin and Megan Starks	The Outer Worlds

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

The Ray Bradbury Award (full name "Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation") is presented by the SFWA to recognize excellence in screen writing. Originally presented in 1992 and given for specific work, the award was not presented annually and was dormant from 2001 through 2008, when it was presented for a body of work rather than an individual work.

Starting with the 2009 award, the Nebula Award for Best Script was eliminated and the Bradbury Award given in its place. While no longer a Nebula, the award is presented at the Nebula Awards Ceremony and follows Nebula rules and procedures. (Unlike the Hugo Awards, as with the Nebula Awards, the year of the award is for the year prior to the year the award is actually given.)

In 2019, it was announced that the Ray Bradbury Award For Outstanding Dramatic Presentation is officially a Nebula Award.

Year	Winner
1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day written and directed by James Cameron
1998	Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski
2000	2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia by Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison
2007	Joss Whedon
Renamed the Ray Bradbury Award For Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
2008	District 9 written and directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Terri Tatchell
2009	Inception written and directed by Christopher Nolan
2010	Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Richard Clark
2011	Beasts of the Southern Wild written and directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Lucy Alibar
2012	Gravity written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and written by Jonás Cuarón
2013	Guardians of the Galaxy written and directed by James Gunn and written by Nicole Perlman
2014	Mad Max: Fury Road written and directed by George Miller and written by Brendan McCarthy and Niko Lathouris
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nick Lathouris, directed by George Miller
2016	Arrival written by Eric Heisserer, directed by Denis Villeneuve
2017	Get Out written by Jordan Peele, directed by Jordan Peele
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse written by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
2019	Good Omens: “Hard Times” written by Neil Gaiman

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

In 2019, it was announced that the Andre Norton Award is officially a Nebula Award.

Year	Author	Work
2005	Holly Black	Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
2006	Justine Larbalestier	Magic or Madness
2007	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2008	Ysabeau S. Wilce	Flora's Dare
2009	Catherynne M. Valente	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2010	Terry Pratchett	I Shall Wear Midnight
2011	Delia Sherman	The Freedom Maze
2012	E. C. Myers	Fair Coin
2013	Nalo Hopkinson	Sister Mine
2014	Alaya Dawn Johnson	Love Is the Drug
2015	Fran Wilde	Updraft
2016	David D. Levine	Arabella of Mars
2017	Sam J. Miller	The Art of Starving
2018	Tomi Adeyemi	Children of Blood and Bone
2019	Fran Wilde	Riverland

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