Nebula Awards 1981
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Waldort-Astoria Hotel, New York City :
April 25, 1981
Eligibility Year: 1980
Associated Awards: SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 1980
Associated Awards: SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: Timescape, Gregory Benford (Simon & Schuster)
- Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Mockingbird, Walter S. Tevis (Doubleday)
- The Orphan, Robert Stallman (Pocket)
- The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (Simon & Schuster)
- The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge (The Dial Press/Quantum)
Novella
- Winner: “Unicorn Tapestry”, Suzy McKee Charnas (New Dimensions 11)
- “The Autopsy”, Michael Shea (F&SF Dec 1980)
- “The Brave Little Toaster”, Thomas M. Disch (F&SF Aug 1980)
- “Dangerous Games”, Marta Randall (F&SF Apr 1980)
- “Lost Dorsai”, Gordon R. Dickson (Destinies Vol. 2, No. 1, Feb.-Mar. 1980)
- “There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me”, Avram Davidson (Other Worlds 2)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Ugly Chickens”, Howard Waldrop (Universe 10)
- “Beatnik Bayou”, John Varley (New Voices III)
- “The Feast of Saint Janis”, Michael Swanwick (New Dimensions 11)
- “Ginungagap”, Michael Swanwick (TriQuarterly #49 Fall 1980)
- “Strata”, Edward Bryant (F&SF Aug 1980)
- “The Way Station”, Stephen King (F&SF Apr 1980)
Short Story
- Winner: “Grotto of the Dancing Deer”, Clifford D. Simak (Analog Apr 1980)
- “Secrets of the Heart”, Charles L. Grant (F&SF Mar 1980)
- “War Beneath the Tree”, Gene Wolfe (Omni Dec 1979)
- “Window”, Bob Leman (F&SF May 1980)
- “A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather”, Craig Strete (New Dimensions 11) [nomination withdrawn]
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