Nebula Award for Best Short Story - Definition and Overview

Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. 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: "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Knapsack Poems" by Eleanor Arnason
  • "The Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier
  • "Goodbye to All That" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Grandma" by Carol Emshwiller
  • "Lambing Season" by Molly Gloss
  • "The Last of the O-Forms" by James Van Pelt

• 2002: "Creature" by Carol Emshwiller
  • "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford
  • "Cut" by Megan Lindholm
  • "Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City" by Jack McDevitt
  • "Little Gods" by Tim Pratt
  • "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick

• 2001: "The Cure for Everything" by Severna Park
  • "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" by Michael A. Burstein
  • "The Elephants on Neptune" by Mike Resnick
  • "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" by Sherwood Smith
  • "Wound the Wind" by George Zebrowski

• 2000: "macs" by Terry Bisson
  • "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" by Jeffrey Ford
  • "Flying Over Water" by Ellen Klages
  • "The Golem" by Severna Park
  • "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick
  • "You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine" by Pat York

• 1999: "The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What
  • "Flower Kiss" by Constance Ash
  • "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "Basil the Dog" by Frances Sherwood
  • "Radiant Doors" by Michael Swanwick
  • "Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick

• 1998: "Thirteen Ways to Water" by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "When the Bow Breaks" by Steven Brust
  • "Standing Room Only" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Fortune and Misfortune" by Lisa Goldstein
  • "Winter Fire" by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "Tall One" by K. D. Wentworth

• 1997: "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen
  • "The Crab Lice" by Gregory Feeley
  • "The Elizabeth Complex" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Dead" by Michael Swanwick
  • "Burning Bright" by K. D. Wentworth

• 1996: "A Birthday" by Esther M. Friesner
  • "In the Pound, Near Breaktime" by Kent Brewster
  • "The String" by Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • "Five Fucks" by Jonathan Lethem
  • "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of" by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" by Dean Wesley Smith

• 1995: "Death and the Librarian" by Esther M. Friesner
  • "Alien Jane" by Kelley Eskridge
  • "Grass Dancer" by Owl Goingback
  • "The Narcissus Plague" by Lisa Goldstein
  • "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh
  • "Short Timer" by Dave Smeds

• 1994: "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup
  • "Inspiration" by Ben Bova
  • "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman
  • "Understanding Entropy" by Barry N. Malzberg
  • "Virtual Love" by Maureen F. McHugh
  • "I Know What You're Thinking" by Kate Wilhelm

• 1993: "Graves" by Joe Haldeman
  • "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" by Harlan Ellison
  • "All Vows" by Esther M. Friesner
  • "Alfred" by Lisa Goldstein
  • "The Good Pup" by Bridget McKenna
  • "The Beggar in the Living Room" by William John Watkins

• 1992: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
  • "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" by Michael Bishop
  • "Lennon Spex" by Paul Di Filippo
  • "The Mountain to Mohammed" by Nancy Kress
  • "Vinland the Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" by Martha Soukup

• 1991: "Ma Qui" by Alan Brennert
  • "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson
  • "The Dark" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Buffalo" by John Kessel
  • "Dog's Life" by Martha Soukup
  • "the button, and what you know" by W. Gregory Stewart

• 1990: "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson
  • "The Power and the Passion" by Pat Cadigan
  • "Lieserl" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Pat Murphy
  • "Before I Wake" by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Story Child" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

• 1989: "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "The Adinkra Cloth" by Mary C. Aldridge
  • "The Ommatidium Miniatures" by Michael Bishop
  • "Lost Boys" by Orson Scott Card
  • "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • "Dori Bangs" by Bruce Sterling

• 1988: "" by James Morrow
  • "Voices of the Kill" by Thomas M. Disch
  • "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" by John Kessel
  • "The Fort Moxie Branch" by Jack McDevitt
  • "Dead Men on TV" by Pat Murphy
  • "The Color Winter" by Steven Popkes

• 1987: "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm
  • "Angel" by Pat Cadigan
  • "Kid Charlemagne" by Paul Di Filippo
  • "The Faithful Companion at Forty" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Cassandra's Photographs" by Lisa Goldstein
  • "Temple to a Minor Goddess" by Susan M. Shwartz
  • "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans

• 1986: "Tangents" by Greg Bear
  • "Robot Dreams" by Isaac Asimov
  • "Pretty Boy Crossover" by Pat Cadigan
  • "Rat" by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" by Nancy Springer
  • "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" by Howard Waldrop

• 1985: "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress
  • "Paper Dragons" by James P. Blaylock
  • "Snow" by John Crowley
  • "The Gods of Mars" by Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann & Michael Swanwick
  • "More Than the Sum of His Parts" by Joe Haldeman
  • "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" by Howard Waldrop
  • "Heirs of the Perisphere" by Howard Waldrop
  • "Hong's Bluff" by William F. Wu

• 1984: "Morning Child" by Gardner Dozois
  • "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" by George Alec Effinger
  • "Salvador" by Lucius Shepard
  • "Sunken Gardens" by Bruce Sterling
  • "A Cabin on the Coast" by Gene Wolfe
  • "The Eichmann Variations" by George Zebrowski

• 1983: "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois
  • "Her Furry Face" by Leigh Kennedy
  • "Cryptic" by Jack McDevitt
  • "Ghost Town" by Chad Oliver
  • "The Geometry of Narrative" by Hilbert Schenck
  • "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" by William F. Wu

• 1982: "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis
  • "Petra" by Greg Bear
  • "High Steel" by Jack C. Haldeman II & Jack Dann
  • "Corridors" by Barry N. Malzberg
  • "The Pope of the Chimps" by Robert Silverberg
  • "God's Hooks!" by Howard Waldrop

