Nebula Award for Best Novel
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is an award for the best science fiction stories presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) since 1966 . A written work is defined as a novel if it contains 40,000 or more words. The award is also presented in the categories of Best Novella , Best Novelette , Best Short Story, and Best Script / Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation . To be nominated for the Nebula Award, the novel must have been published in English in the USA . The novels, which are elaborated versions of the previously published short story, can also be nominated for the Nebula Award. Nominalists and winners for the Nebula Award are chosen by the members of the SFWA. The nominalists themselves do not have to be members of the SFWA. The novels that have already been published are selected for nomination between November 15 and February 15 each year. SFWA selects nominees during the month of March, and the winners will be named at the final ceremony in May. The authors are not allowed to nominate themselves.
statistics
In the 54-year history of the award ceremony, 41 authors have received the Nebula Award for the best novel. Ursula K. Le Guin received it most often - four times. Joe Haldeman received it three times. Nine other authors have received two awards. Jack McDevitt was nominated the most - 12 times.
Winners and Finalists
The winners of the respective years are highlighted in yellow .
2010s | |||
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year | author | Original title | German edition |
2020 | Sarah Pinsker | A Song for a New Day | |
Charles E. Gannon | Marque of Caine | ||
Alix E. Harrow | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | ||
Arkady Martine | A Memory Called Empire | In the heart of the empire | |
Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Gods of Jade and Shadow | ||
Tamsyn Muir | Gideon the Ninth | ||
2019 | Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | |
Sam J. Miller | Blackfish City | ||
Rebecca F. Kuang | The Poppy War | Under the sign of the poppy - the shaman | |
Naomi Novik | Spinning Silver | ||
Rebecca Roanhorse | Trail of Lightning | ||
CL Polk | Witchmark | ||
2018 | NK Jemisin | The Stone Sky | |
Lara Elena Donnelly | Amberlough | ||
Theodora Goss | The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | ||
Daryl Gregory | Spoonbenders | ||
Mur Lafferty | Six wakes | ||
Fonda Lee | Jade City | ||
Annalee Newitz | Autonomous | Autonomous | |
2017 | Charlie Jane Anders | All the birds in the sky | All the birds under the sky |
Mishell Baker | Borderline | ||
NK Jemisin | The Obelisk Gate | ||
Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit | ||
Nisi Shawl | Everfair | ||
2016 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted | The dark heart of the forest |
Ann Leckie | Ancillary Mercy | The empire | |
Lawrence M. Schoen | Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard | ||
NK Jemisin | The Fifth Season | Broken earth | |
Ken Liu | The Grace of Kings | The swords of Dara | |
Charles E. Gannon | Raising Caine | ||
Fran Wilde | Updraft | City of wind and bones | |
2015 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | Extinction |
Katherine Addison | The Goblin Emperor | The winter emperor | |
Charles E. Gannon | Trial by Fire | ||
Ann Leckie | Ancillary Sword | The mission | |
Cixin Liu | The three-body problem | The three suns | |
Jack McDevitt | Coming home | Apollo | |
2014 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | The machines |
Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | The fabulous sisters of the Cooke family | |
Neil Gaiman | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | The ocean at the end of the street | |
Charles E. Gannon | Fire with Fire | ||
Nicola Griffith | Hild | ||
Linda Nagata | The Red: First Light | Dawn | |
Sofia Samatar | A Stranger in Olondria | ||
Helene Wecker | The Golem and the Jinni | Golem and Djinn | |
2013 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | 2312 |
Saladin Ahmed | Throne of the Crescent Moon | The sword of the dawn | |
Tina Connolly | Ironskin | ||
NK Jemisin | The Killing Moon | ||
Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl | ||
Mary Robinette Kowal | Glamor in glass | ||
2012 | Jo Walton | Among others | In another world |
China Miéville | Embassytown | City of Strangers | |
Jack McDevitt | Firebird | Firebird | |
Cameron Hurley | God's War | ||
Genevieve Valentine | Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti | ||
NK Jemisin | The Kingdom of Gods | Rival of the gods | |
2011 | Connie Willis | Blackout / All Clear | Darkness / light |
MK Hobson | The Native Star | ||
NK Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | The heiress of the world | |
Mary Robinette Kowal | Shades of Milk and Honey | ||
Jack McDevitt | echo | echo | |
Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | Who fears death | |
2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | Bio war |
Christopher Barzak | The Love We Share Without Knowing | ||
Laura Anne Gilman | Flesh and Fire | ||
China Miéville | The City & the City | The city & the city | |
Cherie Priest | Boneshaker | Boneshaker | |
Jeff VanderMeer | Finch | ||
2000s | |||
year | author | Original title | German edition |
2009 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Powers | |
Cory Doctorow | Little brother | Little brother | |
Jack McDevitt | Cauldron | Cauldron | |
Ian McDonald | Brasyl | ||
Terry Pratchett | Making Money | Nice bills | |
David J. Schwartz | Superpowers | ||
2008 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | The Association of Yiddish Police Officers |
Jack McDevitt | Odyssey | Odyssey | |
Joe Haldeman | The Accidental Time Machine | Master of time | |
Nalo Hopkinson | The New Moon's Arms | ||
Tobias S. Buckell | Ragamuffin | Strays | |
2007 | Jack McDevitt | Seeker | The search |
Ellen Kushner | The Privilege of the Sword | The servant of the sword | |
Jeffrey Ford | The Girl in the Glass | ||
Jo Walton | Farthing | The hour of the robins | |
Richard Bowes | From the Files of the Time Rangers | ||
Wil McCarthy | To crush the moon | ||
2006 | Joe Haldeman | camouflage | camouflage |
Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | |
Jack McDevitt | Polaris | Polaris | |
Terry Pratchett | Going Postal | Let's go | |
Geoff Ryman | Air | ||
John C. Wright | Orphans of Chaos | ||
2005 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Paladin of Souls | Paladin of Souls |
Cory Doctorow | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Backup | |
Jack McDevitt | omega | omega | |
David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | The cloud atlas | |
Sean Stewart | Perfect Circle | ||
Gene Wolfe | The Knight | The Knight | |
2004 | Elizabeth Moon | The Speed of Dark | The speed of the dark |
Lois McMaster Bujold | Diplomatic Immunity | Diplomatic entanglements | |
Carol Emshwiller | The Mount | ||
Kathleen Ann Goonan | Light Music | ||
Nalo Hopkinson | The Salt Roads | ||
Jack McDevitt | Chindi | Chindi | |
2003 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | American Gods |
Kelley Eskridge | Solitaire | ||
Ursula K. Le Guin | The Other Wind | