Nebula Award for Best Novella (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 Novella is given each year for science fiction or fantasy novellas 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 novella if it is between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novel category, and for shorter lengths in the short story and novelette categories. The Nebula Award for Best Novella has been awarded annually since 1966. Novellas published by themselves are eligible for the novel award instead if the author requests them to be considered as such. 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. The rules were changed to their current format in 2009. Previously, 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 Novella presented under Nebula Awards since 1965 .

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Vylar Kaftan

Honored for : The Weight of the Sunrise

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Andy Duncan	Wakulla Springs
Ellen Klages	Wakulla Springs
Vylar Kaftan	The Weight of the Sunrise
Nancy Kress	Annabel Lee
Veronica Schanoes	Burning Girls
Lawrence M. Schoen	Trial of the Century
Catherynne M. Valente	Six-Gun Snow White

Nancy Kress

Honored for : After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Nancy Kress	After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Aliette de Bodard	On a Red Station, Drifting
Lawrence M. Schoen	Barry's Tale
Robert Reed	Katabasis
Ken Liu	All the Flavors
Jay Lake	The Stars Do Not Lie

Kij Johnson

Honored for : The Man Who Bridged the Mist

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kij Johnson	The Man Who Bridged the Mist
Adam-Troy Castro	With Unclean Hands
Ken Liu	The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
Carolyn Ives Gilman	The Ice Owl
Catherynne M. Valente	Silently and Very Fast
Mary Robinette Kowal	Kiss Me Twice

Rachel Swirsky

Honored for : The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Rachel Swirsky	The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window
Geoffrey A. Landis	The Sultan of the Clouds
Ted Chiang	The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Paolo Bacigalupi	The Alchemist
J. Kathleen Cheney	Iron Shoes
Paul Park	Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance

Kage Baker

Honored for : The Women of Nell Gwynne's

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James K. Morrow	Shambling Towards Hiroshima
John Scalzi	The God Engines
Kage Baker	The Women of Nell Gwynne's
Carolyn Ives Gilman	Arkfall
Jason Sanford	Sublimation Angels
Nancy Kress	Act One

Catherine Asaro

Honored for : The Spacetime Pool

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Catherine Asaro	The Spacetime Pool
Gregory Benford	Dark Heaven
Kelley Eskridge	Dangerous Space
Charles Coleman Finlay	The Political Prisoner
Vera Nazarian	The Duke in His Castle

Nancy Kress

Honored for : Fountain of Age

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Matt Hughes	The Helper and His Hero
Bruce Sterling	Kiosk
Judith Berman	Awakening
Nancy Kress	Fountain of Age
Gene Wolfe	Memorare
Lucius Shepard	Stars Seen Through Stone

James Patrick Kelly

Honored for : Burn

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James Patrick Kelly	Burn
Paul Melko	The Walls of the Universe
Michael A. Burstein	Sanctuary
William Shunn	Inclination

Kelly Link

Honored for : Magic for Beginners

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kelly Link	Magic for Beginners
Albert E. Cowdrey	The Tribes of Bela
Robert J. Sawyer	Identity Theft
Paul Witcover	Left of the Dial
Bud Sparhawk	Clay's Pride

Walter Jon Williams

Honored for : The Green Leopard Plague

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Catherine Asaro	Walk in Silence
Walter Jon Williams	The Green Leopard Plague
Connie Willis	Just Like the Ones We Used to Know
Adam-Troy Castro	The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes
Vernor Vinge	The Cookie Monster

Neil Gaiman

Honored for : Coraline

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Ian R. MacLeod	Breathmoss
Kage Baker	The Empress of Mars
John Kessel	Stories for Men
Neil Gaiman	Coraline
Eleanor Arnason	The Potter of Bones

Richard Chwedyk

Honored for : Bronte's Egg

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Charles Coleman Finlay	The Political Officer
Andy Duncan	The Chief Designer
Richard Chwedyk	Bronte's Egg
Adam-Troy Castro	Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's
Bud Sparhawk	Magic's Price

