Nebula Awards Winners By Category
science fiction awards database
Category Groups:
novel | novella | novelette | short story | script / dramatic presentation | game writing | special award |
novel | novella | novelette | short story | script / dramatic presentation | game writing | special award |
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— novel — | |
| 2024 | The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera |
| 2023 | Babel, R. F. Kuang |
| 2022 | A Master of Djinn, P. Djčlí Clark |
| 2021 | Network Effect, Martha Wells |
| 2020 | A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker |
| 2019 | The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2018 | The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin |
| 2017 | All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders |
| 2016 | Uprooted, Naomi Novik |
| 2015 | Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2014 | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie |
| 2013 | 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 2012 | Among Others, Jo Walton |
| 2011 | Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis |
| 2010 | The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2009 | Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 2008 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon |
| 2007 | Seeker, Jack McDevitt |
| 2006 | Camouflage, Joe Haldeman |
| 2005 | Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 2004 | The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon |
| 2003 | American Gods, Neil Gaiman |
| 2002 | The Quantum Rose, Catherine Asaro |
| 2001 | Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear |
| 2000 | Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler |
| 1999 | Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman |
| 1998 | The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 1997 | Slow River, Nicola Griffith |
| 1996 | The Terminal Experiment (serial title “Hobson's Choice“), Robert J. Sawyer |
| 1995 | Moving Mars, Greg Bear |
| 1994 | Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 1993 | Doomsday Book, Connie Willis |
| 1992 | Stations of the Tide, Michael Swanwick |
| 1991 | Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1990 | The Healer's War, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
| 1989 | Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 1988 | The Falling Woman, Pat Murphy |
| 1987 | Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card |
| 1986 | Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card |
| 1985 | Neuromancer, William Gibson |
| 1984 | Startide Rising, David Brin |
| 1983 | No Enemy But Time, Michael Bishop |
| 1982 | The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe |
| 1981 | Timescape, Gregory Benford |
| 1980 | The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1979 | Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 1978 | Gateway, Frederik Pohl |
| 1977 | Man Plus, Frederik Pohl |
| 1976 | The Forever War, Joe Haldeman |
| 1975 | The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1974 | Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1973 | The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov |
| 1972 | A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg |
| 1971 | Ringworld, Larry Niven |
| 1970 | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1969 | Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin |
| 1968 | The Einstein Intersection, Samuel R. Delany |
| 1967 | (tie) Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany |
| 1967 | (tie) Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes |
| 1966 | Dune, Frank Herbert |
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— novella — | |
| 2024 | “Linghun”, Ai Jiang |
| 2023 | Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk |
| 2022 | And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed |
| 2021 | Ring Shout, P. Djčlí Clark |
| 2020 | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone |
| 2019 | The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard |
| 2018 | All Systems Red, Martha Wells |
| 2017 | Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire |
| 2016 | Binti, Nnedi Okorafor |
| 2015 | Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress |
| 2014 | “The Weight of the Sunrise”, Vylar Kaftan |
| 2013 | After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress |
| 2012 | “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson |
| 2011 | “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky |
| 2010 | The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker |
| 2009 | “The Spacetime Pool”, Catherine Asaro |
| 2008 | “Fountain of Age”, Nancy Kress |
| 2007 | Burn, James Patrick Kelly |
| 2006 | “Magic for Beginners”, Kelly Link |
| 2005 | “The Green Leopard Plague”, Walter Jon Williams |
| 2004 | Coraline, Neil Gaiman |
| 2003 | “Bronte's Egg”, Richard Chwedyk |
| 2002 | “The Ultimate Earth”, Jack Williamson |
| 2001 | “Goddesses”, Linda Nagata |
| 2000 | “Story of Your Life”, Ted Chiang |
| 1999 | “Reading the Bones”, Sheila Finch |
| 1998 | “Abandon in Place”, Jerry Oltion |
| 1997 | “Da Vinci Rising”, Jack Dann |
| 1996 | “Last Summer at Mars Hill”, Elizabeth Hand |
| 1995 | “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, Mike Resnick |
| 1994 | “The Night We Buried Road Dog”, Jack Cady |
| 1993 | City of Truth, James Morrow |
| 1992 | “Beggars in Spain”, Nancy Kress |
| 1991 | “The Hemingway Hoax”, Joe Haldeman |
| 1990 | “The Mountains of Mourning”, Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 1989 | “The Last of the Winnebagos”, Connie Willis |
| 1988 | “The Blind Geometer”, Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 1987 | “R&R”, Lucius Shepard |
| 1986 | “Sailing to Byzantium”, Robert Silverberg |
| 1985 | “PRESS ENTER[]”, John Varley |
| 1984 | “Hardfought”, Greg Bear |
| 1983 | “Another Orphan”, John Kessel |
| 1982 | “The Saturn Game”, Poul Anderson |
| 1981 | “Unicorn Tapestry”, Suzy McKee Charnas |
| 1980 | “Enemy Mine”, Barry B. Longyear |
| 1979 | “The Persistence of Vision”, John Varley |
| 1978 | “Stardance”, Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson |
| 1977 | “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?”, James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1976 | “Home Is the Hangman”, Roger Zelazny |
| 1975 | “Born with the Dead”, Robert Silverberg |
| 1974 | “The Death of Doctor Island”, Gene Wolfe |
| 1973 | “A Meeting with Medusa”, Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1972 | “The Missing Man”, Katherine MacLean |
| 1971 | “Ill Met in Lankhmar”, Fritz Leiber |
| 1970 | “A Boy and His Dog”, Harlan Ellison |
| 1969 | “Dragonrider”, Anne McCaffrey |
| 1968 | “Behold the Man”, Michael Moorcock |
| 1967 | “The Last Castle”, Jack Vance |
| 1966 | (tie) “He Who Shapes”, Roger Zelazny |
| 1966 | (tie) “The Saliva Tree”, Brian W. Aldiss |
|
— novelette — | |
| 2024 | “The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer |
| 2023 | “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu |
| 2022 | “O2 Arena”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki |
| 2021 | “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker |
| 2020 | Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo |
| 2019 | The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander |
| 2018 | “A Human Stain”, Kelly Robson |
| 2017 | “The Long Fall Up”, William Ledbetter |
| 2016 | “Our Lady of the Open Road”, Sarah Pinsker |
| 2015 | “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i”, Alaya Dawn Johnson |
| 2014 | “The Waiting Stars”, Aliette de Bodard |
| 2013 | “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan |
| 2012 | “What We Found”, Geoff Ryman |
| 2011 | “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made”, Eric James Stone |
| 2010 | “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast”, Eugie Foster |
| 2009 | “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel |
| 2008 | “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Ted Chiang |
| 2007 | “Two Hearts”, Peter S. Beagle |
| 2006 | “The Faery Handbag”, Kelly Link |
| 2005 | “Basement Magic”, Ellen Klages |
| 2004 | “The Empire of Ice Cream”, Jeffrey Ford |
| 2003 | “Hell is the Absence of God”, Ted Chiang |
| 2002 | “Louise's Ghost”, Kelly Link |
| 2001 | “Daddy's World”, Walter Jon Williams |
| 2000 | “Mars Is No Place for Children”, Mary A. Turzillo |
| 1999 | “Lost Girls”, Jane Yolen |
| 1998 | “The Flowers of Aulit Prison”, Nancy Kress |
| 1997 | “Lifeboat on a Burning Sea”, Bruce Holland Rogers |
| 1996 | “Solitude”, Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1995 | “The Martian Child”, David Gerrold |
| 1994 | “Georgia on My Mind”, Charles Sheffield |
| 1993 | “Danny Goes to Mars”, Pamela Sargent |
| 1992 | “Guide Dog”, Mike Conner |
| 1991 | “Tower of Babylon”, Ted Chiang |
| 1990 | “At the Rialto”, Connie Willis |
| 1989 | “Schrödinger's Kitten”, George Alec Effinger |
| 1988 | “Rachel in Love”, Pat Murphy |
| 1987 | “The Girl Who Fell into the Sky”, Kate Wilhelm |
| 1986 | “Portraits of His Children”, George R. R. Martin |
| 1985 | “Bloodchild”, Octavia E. Butler |
| 1984 | “Blood Music”, Greg Bear |
| 1983 | “Fire Watch”, Connie Willis |
| 1982 | “The Quickening”, Michael Bishop |
| 1981 | “The Ugly Chickens”, Howard Waldrop |
| 1980 | “Sandkings”, George R. R. Martin |
| 1979 | “A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye”, Charles L. Grant |
| 1978 | “The Screwfly Solution”, Raccoona Sheldon, aka James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1977 | “The Bicentennial Man”, Isaac Asimov |
| 1976 | “San Diego Lightfoot Sue”, Tom Reamy |
| 1975 | “If the Stars Are Gods”, Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford |
| 1974 | “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand”, Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 1973 | “Goat Song”, Poul Anderson |
