Nebula Award for Best Novelette - Definition

Winners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.

• 2003: "The Empire of Ice Cream" &nbsp by Jeffrey Ford
  • "The Mask of the Rex" &nbsp by Richard Bowes
  • "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs"
    &nbsp by Adam-Troy Castro
  • "0wnz0red" &nbsp by Cory Doctorow
  • "The Wages of Syntax" &nbsp by Ray Vukcevich

• 2002: "Hell is the Absence of God" &nbsp by Ted Chiang
  • "The Pagodas of Ciboure" &nbsp by M. Shayne Bell
  • "The Ferryman's Wife" &nbsp by Richard Bowes
  • "Madonna of the Maquiladora" &nbsp by Gregory Frost
  • "The Days Between" &nbsp by Allen Steele
  • "Lobsters" &nbsp by Charles Stross

• 2001: "Louise's Ghost" &nbsp by Kelly Link
  • "To Kiss the Star" &nbsp by Amy Sterling Casil
  • "The Pottawatomie Giant" &nbsp by Andy Duncan
  • "Undone" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "Auspicious Eggs" &nbsp by James Morrow
  • "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" &nbsp by William Shunn

• 2000: "Daddy's World" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams
  • "Stellar Harvest" &nbsp by Eleanor Arnason
  • "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" &nbsp by Gardner Dozois
  • "Jack Daw's Pack" &nbsp by Greer Ilene Gilman
  • "A Day's Work on the Moon" &nbsp by Mike Moscoe
  • "How the Highland People Came to Be" &nbsp by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "Generation Gap" &nbsp by Stanley Schmidt

• 1999: "Mars Is No Place for Children" &nbsp by Mary A. Turzillo
  • "The Island in the Lake" &nbsp by Phyllis Eisenstein
  • "How to Make Unicorn Pie" &nbsp by Esther M. Friesner
  • "Five Days in April" &nbsp by Brian A. Hopkins
  • "Good Intentions" &nbsp by Stanley Schmidt & Jack McDevitt
  • "Taklamakan" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling

• 1998: "Lost Girls" &nbsp by Jane Yolen
  • "The Truest Chill" &nbsp by Gregory Feeley
  • "Time Gypsy" &nbsp by Ellen Klages
  • "The Mercy Gate" &nbsp by Mark J. McGarry
  • "Echea" &nbsp by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • "Lethe" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams

• 1997: "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" &nbsp by Nancy Kress
  • "The Dog's Story" &nbsp by Eleanor Arnason
  • "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream"
    &nbsp by James Alan Gardner
  • "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." &nbsp by Bill Johnson
  • "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue" &nbsp by John Kessel
  • "The Copyright Notice Case" &nbsp by Paul Levinson
  • "The Undiscovered" &nbsp by William Sanders

• 1996: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" &nbsp by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "Erase/Record/Play" &nbsp by John M. Ford
  • "Mirror of Lop Nor" &nbsp by George Guthridge
  • "The Chronology Protection Case" &nbsp by Paul Levinson
  • "Must and Shall" &nbsp by Harry Turtledove
  • "The Perseids" &nbsp by Robert Charles Wilson
  • "After a Lean Winter" &nbsp by Dave Wolverton

• 1995: "Solitude" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" &nbsp by Dale Bailey
  • "Tea and Hamsters" &nbsp by Michael G. Coney
  • "Jesus at the Bat" &nbsp by Esther M. Friesner
  • "Home for Christmas" &nbsp by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • "Think Like a Dinosaur" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "When the Old Gods Die" &nbsp by Mike Resnick

• 1994: "The Martian Child" &nbsp by David Gerrold
  • "Necronauts" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "The Skeleton Key" &nbsp by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • "The Singular Habits of Wasps" &nbsp by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "The Matter of Seggri" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Nekropolis" &nbsp by Maureen F. McHugh

• 1993: "Georgia on My Mind" &nbsp by Charles Sheffield
  • "England Underway" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "The Nutcracker Coup" &nbsp by Janet Kagan
  • "The Franchise" &nbsp by John Kessel
  • "Things Not Seen" &nbsp by Martha Soukup
  • "Death on the Nile" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1992: "Danny Goes to Mars" &nbsp by Pamela Sargent
  • "Matter's End" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "The July Ward" &nbsp by S. N. Dyer
  • "The Honeycrafters" &nbsp by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." &nbsp by Susan M. Shwartz
  • "Prayers on the Wind" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams

