Nebula Award for Best Novel (Nebula Awards)

Nebula Awards

The Nebula Awards are given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the best science fiction or fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year. The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards. The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year for science fiction or fantasy novels published in English or translated into English and released in the United States or on the internet during the previous calendar year. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette, and novella categories. The Nebula Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually since 1966. Novels which were expanded forms of previously published short stories are eligible, as are novellas published by themselves if the author requests them to be considered as a novel. Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of the SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year between November 15 and February 15 by published authors who are members of the organization, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Members may then vote on the ballot throughout March, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.

Date Established : 1966

Check all the winners of Nebula Award for Best Novel presented under Nebula Awards since 1965 .

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Ann Leckie

Honored for : Ancillary Justice

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Karen Joy Fowler	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Neil Gaiman	The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Charles E. Gannon	Fire with Fire
Nicola Griffith	Hild
Ann Leckie	Ancillary Justice
Linda Nagata	The Red: First Light
Sofia Samatar	A Stranger in Olondria
Helene Wecker	The Golem and the Jinni

Kim Stanley Robinson

Honored for : 2312

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kim Stanley Robinson	2312
Mary Robinette Kowal	Glamour in Glass
Caitlín R. Kiernan	The Drowning Girl
N. K. Jemisin	The Killing Moon
Tina Connolly	Ironskin
Saladin Ahmed	Throne of the Crescent Moon

Jo Walton

Honored for : Among Others

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jo Walton	Among Others
N. K. Jemisin	The Kingdom of Gods
Genevieve Valentine	Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Kameron Hurley	God's War
Jack McDevitt	Firebird
China Miéville	Embassytown

Connie Willis

Honored for : Blackout/All Clear

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
N. K. Jemisin	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Mary Robinette Kowal	Shades of Milk and Honey
M. K. Hobson	The Native Star
Jack McDevitt	Echo
Connie Willis	Blackout/All Clear
Nnedi Okorafor	Who Fears Death

Paolo Bacigalupi

Honored for : The Windup Girl

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Paolo Bacigalupi	The Windup Girl
Christopher Barzak	The Love We Share Without Knowing
Jeff VanderMeer	Finch
Cherie Priest	Boneshaker
China Miéville	The City & the City
Laura Anne Gilman	Flesh and Fire

Ursula K. Le Guin

Honored for : Powers

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Ursula K. Le Guin	Powers
Cory Doctorow	Little Brother
Jack McDevitt	Cauldron
Ian McDonald	Brasyl
Terry Pratchett	Making Money
David J. Schwartz	Superpowers

Michael Chabon

Honored for : The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Tobias S. Buckell	Ragamuffin
Nalo Hopkinson	The New Moon's Arms
Joe Haldeman	The Accidental Time Machine
Jack McDevitt	Odyssey
Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Jack McDevitt

Honored for : Seeker

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Ellen Kushner	The Privilege of the Sword
Jeffrey Ford	The Girl in the Glass
Richard Bowes	From the Files of the Time Rangers
Jo Walton	Farthing
Jack McDevitt	Seeker
Wil McCarthy	To Crush the Moon

Joe Haldeman

Honored for : Camouflage

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Terry Pratchett	Going Postal
Jack McDevitt	Polaris
Geoff Ryman	Air
John C. Wright	Orphans of Chaos
Joe Haldeman	Camouflage

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honored for : Paladin of Souls

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lois McMaster Bujold	Paladin of Souls
Jack McDevitt	Omega
Gene Wolfe	The Knight
Sean Stewart	Perfect Circle
David Mitchell	Cloud Atlas
Cory Doctorow	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Elizabeth Moon

Honored for : Speed of Dark

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lois McMaster Bujold	Diplomatic Immunity
Elizabeth Moon	Speed of Dark
Nalo Hopkinson	The Salt Roads
Carol Emshwiller	The Mount
Kathleen Ann Goonan	Light Music
Jack McDevitt	Chindi

Neil Gaiman

Honored for : American Gods

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
China Miéville	Perdido Street Station
Neil Gaiman	American Gods
Kelley Eskridge	Solitaire
Ursula K. Le Guin	The Other Wind
Robert A. Metzger	Picoverse
Michael Swanwick	Bones of the Earth