Jack Williamson

Honored for : The Ultimate Earth

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lucius Shepard	Radiant Green Star
Brenda Clough	May Be Some Time
Catherine Asaro	A Roll of the Dice
Jack Williamson	The Ultimate Earth
Jack Dann	The Diamond Pit

Linda Nagata

Honored for : Goddesses

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jonathan Lethem	Ninety Percent of Everything
James Patrick Kelly	Ninety Percent of Everything
John Kessel	Ninety Percent of Everything
Andy Duncan	Fortitude
Lucius Shepard	Crocodile Rock
Walter Jon Williams	Argonautica
Linda Nagata	Goddesses
Mike Resnick	Hunting the Snark

Ted Chiang

Honored for : Story of Your Life

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Andy Duncan	The Executioners' Guild
Michael A. Burstein	Reality Check
Adam-Troy Castro	The Astronaut from Wyoming
Jerry Oltion	The Astronaut from Wyoming
David Marusek	The Wedding Album
L. Timmel Duchamp	Living Trust
Ted Chiang	Story of Your Life

Sheila Finch

Honored for : Reading the Bones

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Eliot Fintushel	Izzy and the Father of Terror
Geoffrey A. Landis	Ecopoiesis
David Gerrold	Jumping Off the Planet
Sheila Finch	Reading the Bones
Avram Davidson	The Boss in the Wall, A Treatise on the House Devil
Grania Davis	The Boss in the Wall, A Treatise on the House Devil
Catherine Asaro	Aurora in Four Voices

Jerry Oltion

Honored for : Abandon in Place

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Adam-Troy Castro	The Funeral March of the Marionettes
Bud Sparhawk	Primrose and Thorn
Robert Reed	Chrysalis
Allen Steele	\u2026Where Angels Fear to Tread
Paul Levinson	Loose Ends
Jerry Oltion	Abandon in Place

Jack Dann

Honored for : Da Vinci Rising

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jack Dann	Da Vinci Rising
Jack McDevitt	Time Travelers Never Die
Ursula K. Le Guin	A Woman's Liberation
Maureen F. McHugh	The Cost to Be Wise
George R. R. Martin	Blood of the Dragon
Allen Steele	The Death of Captain Future

Elizabeth Hand

Honored for : Last Summer at Mars Hill

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Nicola Griffith	Yaguara
Elizabeth Hand	Last Summer at Mars Hill
Susan Shwartz	Bibi
Mike Resnick	Bibi
Gregory Benford	Soon Comes Night
Brian Stableford	Mortimer Gray's History of Death

Mike Resnick

Honored for : Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Michael Swanwick	Cold Iron
Harlan Ellison	Mefisto in Onyx
Nina Kiriki Hoffman	Haunted Humans
Geoff Ryman	Fan
Ursula K. Le Guin	Forgiveness Day
Mike Resnick	Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Jack Cady

Honored for : The Night We Buried Road Dog

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Walter Jon Williams	Wall, Stone, Craft
G. David Nordley	Into the Miranda Rift
Jack Cady	The Night We Buried Road Dog
Nancy Kress	Dancing on Air
Kate Wilhelm	Naming the Flowers
Ray Aldridge	The Beauty Addict

James K. Morrow

Honored for : City of Truth

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James K. Morrow	City of Truth
Lucius Shepard	Barnacle Bill the Spacer
Bradley Denton	The Territory
Michael Swanwick	Griffin's Egg
Lee Goodloe	Contact
Jerry Oltion	Contact
Emma Bull	Silver or Gold
Maureen F. McHugh	Protection

Nancy Kress

Honored for : Beggars in Spain

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Mike Resnick	Bully!
Pauline Ashwell	Man Opening a Door
Kristine Kathryn Rusch	The Gallery of His Dreams
Nancy Kress	Beggars in Spain
Connie Willis	Jack
Michael Bishop	Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana

Joe Haldeman

Honored for : The Hemingway Hoax

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James Patrick Kelly	Mr. Boy
Pat Cadigan	Fool to Believe
Joe Haldeman	The Hemingway Hoax
Pat Murphy	Bones
Lois McMaster Bujold	Weatherman

