Nebula Awards

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An award given by SFWA since 1965. (Unlike the Hugo Awards, the year of the award is for the year prior to the year the award is actually given.)

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

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

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

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

Game Writing

Year	Author	Work
2018	Charlie Brooker	Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

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 2005, and the Nebula for Best Game Writing was introduced in 2018.

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

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