Catherine Asaro

Honored for : The Quantum Rose

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Wil McCarthy	The Collapsium
Tim Powers	Declare
Catherine Asaro	The Quantum Rose
Jeffrey Carver	Eternity's End
Geoffrey A. Landis	Mars Crossing
Patricia A. McKillip	The Tower at Stony Wood
Connie Willis	Passage
George R. R. Martin	A Storm of Swords

Greg Bear

Honored for : Darwin's Radio

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lois McMaster Bujold	A Civil Campaign
Charles de Lint	Forests of the Heart
Jack McDevitt	Infinity Beach
Kathleen Ann Goonan	Crescent City Rhapsody
Greg Bear	Darwin's Radio
Nalo Hopkinson	Midnight Robber

Octavia E. Butler

Honored for : Parable of the Talents

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Sean Stewart	Mockingbird
Octavia E. Butler	Parable of the Talents
Vernor Vinge	A Deepness in the Sky
Maureen F. McHugh	Mission Child
George R. R. Martin	A Clash of Kings
Ken MacLeod	The Cassini Division

Joe Haldeman

Honored for : Forever Peace

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Catherine Asaro	The Last Hawk
Martha Wells	The Death of the Necromancer
Jack McDevitt	Moonfall
Joe Haldeman	Forever Peace
Connie Willis	To Say Nothing of the Dog
Harry Turtledove	How Few Remain

Vonda N. McIntyre

Honored for : The Moon and the Sun

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
George R. R. Martin	A Game of Thrones
Lois McMaster Bujold	Memory
Connie Willis	Bellwether
Walter Jon Williams	City on Fire
Jack McDevitt	Ancient Shores
Kate Elliott	King's Dragon
Vonda N. McIntyre	The Moon and the Sun

Nicola Griffith

Honored for : Slow River

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age
Tim Powers	Expiration Date
Robert J. Sawyer	Starplex
Nina Kiriki Hoffman	The Silent Strength of Stones
Patricia A. McKillip	Winter Rose
Nicola Griffith	Slow River

Robert J. Sawyer

Honored for : The Terminal Experiment

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Walter Jon Williams	Metropolitan
Gene Wolfe	Caldé of the Long Sun
Nancy Kress	Beggars and Choosers
Paul Park	Celestis
John Barnes	Mother of Storms
Robert J. Sawyer	The Terminal Experiment

Greg Bear

Honored for : Moving Mars

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Octavia E. Butler	Parable of the Sower
Rachel Pollack	Temporary Agency
Jonathan Lethem	Gun, with Occasional Music
Greg Bear	Moving Mars
James K. Morrow	Towing Jehovah
Roger Zelazny	A Night in the Lonesome October
Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Honored for : Red Mars

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Algis Budrys	Hard Landing
Gene Wolfe	Nightside the Long Sun
Doug Beason	Assemblers of Infinity
Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars
Nancy Kress	Beggars in Spain

Connie Willis

Honored for : Doomsday Book

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon the Deep
Jane Yolen	Briar Rose
Connie Willis	Doomsday Book
John Barnes	A Million Open Doors
Maureen F. McHugh	China Mountain Zhang
Karen Joy Fowler	Sarah Canary

Michael Swanwick

Honored for : Stations of the Tide

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lois McMaster Bujold	Barrayar
Pat Cadigan	Synners
Emma Bull	Bone Dance
Michael Swanwick	Stations of the Tide
John Barnes	Orbital Resonance
William Gibson	The Difference Engine
Bruce Sterling	The Difference Engine

Ursula K. Le Guin

Honored for : Tehanu

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Dan Simmons	The Fall of Hyperion
John E. Stith	Redshift Rendezvous
James K. Morrow	Only Begotten Daughter
Valerie Martin	Mary Reilly
Ursula K. Le Guin	Tehanu
Jane Yolen	White Jenna

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Honored for : The Healer's War

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Poul Anderson	The Boat of a Million Years
Orson Scott Card	Prentice Alvin
Mike Resnick	Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future
John Kessel	Good News From Outer Space
Jane Yolen	Sister Light, Sister Dark
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough	The Healer's War