• 1991: "Guide Dog" &nbsp by Michael Conner
  • "Gate of Faces" &nbsp by Ray Aldridge
  • "Black Glass" &nbsp by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "The All-Consuming" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier
  • "Standing In Line with Mister Jimmy" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Happy Man" &nbsp by Jonathan Lethem
  • "Getting Real" &nbsp by Susan M. Shwartz

• 1990: "Tower of Babylon" &nbsp by Ted Chiang
  • "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" &nbsp by Dafydd ab Hugh
  • "The Shobies' Story" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "1/72nd Scale" &nbsp by Ian R. MacLeod
  • "The Manamouki" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "A Time for Every Purpose" &nbsp by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • "Loose Cannon" &nbsp by Susan M. Shwartz
  • "Over the Long Haul" &nbsp by Martha Soukup

• 1989: "At the Rialto" &nbsp by Connie Willis
  • "Sisters" &nbsp by Greg Bear
  • "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" &nbsp by Megan Lindholm
  • "For I Have Touched the Sky" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Fast Cars" &nbsp by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • "" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1988: "Schrödinger's Kitten" &nbsp by George Alec Effinger
  • "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" &nbsp by Neal Barrett, Jr.
  • "Peaches for Mad Molly" &nbsp by Steven Gould
  • "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" &nbsp by Ian McDonald
  • "The Hob" &nbsp by Judith Moffett
  • "Kirinyaga" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" &nbsp by Howard Waldrop

• 1987: "Rachel in Love" &nbsp by Pat Murphy
  • "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" &nbsp by Octavia E. Butler
  • "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Dream Baby" &nbsp by Bruce McAllister
  • "Flowers of Edo" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "Schwarzschild Radius" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1986: "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm
  • "Hatrack River" &nbsp by Orson Scott Card
  • "Listening to Brahms" &nbsp by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • "The Winter Market" &nbsp by William Gibson
  • "Surviving" &nbsp by Judith Moffett
  • "Aymara" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Permafrost" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1985: "Portraits of His Children" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin
  • "A Gift from the GrayLanders" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "The Fringe" &nbsp by Orson Scott Card
  • "Paladin of the Lost Hour" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Dogfight" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick & William Gibson
  • "The Jaguar Hunter" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Rockabye Baby" &nbsp by S. C. Sykes

• 1984: "Bloodchild" &nbsp by Octavia E. Butler
  • "Bad Medicine" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "Saint Theresa of the Aliens" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Lucky Strike" &nbsp by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Trojan Horse" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1983: "Blood Music" &nbsp by Greg Bear
  • "Blind Shemmy" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "The Monkey Treatment" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin
  • "Black Air" &nbsp by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Cicada Queen" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "Slow Birds" &nbsp by Ian Watson
  • "The Sidon in the Mirror" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1982: "Fire Watch" &nbsp by Connie Willis
  • "Myths of the Near Future" &nbsp by J. G. Ballard
  • "Understanding Human Behavior" &nbsp by Thomas M. Disch
  • "Burning Chrome" &nbsp by William Gibson
  • "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman" &nbsp by Joanna Russ
  • "Swarm" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling

• 1981: "The Quickening" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Sea Changeling" &nbsp by Mildred Downey Broxon
  • "The Thermals of August" &nbsp by Edward Bryant
  • "The Fire When It Comes" &nbsp by Parke Godwin
  • "Mummer Kiss" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.

• 1980: "The Ugly Chickens" &nbsp by Howard Waldrop
  • "Strata" &nbsp by Edward Bryant
  • "The Way Station" &nbsp by Stephen King
  • "The Feast of Saint Janis" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "Ginungagap" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "Beatnik Bayou" &nbsp by John Varley

• 1979: "Sandkings" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin
  • "The Ways of Love" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "Camps" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "The Pathways of Desire" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "The Angel of Death" &nbsp by Michael Shea
  • "Options" &nbsp by John Varley

• 1978: "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" &nbsp by Charles L. Grant
  • "Mikal's Songbird" &nbsp by Orson Scott Card
  • "Devil You Don't Know" &nbsp by Dean Ing

• 1977: "The Screwfly Solution" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Particle Theory" &nbsp by Edward Bryant
  • "A Rite of Spring" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Stone City" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin
  • "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs"
    &nbsp by Carter Scholz

• 1976: "The Bicentennial Man" &nbsp by Isaac Asimov
  • "His Hour Upon the Stage" &nbsp by Grant Carrington
  • "Custer's Last Jump" &nbsp by Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop
  • "In the Bowl" &nbsp by John Varley