| 1972 | “The Queen of Air and Darkness”, Poul Anderson |
| 1971 | “Slow Sculpture”, Theodore Sturgeon |
| 1970 | “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones”, Samuel R. Delany |
| 1969 | “Mother to the World”, Richard Wilson |
| 1968 | “Gonna Roll the Bones”, Fritz Leiber |
| 1967 | “Call Him Lord”, Gordon R. Dickson |
| 1966 | “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth”, Roger Zelazny |
|
— short story — | |
| 2024 | “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200”, R. S. A. Garcia |
| 2023 | “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills |
| 2022 | “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker |
| 2021 | “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell |
| 2020 | “Give the Family My Love”, A. T. Greenblatt |
| 2019 | “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djčlí Clark |
| 2018 | “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse |
| 2017 | “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar |
| 2016 | “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, Alyssa Wong |
| 2015 | “Jackalope Wives”, Ursula Vernon |
| 2014 | “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”, Rachel Swirsky |
| 2013 | “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard |
| 2012 | “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu |
| 2011 | (tie) “Ponies”, Kij Johnson |
| 2011 | (tie) “How Interesting: A Tiny Man”, Harlan Ellison |
| 2010 | “Spar”, Kij Johnson |
| 2009 | “Trophy Wives”, Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| 2008 | “Always”, Karen Joy Fowler |
| 2007 | “Echo”, Elizabeth Hand |
| 2006 | “I Live With You”, Carol Emshwiller |
| 2005 | “Coming to Terms”, Eileen Gunn |
| 2004 | “What I Didn't See”, Karen Joy Fowler |
| 2003 | “Creature”, Carol Emshwiller |
| 2002 | “The Cure for Everything”, Severna Park |
| 2001 | “macs”, Terry Bisson |
| 2000 | “The Cost of Doing Business”, Leslie What |
| 1999 | “Thirteen Ways to Water”, Bruce Holland Rogers |
| 1998 | “Sister Emily's Lightship”, Jane Yolen |
| 1997 | “A Birthday”, Esther M. Friesner |
| 1996 | “Death and the Librarian”, Esther M. Friesner |
| 1995 | “A Defense of the Social Contracts”, Martha Soukup |
| 1994 | “Graves”, Joe Haldeman |
| 1993 | “Even the Queen”, Connie Willis |
| 1992 | “Ma Qui”, Alan Brennert |
| 1991 | “Bears Discover Fire”, Terry Bisson |
| 1990 | “Ripples in the Dirac Sea”, Geoffrey A. Landis |
| 1989 | “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge”, James Morrow |
| 1988 | “Forever Yours, Anna”, Kate Wilhelm |
| 1987 | “Tangents”, Greg Bear |
| 1986 | “Out of All Them Bright Stars”, Nancy Kress |
| 1985 | “Morning Child”, Gardner Dozois |
| 1984 | “The Peacemaker”, Gardner Dozois |
| 1983 | “A Letter from the Clearys”, Connie Willis |
| 1982 | “The Bone Flute”, Lisa Tuttle [award declined] |
| 1981 | “Grotto of the Dancing Deer”, Clifford D. Simak |
| 1980 | “giANTS”, Edward Bryant |
| 1979 | “Stone”, Edward Bryant |
| 1978 | “Jeffty Is Five”, Harlan Ellison |
| 1977 | “A Crowd of Shadows”, Charles L. Grant |
| 1976 | “Catch That Zeppelin!”, Fritz Leiber |
| 1975 | “The Day Before the Revolution”, Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1974 | “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”, James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1973 | “When It Changed”, Joanna Russ |
| 1972 | “Good News from the Vatican”, Robert Silverberg |
| 1971 | no award |
| 1970 | “Passengers”, Robert Silverberg |
| 1969 | “The Planners”, Kate Wilhelm |
| 1968 | “Aye, and Gomorrah…”, Samuel R. Delany |
| 1967 | “The Secret Place”, Richard McKenna |
| 1966 | “'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman”, Harlan Ellison |
|
— script / dramatic presentation — | |
| 2009 | WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon & Peter Docter |
| 2008 | Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro |
| 2007 | Howl's Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt & Donald H. Hewitt |
| 2006 | Serenity, Joss Whedon |
| 2005 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson |
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson |
| 2002 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai & Hui-Ling Wang |
| 2001 | Galaxy Quest, David Howard & Robert Gordon |
| 2000 | The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1977 | no award |
| 1976 | Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder, screenplay; based on the novel by Mary Shelley |
| 1975 | Sleeper, Woody Allen |
| 1974 | Soylent Green, Stanley R. Greenberg, screenplay; based on a novel by Harry Harrison |
|
— game writing — | |
| 2023 | Elden Ring, Hidetaka Miyazaki & George R. R. Martin |
| 2021 | Hades, Greg Kasavin |
| 2020 | The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde & Chris L'Etoile |
| 2019 | Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker |
|
— special award — | |
| 1978 | Star Wars |
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