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honored for : The Mountains of Mourning

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Judith Moffett	Tiny Tango
Lois McMaster Bujold	The Mountains of Mourning
Howard Waldrop	A Dozen Tough Jobs
Robin Hobb	A Touch of Lavender
George Alec Effinger	Marîd Changes His Mind
John Crowley	Great Work of Time

Connie Willis

Honored for : The Last of the Winnebagos

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Lucius Shepard	The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter
Norman Spinrad	Journals of the Plague Years
Connie Willis	The Last of the Winnebagos
Walter Jon Williams	Surfacing
Jane Yolen	The Devil's Arithmetic
Bradley Denton	The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians

Kim Stanley Robinson

Honored for : The Blind Geometer

Nominations 1987 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Walter Jon Williams	Witness
Robert Silverberg	The Secret Sharer
Geoff Ryman	The Unconquered Country
John M. Ford	Fugue State
Keith Roberts	The Tiger Sweater
Kim Stanley Robinson	The Blind Geometer

Lucius Shepard

Honored for : R&R

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert Silverberg	Gilgamesh in the Outback
Gregory Benford	Newton Sleep
Kim Stanley Robinson	Escape from Kathmandu
F. Paul Wilson	Dydeetown Girl
Lucius Shepard	R&R

Robert Silverberg

Honored for : Sailing to Byzantium

Nominations 1985 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr.	The Only Neat Thing to Do
Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars
Robert Silverberg	Sailing to Byzantium
Bruce Sterling	Green Days in Brunei
Kate Wilhelm	The Gorgon Field
Roger Zelazny	24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai

John Varley

Honored for : Press Enter

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Frederik Pohl	The Greening of Bed-Stuy
Michael Swanwick	Marrow Death
Lucius Shepard	A Traveler's Tale
Nancy Kress	Trinity
John Varley	Press Enter
Avram Davidson	Young Doctor Eszterhazy

Greg Bear

Honored for : Hardfought

Nominations 1983 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Michael Bishop	The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis
Robert Silverberg	Homefaring
Avram Davidson	Eszterhazy and the Autogóndola-Invention
Michael Bishop	Her Habiline Husband
Vonda N. McIntyre	Transit
Greg Bear	Hardfought

John Kessel

Honored for : Another Orphan

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Joanna Russ	Souls
Fritz Leiber	Horrible Imaginings
Brad Linaweaver	Moon of Ice
John Kessel	Another Orphan
George R. R. Martin	Unsound Variations

Poul Anderson

Honored for : The Saturn Game

Nominations 1981 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Gregory Benford	Swarmer, Skimmer
Jack Dann	Amnesia
Vernor Vinge	True Names
Phyllis Eisenstein	In the Western Tradition
Kate Wilhelm	The Winter Beach
Poul Anderson	The Saturn Game

Suzy McKee Charnas

Honored for : Unicorn Tapestry

Nominations 1980 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Marta Randall	Dangerous Games
Avram Davidson	There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me
Suzy McKee Charnas	Unicorn Tapestry
Thomas M. Disch	The Brave Little Toaster
Gordon R. Dickson	Lost Dorsai
Michael Shea	The Autopsy

Barry B. Longyear

Honored for : Enemy Mine

Nominations 1979 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Hilbert Schenck	The Battle of the Abaco Reefs
Barry B. Longyear	Enemy Mine
Joan D. Vinge	Fireship
Frederik Pohl	Mars Masked
Samuel R. Delany	The Tale of Gorgik
Richard Wilson	The Story Writer

John Varley

Honored for : The Persistence of Vision

Nominations 1978 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
John Varley	The Persistence of Vision
Gene Wolfe	Seven American Nights

Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson

Honored for : Stardance

Nominations 1977 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Vonda N. McIntyre	Aztecs
Spider Robinson	Stardance
Jeanne Robinson	Stardance

James Tiptree, Jr.

