Nebula Awards 1989
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Penta Hotel, New York City :
April 22, 1989
Eligibility Year: 1988
Associated Awards: SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 1988
Associated Awards: SFWA Grand Master Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold (Analog Dec,mid-Dec 1987,Jan,Feb 1988; Baen)
- Deserted Cities of the Heart, Lewis Shiner (Doubleday Foundation)
- Drowning Towers, George Turner (Arbor House/Morrow)
- Great Sky River, Gregory Benford (Bantam Spectra)
- Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson (Bantam Spectra)
- Red Prophet, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
- The Urth of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Novella
- Winner: “The Last of the Winnebagos”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Jul 1988)
- “The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians”, Bradley Denton (F&SF Jun 1988)
- The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen (Viking Kestrel)
- “Journals of the Plague Years”, Norman Spinrad (Full Spectrum)
- The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter, Lucius Shepard (Mark V. Ziesing; Asimov's Sep 1988)
- “Surfacing”, Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Apr 1988)
Novelette
- Winner: “Schrödinger's Kitten”, George Alec Effinger (Omni Sep 1988)
- “Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?”, Howard Waldrop (Asimov's Aug 1988)
- “Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus”, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Asimov's Feb 1988)
- “The Hob”, Judith Moffett (Asimov's May 1988)
- “Kirinyaga”, Mike Resnick (F&SF Nov 1988)
- “Peaches for Mad Molly”, Steven Gould (Analog Feb 1988)
- “Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh”, Ian McDonald (Empire Dreams)
Short Story
- Winner: “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge”, James Morrow (Full Spectrum)
- “The Color Winter”, Steven Popkes (Asimov's Aug 1988)
- “Dead Men on TV”, Pat Murphy (Full Spectrum)
- “The Fort Moxie Branch”, Jack McDevitt (Full Spectrum)
- “Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner”, John Kessel (Asimov's Jun 1988)
- “Voices of the Kill”, Thomas M. Disch (Full Spectrum)
— Associated Awards —
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