• 1975: "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" &nbsp by Tom Reamy
  • "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" &nbsp by Eleanor Arnason
  • "Blooded on Arachne" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "The Custodians" &nbsp by Richard Cowper
  • "The Dybbuk Dolls" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman" &nbsp by Avram Davidson
  • "The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhail" &nbsp by Randall Garrett
  • "The New Atlantis" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "A Galaxy Called Rome" &nbsp by Barry N. Malzberg
  • "The Bleeding Man" &nbsp by Craig Strete
  • "Retrograde Summer" &nbsp by John Varley

• 1974: "If the Stars Are Gods" &nbsp by Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford
  • "The Rest Is Silence" &nbsp by Charles L. Grant
  • "Twilla" &nbsp by Tom Reamy

• 1973: "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" &nbsp by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • "The Deathbird" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Case and the Dreamer" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.

• 1972: "Goat Song" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "The Animal Fair" &nbsp by Alfred Bester
  • "A Kingdom by the Sea" &nbsp by Gardner Dozois
  • "Basilisk" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "In the Deadlands" &nbsp by David Gerrold
  • "Patron of the Arts" &nbsp by Bill Rotsler
  • "The Funeral" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1971: "The Queen of Air and Darkness" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "A Special Kind of Morning" &nbsp by Gardner Dozois
  • "Mount Charity" &nbsp by Edgar Pangborn
  • "Poor Man, Beggar Man" &nbsp by Joanna Russ
  • "The Encounter" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1970: "Slow Sculpture" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "The Asian Shore" &nbsp by Thomas M. Disch
  • "Dear Aunt Annie" &nbsp by Gordon Eklund
  • "The Shaker Revival" &nbsp by Gerald Jonas
  • "Continued on Next Rock" &nbsp by R. A. Lafferty
  • "The Second Inquisition" &nbsp by Joanna Russ

• 1969: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" &nbsp by Samuel R. Delany
  • "Deeper than the Darkness" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "Nine Lives" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "The Big Flash" &nbsp by Norman Spinrad

• 1968: "Mother to the World" &nbsp by Richard Wilson
  • "Total Environment" &nbsp by Brian W. Aldiss
  • "The Sharing of Flesh" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "The Listeners" &nbsp by James Gunn
  • "The Guerrilla Trees" &nbsp by H. H. Hollis
  • "Once There Was a Giant" &nbsp by Keith Laumer
  • "Final War" &nbsp by Barry N. Malzberg

• 1967: "Gonna Roll the Bones" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Flatlander" &nbsp by Larry Niven
  • "The Keys to December" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny
  • "This Mortal Mountain" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1966: "Call Him Lord" &nbsp by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "Apology to Inky" &nbsp by Robert M. Green, Jr.
  • "An Ornament to His Profession" &nbsp by Charles L. Harness
  • "The Eskimo Invasion" &nbsp by Hayden Howard
  • "This Moment of the Storm" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1965: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny
  • "The Shipwrecked Hotel" &nbsp by James Blish & Norman L. Knight
  • "Vanishing Point" &nbsp by Jonathan Brand
  • "102 H-Bombs" &nbsp by Thomas M. Disch
  • "Half a Loaf" &nbsp by R. C. Fitzpatrick
  • "The Decision Makers" &nbsp by Joseph Green
  • "At the Institute" &nbsp by Norman Kagan
  • "The Earth Merchants" &nbsp by Norman Kagan
  • "Laugh Along with Franz" &nbsp by Norman Kagan
  • "The Life of Your Time" &nbsp by Michael Karageorge
  • "Four Ghosts In Hamlet" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Small One" &nbsp by E. Clayton McCarty
  • "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" &nbsp by Mack Reynolds
  • "Masque of the Red Shift" &nbsp by Fred Saberhagen
  • "Goblin Night" &nbsp by James H. Schmitz
  • "Planet of Forgetting" &nbsp by James H. Schmitz
  • "Maiden Voyage" &nbsp by J. W. Schutz
  • "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" &nbsp by Robert Sheckley
  • "The Masculinist Revolt" &nbsp by William Tenn

Lists of Nebula Award Winners

• Nebula Award for Best Novel
• Nebula Award for Best Novella
• Nebula Award for Best Short Story
• Nebula Award for Best Script

Trademark notice

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See also

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

External Links

http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NebulaNomList.html