Honored for : Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

Nominations 1976 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr.	Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
John Middleton Murry, Jr.	Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Gene Wolfe	The Eyeflash Miracles
Michael Bishop	The Samurai and the Willows

Roger Zelazny

Honored for : Home Is the Hangman

Nominations 1975 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
William K. Carlson	Sunrise West
Roger Zelazny	Home Is the Hangman
James Tiptree, Jr.	A Momentary Taste of Being
George R. R. Martin	The Storms of Windhaven
Lisa Tuttle	The Storms of Windhaven

Robert Silverberg

Honored for : Born with the Dead

Nominations 1974 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert Silverberg	Born with the Dead
Michael Bishop	On the Street of the Serpents
George R. R. Martin	A Song for Lya

Gene Wolfe

Honored for : The Death of Doctor Island

Nominations 1973 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Gene Wolfe	The Death of Doctor Island
Gardner Dozois	Chains of the Sea
Michael Bishop	Death and Designation Among the Asadi
Jack Dann	Junction
Michael Bishop	The White Otters of Childhood

Arthur C. Clarke

Honored for : A Meeting with Medusa

Nominations 1972 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Gene Wolfe	The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Frederik Pohl	The Gold at the Starbow's End
Arthur C. Clarke	A Meeting with Medusa
Richard A. Lupoff	With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama
Ursula K. Le Guin	The Word for World is Forest
Phyllis Gotlieb	Son of the Morning

Katherine MacLean

Honored for : The Missing Man

Nominations 1971 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jerzy Kosi?ski	Being There
Kate Wilhelm	The Plastic Abyss
Keith Roberts	The God House
Kate Wilhelm	The Infinity Box
Katherine MacLean	The Missing Man

Fritz Leiber

Honored for : Ill Met in Lankhmar

Nominations 1970 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
James Blish	A Style in Treason
Poul Anderson	The Fatal Fulfillment
Fritz Leiber	Ill Met in Lankhmar
Harlan Ellison	The Region Between
Clifford D. Simak	The Thing in the Stone
Kate Wilhelm	April Fool's Day Forever

Harlan Ellison

Honored for : A Boy and His Dog

Nominations 1969 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Robert Silverberg	To Jorslem
Harlan Ellison	A Boy and His Dog
Anne McCaffrey	Dramatic Mission
Fritz Leiber	Ship of Shadows
Charles L. Harness	Probable Cause

Anne McCaffrey

Honored for : Dragonrider

Nominations 1968 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Dean McLaughlin	Hawk Among the Sparrows
Anne McCaffrey	Dragonrider
Keith Laumer	The Day Before Forever
Robert Silverberg	Nightwings
Samuel R. Delany	Lines of Power

Michael Moorcock

Honored for : Behold the Man

Nominations 1967 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Theodore Sturgeon	If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
Anne McCaffrey	Weyr Search
Michael Moorcock	Behold the Man
Philip José Farmer	Riders of the Purple Wage

Jack Vance

Honored for : The Last Castle

Nominations 1966 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Charles L. Harness	The Alchemist
Avram Davidson	Clash of Star-Kings
Jack Vance	The Last Castle

Brian Aldiss

Honored for : The Saliva Tree

Nominations 1965 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Roger Zelazny	The Dream Master
Brian Aldiss	The Saliva Tree
Cordwainer Smith	On the Storm Planet
James H. Schmitz	Research Alpha
A. E. van Vogt	Research Alpha
C. C. MacApp	The Mercurymen
Frederik Pohl	Under Two Moons
Samuel R. Delany	The Ballad of Beta-2
Avram Davidson	Rogue Dragon

Roger Zelazny

Honored for : The Dream Master

Nominations 1965 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Roger Zelazny	The Dream Master
Brian Aldiss	The Saliva Tree
Cordwainer Smith	On the Storm Planet
James H. Schmitz	Research Alpha
A. E. van Vogt	Research Alpha
C. C. MacApp	The Mercurymen
Frederik Pohl	Under Two Moons
Samuel R. Delany	The Ballad of Beta-2
Avram Davidson	Rogue Dragon