Nebula Award for Best Novella - Definition

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.

Winners and other nominees

• 2003: "Coraline" &nbsp by Neil Gaiman
  • "The Potter of Bones" &nbsp by Eleanor Arnason
  • "The Empress of Mars" &nbsp by Kage Baker
  • "Stories for Men" &nbsp by John Kessel
  • "Breathmoss" &nbsp by Ian R. MacLeod

• 2002: "Bronte's Egg" &nbsp by Richard Chwedyk
  • "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's" &nbsp by Adam-Troy Castro
  • "The Chief Designer" &nbsp by Andy Duncan
  • "The Political Officer" &nbsp by Charles Coleman Finlay
  • "Magic's Price" &nbsp by Bud Sparhawk

• 2001: "The Ultimate Earth" &nbsp by Jack Williamson
  • "A Roll of the Dice" &nbsp by Catherine Asaro
  • "May Be Some Time" &nbsp by Brenda W. Clough
  • "The Diamond Pit" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "Radiant Green Star" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard

• 2000: "Goddesses" &nbsp by Linda Nagata
  • "Fortitude" &nbsp by Andy Duncan
  • "Ninety Percent of Everything"
    &nbsp by Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
  • "Hunting the Snark" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Crocodile Rock" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Argonautica" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams

• 1999: "Story of Your Life" &nbsp by Ted Chiang
  • "Reality Check" &nbsp by Michael A. Burstein
  • "The Astronaut from Wyoming" &nbsp by Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion
  • "Living Trust" &nbsp by L. Timmel Duchamp
  • "The Executioners' Guild" &nbsp by Andy Duncan
  • "The Wedding Album" &nbsp by David Marusek

• 1998: "Reading the Bones" &nbsp by Sheila Finch
  • "Aurora in Four Voices" &nbsp by Catherine Asaro
  • "The Boss in the Wall, A Treatise on the House Devil"
    &nbsp by Avram Davidson & Grania Davis
  • "Izzy and the Father of Terror" &nbsp by Eliot Fintushel
  • "Jumping Off the Planet" &nbsp by David Gerrold
  • "Ecopoiesis" &nbsp by Geoffrey A. Landis

• 1997: "Abandon in Place" &nbsp by Jerry Oltion
  • "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" &nbsp by Adam-Troy Castro
  • "Loose Ends" &nbsp by Paul Levinson
  • "Chrysalis" &nbsp by Robert Reed
  • "Primrose and Thorn" &nbsp by Bud Sparhawk
  • "…Where Angels Fear to Tread" &nbsp by Allen Steele

• 1996: "Da Vinci Rising" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "A Woman's Liberation" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Blood of the Dragon" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin
  • "Time Travelers Never Die" &nbsp by Jack McDevitt
  • "The Cost to Be Wise" &nbsp by Maureen F. McHugh
  • "The Death of Captain Future" &nbsp by Allen Steele

• 1995: "Last Summer at Mars Hill" &nbsp by Elizabeth Hand
  • "Soon Comes Night" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "Yaguara" &nbsp by Nicola Griffith
  • "Bibi" &nbsp by Mike Resnick & Susan Shwartz
  • "Mortimer Gray's History of Death" &nbsp by Brian Stableford

• 1994: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Mefisto In Onyx" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Haunted Humans" &nbsp by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • "Forgiveness Day" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Fan" &nbsp by Geoff Ryman
  • "Cold Iron" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1993: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" &nbsp by Jack Cady
  • "The Beauty Addict" &nbsp by Ray Aldridge
  • "Dancing on Air" &nbsp by Nancy Kress
  • "Into the Miranda Rift" &nbsp by G. David Nordley
  • "Naming the Flowers" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm
  • "Wall, Stone, Craft" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams

• 1992: "City of Truth" &nbsp by James Morrow
  • "Silver or Gold" &nbsp by Emma Bull
  • "The Territory" &nbsp by Bradley Denton
  • "Contact" &nbsp by Jerry Oltion & Lee Goodloe
  • "Protection" &nbsp by Maureen F. McHugh
  • "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Griffin's Egg" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1991: "Beggars in Spain" &nbsp by Nancy Kress
  • "Man Opening a Door" &nbsp by Paul Ash
  • "Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Bully!" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "The Gallery of His Dreams" &nbsp by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • "Jack" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1990: "The Hemingway Hoax" &nbsp by Joe Haldeman
  • "Weatherman" &nbsp by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • "Fool to Believe" &nbsp by Pat Cadigan
  • "Mr. Boy" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "Bones" &nbsp by Pat Murphy

• 1989: "The Mountains of Mourning" &nbsp by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • "Great Work of Time" &nbsp by John Crowley
  • "Marîd Changes His Mind" &nbsp by George Alec Effinger
  • "A Touch of Lavender" &nbsp by Megan Lindholm
  • "Tiny Tango" &nbsp by Judith Moffett
  • "A Dozen Tough Jobs" &nbsp by Howard Waldrop

• 1988: "The Last of the Winnebagos" &nbsp by Connie Willis
  • "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" &nbsp by Bradley Denton
  • "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Journals of the Plague Years" &nbsp by Norman Spinrad
  • "Surfacing" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams
  • "The Devil's Arithmetic" &nbsp by Jane Yolen

• 1987: "The Blind Geometer" &nbsp by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Fugue State" &nbsp by John M. Ford
  • "The Tiger Sweater" &nbsp by Keith Roberts
  • "The Unconquered Country" &nbsp by Geoff Ryman
  • "The Secret Sharer" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg
  • "Witness" &nbsp by Walter Jon Williams