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honored for : Falling Free

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lewis Shiner	Deserted Cities of the Heart
Gregory Benford	Great Sky River
Lois McMaster Bujold	Falling Free
Orson Scott Card	Red Prophet
Gene Wolfe	The Urth of the New Sun
George Turner	The Sea and Summer
William Gibson	Mona Lisa Overdrive

Pat Murphy

Honored for : The Falling Woman

Nominations 1987 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Avram Davidson	Vergil in Averno
Pat Murphy	The Falling Woman
David Brin	The Uplift War
Gene Wolfe	Soldier of the Mist
George Alec Effinger	When Gravity Fails
Greg Bear	The Forge of God

Orson Scott Card

Honored for : Speaker for the Dead

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead
Gene Wolfe	Free Live Free
James K. Morrow	This is the Way the World Ends
Leigh Kennedy	The Journal of Nicholas the American
William Gibson	Count Zero
Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale

Orson Scott Card

Honored for : Ender's Game

Nominations 1985 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
David Brin	The Postman
Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game
Tim Powers	Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Barry N. Malzberg	The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
Bruce Sterling	Schismatrix
Greg Bear	Blood Music
Brian Aldiss	Helliconia Winter

William Gibson

Honored for : Neuromancer

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Larry Niven	The Integral Trees
Jack Dann	The Man Who Melted
Kim Stanley Robinson	The Wild Shore
Lewis Shiner	Frontera
Robert A. Heinlein	Job: A Comedy of Justice
William Gibson	Neuromancer

David Brin

Honored for : Startide Rising

Nominations 1983 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
David Brin	Startide Rising
Gene Wolfe	The Citadel of the Autarch
R. A. MacAvoy	Tea with the Black Dragon
Jack Vance	Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
Norman Spinrad	The Void Captain's Tale
Gregory Benford	Against Infinity

Michael Bishop

Honored for : No Enemy But Time

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert A. Heinlein	Friday
Brian Aldiss	Helliconia Spring
Isaac Asimov	Foundation's Edge
Michael Bishop	No Enemy But Time
Philip K. Dick	The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Gene Wolfe	The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

Honored for : The Claw of the Conciliator

Nominations 1981 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
A. A. Attanasio	Radix
Gene Wolfe	The Claw of the Conciliator
Julian May	The Many-Colored Land
Suzy McKee Charnas	The Vampire Tapestry
Russell Hoban	Riddley Walker
John Crowley	Little, Big

Gregory Benford

Honored for : Timescape

Nominations 1980 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Walter Tevis	Mockingbird
Joan D. Vinge	The Snow Queen
Robert Stallman	The Orphan
Frederik Pohl	Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Gene Wolfe	The Shadow of the Torturer
Gregory Benford	Timescape

Arthur C. Clarke

Honored for : The Fountains of Paradise

Nominations 1979 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Frederik Pohl	Jem
John Varley	Titan
Thomas M. Disch	On Wings of Song
John Middleton Murry, Jr.	The Road to Corlay
Arthur C. Clarke	The Fountains of Paradise
Kate Wilhelm	Juniper Time

Vonda N. McIntyre

Honored for : Dreamsnake

Nominations 1978 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Gardner Dozois	Strangers
C. J. Cherryh	The Faded Sun: Kesrith
Vonda N. McIntyre	Dreamsnake
Gore Vidal	Kalki
Tom Reamy	Blind Voices

Frederik Pohl

Honored for : Gateway

Nominations 1977 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Richard A. Lupoff	Sword of the Demon
Terry Carr	Cirque
Gregory Benford	In the Ocean of Night
David Gerrold	Moonstar Odyssey
Frederik Pohl	Gateway

Frederik Pohl

Honored for : Man Plus

Nominations 1976 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert Silverberg	Shadrach in the Furnace
Jerry Pournelle	Inferno
Larry Niven	Inferno
Marta Randall	Islands
Frederik Pohl	Man Plus
Kate Wilhelm	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Samuel R. Delany	Triton