• 1981: "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle (refused)
  • "Going Under" by Jack Dann
  • "Disciples" by Gardner Dozois
  • "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson
  • "The Quiet" by George Guthridge
  • "Venice Drowned" by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Zeke" by Timothy R. Sullivan
  • "The Pusher" by John Varley

• 1980: "A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather" by Craig Strete

• 1980: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak
  • "Secrets of the Heart" by Charles L. Grant
  • "Window" by Bob Leman
  • "War Beneath the Tree" by Gene Wolfe

• 1979: "giANTS" by Edward Bryant
  • "Vernalfest Morning" by Michael Bishop
  • "Unaccompanied Sonata" by Orson Scott Card
  • "Red as Blood" by Tanith Lee
  • "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George R. R. Martin
  • "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" by Joanna Russ

• 1978: "Stone" by Edward Bryant
  • "Cassandra" by C. J. Cherryh
  • "A Quiet Revolution for Death" by Jack Dann

• 1977: "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Tin Woodman" by Dennis R. Bailey & Dave Bischoff
  • "The Hibakusha Gallery" by Edward Bryant
  • "Camera Obscura" by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • "Air Raid" by John Varley

• 1976: "A Crowd of Shadows" by Charles L. Grant
  • "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman
  • "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • "Back to the Stone Age" by Jake Saunders
  • "Stone Circle" by Lisa Tuttle
  • "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" by Howard Waldrop

• 1975: "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber
  • "Doing Lennon" by Gregory Benford
  • "White Creatures" by Gregory Benford
  • "Utopia of a Tired Man" by Jorge Luis Borges
  • "A Scraping at the Bones" by Algis Budrys
  • "Attachment" by Phyllis Eisenstein
  • "Shatterday" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Find the Lady" by Nicholas Fisk
  • "White Wolf Calling" by Charles L. Grant
  • "Sail the Tide of Mourning" by Richard A. Lupoff
  • "Child of All Ages" by P. J. Plauger
  • "Growing Up in Edge City" by Frederik Pohl
  • "Time Deer" by Craig Strete

• 1974: "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "After King Kong Fell" by Philip José Farmer
  • "The Engine at Heartspring's Center" by Roger Zelazny

• 1973: "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Shark" by Edward Bryant
  • "With Morning Comes Mistfall" by George R. R. Martin
  • "Wings" by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • "A Thing of Beauty" by Norman Spinrad
  • "German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe

• 1972: "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
  • "On the Downhill Side" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Shaffery Among the Immortals" by Frederik Pohl
  • "When We Went to See the End of the World" by Robert Silverberg
  • "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" by Gene Wolfe

• 1971: "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg
  • "Horse of Air" by Gardner Dozois
  • "The Last Ghost" by Stephen Goldin
  • "Heathen God" by George Zebrowski

• 1970: (no award)
  • "A Dream at Noonday" by Gardner Dozois
  • "By the Falls" by Harry Harrison
  • "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite" by R. A. Lafferty
  • "In the Queue" by Keith Laumer
  • "The Creation of Bennie Good" by James Sallis
  • "A Cold Dark Night with Snow" by Kate Wilhelm
  • "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" by Gene Wolfe

• 1969: "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg
  • "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Not Long Before the End" by Larry Niven
  • "The Man Who Learned Loving" by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr.

• 1968: "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm
  • "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson
  • "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" by Terry Carr
  • "Sword Game" by H. H. Hollis
  • "Masks" by Damon Knight
  • "Idiot's Mate" by Robert Taylor

• 1967: "Aye, and Gomorrah…" by Samuel R. Delany
  • "Earthwoman" by Reginald Bretnor
  • "Driftglass" by Samuel R. Delany
  • "Answering Service" by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Doctor" by Theodore Thomas
  • "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm

• 1966: "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna
  • "Man In His Time" by Brian W. Aldiss
  • "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw

• 1965: "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Eyes Do More Than See" by Isaac Asimov
  • "Founding Father" by Isaac Asimov
  • "Souvenir" by J. G. Ballard
  • "Game" by Donald Barthelme
  • "Lord Moon" by Jane Beauclerk
  • "Uncollected Works" by Lin Carter
  • "A Few Kindred Spirits" by John Christopher
  • "The House the Blakeneys Built" by Avram Davidson
  • "Computers Don't Argue" by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "Come to Venus Melancholy" by Thomas M. Disch
  • "Of One Mind" by James A. Durham
  • "Inside Man" by H. L. Gold
  • "Calling Dr. Clockwork" by Ron Goulart
  • "Better Than Ever" by Alex Kirs
  • "In Our Block" by R. A. Lafferty
  • "Slow Tuesday Night" by R. A. Lafferty
  • "Cyclops" by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Good New Days" by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Peacock King" by Larry McCombs & Ted White
  • "Though a Sparrow Fall" by Scott Nichols
  • "Becalmed in Hell" by Larry Niven
  • "Wrong-Way Street" by Larry Niven
  • "The Mischief Maker" by Richard Olin
  • "A Better Mousehole" by Edgar Pangborn
  • "A Leader for Yesteryear" by Mack Reynolds
  • "Keep Them Happy" by Robert Rohrer
  • "Balanced Ecology" by James H. Schmitz
  • "Over the River and Through the Woods" by Clifford D. Simak
  • "The Eight Billion" by Richard Wilson
  • "Devil Car" by Roger Zelazny

Lists of Nebula Award Winners

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

External links

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