• 1986: "R&R" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Newton Sleep" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "Escape from Kathmandu" &nbsp by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Gilgamesh in the Outback" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg
  • "Dydeetown Girl" &nbsp by F. Paul Wilson

• 1985: "Sailing to Byzantium" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg
  • "Green Mars" &nbsp by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Green Days in Brunei" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "The Only Neat Thing to Do" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "The Gorgon Field" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm
  • "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1984: "[[PRESS ENTER[]]]" &nbsp by John Varley
  • "Young Doctor Eszterhazy" &nbsp by Avram Davidson
  • "Trinity" &nbsp by Nancy Kress
  • "The Greening of Bed-Stuy" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl
  • "A Traveler's Tale" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard
  • "Marrow Death" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1983: "Hardfought" &nbsp by Greg Bear
  • "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Her Habiline Husband" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Eszterhazy and the Autogóndola-Invention" &nbsp by Avram Davidson
  • "Transit" &nbsp by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • "Homefaring" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1982: "Another Orphan" &nbsp by John Kessel
  • "Horrible Imaginings" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Moon of Ice" &nbsp by Brad Linaweaver
  • "Unsound Variations" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin
  • "Souls" &nbsp by Joanna Russ

• 1981: "The Saturn Game" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "Swarmer, Skimmer" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "Amnesia" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "In the Western Tradition" &nbsp by Phyllis Eisenstein
  • "True Names" &nbsp by Vernor Vinge
  • "The Winter Beach" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1980: "Unicorn Tapestry" &nbsp by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • "There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me"
    &nbsp by Avram Davidson
  • "Lost Dorsai" &nbsp by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "The Brave Little Toaster" &nbsp by Thomas M. Disch
  • "Dangerous Games" &nbsp by Marta Randall
  • "The Autopsy" &nbsp by Michael Shea

• 1979: "Enemy Mine" &nbsp by Barry B. Longyear
  • "The Tale of Gorgik" &nbsp by Samuel R. Delany
  • "Mars Masked" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl
  • "The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" &nbsp by Hilbert Schenck
  • "Fireship" &nbsp by Joan D. Vinge
  • "The Story Writer" &nbsp by Richard Wilson

• 1978: "The Persistence of Vision" &nbsp by John Varley
  • "Seven American Nights" &nbsp by Gene Wolfe

• 1977: "Stardance" &nbsp by Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson
  • "Aztecs" &nbsp by Vonda N. McIntyre

• 1976: "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "The Samurai and the Willows" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" &nbsp by Richard Cowper
  • "The Eyeflash Miracles" &nbsp by Gene Wolfe

• 1975: "Home Is the Hangman" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny
  • "Sunrise West" &nbsp by William K. Carlson
  • "The Storms of Windhaven" &nbsp by Lisa Tuttle & George R. R. Martin
  • "A Momentary Taste of Being" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.

• 1974: "Born with the Dead" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg
  • "On the Street of the Serpents" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "A Song for Lya" &nbsp by George R. R. Martin

• 1973: "The Death of Doctor Island" &nbsp by Gene Wolfe
  • "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "The White Otters of Childhood" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Junction" &nbsp by Jack Dann
  • "Chains of the Sea" &nbsp by Gardner Dozois

• 1972: "A Meeting with Medusa" &nbsp by Arthur C. Clarke
  • "Son of the Morning" &nbsp by Phyllis Gotlieb
  • "The Word for World Is Forest" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama"
    &nbsp by Richard A. Lupoff
  • "The Gold at the Starbow's End" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl
  • "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" &nbsp by Gene Wolfe

• 1971: "The Missing Man" &nbsp by Katherine Maclean
  • "Being There" &nbsp by Jerzy Kosinski
  • "The God House" &nbsp by Keith Roberts
  • "The Infinity Box" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm
  • "The Plastic Abyss" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1970: "Ill Met in Lankhmar" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Fatal Fulfillment" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "A Style in Treason" &nbsp by James Blish
  • "The Region Between" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Thing in the Stone" &nbsp by Clifford D. Simak
  • "April Fool's Day Forever" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1969: "A Boy and His Dog" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Probable Cause" &nbsp by Charles L. Harness
  • "Ship of Shadows" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Dramatic Mission" &nbsp by Anne McCaffrey
  • "To Jorslem" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1968: "Dragonrider" &nbsp by Anne McCaffrey
  • "Lines of Power" &nbsp by Samuel R. Delany
  • "The Day Before Forever" &nbsp by Keith Laumer
  • "Hawk Among the Sparrows" &nbsp by Dean McLaughlin
  • "Nightwings" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1967: "Behold the Man" &nbsp by Michael Moorcock
  • "Riders of the Purple Wage" &nbsp by Philip José Farmer
  • "Weyr Search" &nbsp by Anne McCaffrey
  • "Hawksbill Station" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg
  • "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?"
    &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon

• 1966: "The Last Castle" &nbsp by Jack Vance
  • "Clash of Star-Kings" &nbsp by Avram Davidson
  • "The Alchemist" &nbsp by Charles L. Harness

• 1965: "The Saliva Tree" &nbsp by Brian W. Aldiss &nbsp (tie)
• 1965: "He Who Shapes" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny &nbsp (tie)
  • "Rogue Dragon" &nbsp by Avram Davidson
  • "The Ballad of Beta-2" &nbsp by Samuel R. Delany
  • "The Mercurymen" &nbsp by C. C. MacApp
  • "Under Two Moons" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl
  • "Research Alpha" &nbsp by A. E. van Vogt & James H. Schmitz
  • "On the Storm Planet" &nbsp by Cordwainer Smith

Lists of Nebula Award Winners

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

Trademark notice

Nebula Awards is a registered trademark of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

See also

• Hugo Award for Best Novella

External links

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