Joe Haldeman

Honored for : The Forever War

Nominations 1975 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Tanith Lee	The Birthgrave
Arthur Byron Cover	Autumn Angels
Samuel R. Delany	Dhalgren
Barry N. Malzberg	Guernica Night
E. L. Doctorow	Ragtime
Poul Anderson	A Midsummer Tempest
Joe Haldeman	The Forever War
Katherine MacLean	Missing Man
Italo Calvino	Invisible Cities
Jerry Pournelle	The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven	The Mote in God's Eye
Robert Silverberg	The Stochastic Man
Ian Watson	The Embedding
Vonda N. McIntyre	The Exile Waiting
Michael Bishop	A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
Joanna Russ	The Female Man
Roger Zelazny	Doorways in the Sand
Alfred Bester	The Computer Connection
Marion Zimmer Bradley	The Heritage of Hastur

Ursula K. Le Guin

Honored for : The Dispossessed

Nominations 1974 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
T. J. Bass	The Godwhale
Ursula K. Le Guin	The Dispossessed
Thomas M. Disch	334

Arthur C. Clarke

Honored for : Rendezvous with Rama

Nominations 1973 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow
David Gerrold	The Man Who Folded Himself
Arthur C. Clarke	Rendezvous with Rama
Poul Anderson	The People of the Wind
Robert A. Heinlein	Time Enough for Love

Isaac Asimov

Honored for : The Gods Themselves

Nominations 1972 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert Silverberg	Dying Inside
George Alec Effinger	What Entropy Means to Me
Norman Spinrad	The Iron Dream
John Brunner	The Sheep Look Up
David Gerrold	When Harlie Was One
Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves
Robert Silverberg	The Book of Skulls

Robert Silverberg

Honored for : A Time of Changes

Nominations 1971 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Ursula K. Le Guin	The Lathe of Heaven
Kate Wilhelm	Margaret and I
R. A. Lafferty	The Devil is Dead
Poul Anderson	The Byworlder
T. J. Bass	Half Past Human
Robert Silverberg	A Time of Changes

Larry Niven

Honored for : Ringworld

Nominations 1970 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Larry Niven	Ringworld
David G. Compton	The Steel Crocodile
Joanna Russ	And Chaos Died
Wilson Tucker	The Year of the Quiet Sun
Robert Silverberg	Tower of Glass
R. A. Lafferty	Fourth Mansions

Ursula K. Le Guin

Honored for : The Left Hand of Darkness

Nominations 1969 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five
Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness
Roger Zelazny	Isle of the Dead
John Brunner	The Jagged Orbit
Robert Silverberg	Up the Line
Norman Spinrad	Bug Jack Barron

Alexei Panshin

Honored for : Rite of Passage

Nominations 1968 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
John Brunner	Stand on Zanzibar
Alexei Panshin	Rite of Passage
Robert Silverberg	The Masks of Time
Joanna Russ	Picnic on Paradise
R. A. Lafferty	Past Master
James Blish	Black Easter

Samuel R. Delany

Honored for : The Einstein Intersection

Nominations 1967 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Hayden Howard	The Eskimo Invasion
Robert Silverberg	Thorns
Samuel R. Delany	The Einstein Intersection
Piers Anthony	Chthon
Roger Zelazny	Lord of Light

Samuel R. Delany

Honored for : Babel-17

Nominations 1966 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert A. Heinlein	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon
Samuel R. Delany	Babel-17

Daniel Keyes

Honored for : Flowers for Algernon

Nominations 1966 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert A. Heinlein	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon
Samuel R. Delany	Babel-17

Frank Herbert

Honored for : Dune

Nominations 1965 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kate Wilhelm	The Clone
Theodore L. Thomas	The Clone
Clifford D. Simak	All Flesh is Grass
James White	The Escape Orbit
G. C. Edmondson	The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
Frank Herbert	Dune
William S. Burroughs	Nova Express
Philip K. Dick	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
Poul Anderson	The Star Fox
Keith Laumer	A Plague of Demons
Thomas M. Disch	The Genocides
Philip K. Dick	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Avram Davidson	Rogue Dragon