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) “How Interesting: A Tiny Man”, Harlan Ellison |
| 2011 | (tie) “Ponies”, Kij Johnson |
| 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 — | |
| 2024 | Baldur's Gate 3, Adam Smith, Adrienne Law, Baudelaire Welch, Chrystal Ding, Ella McConnell, Ine Van Hamme, Jan Van Dosselaer, John Corcoran, Kevin VanOrd, Lawrence Schick, Martin Docherty, Rachel Quirke, Ruairí Moore, Sarah Baylus, Stephen Rooney, Swen Vincke |
| 2023 | Elden Ring, Hidetaka Miyazaki & George R. R. Martin |
| 2022 | Thirsty Sword Lesbians, April Kit Walsh, Whitney Delagio, Dominique Dickey, Jonaya Kemper, Alexis Sara, Rae Nedjadi |
| 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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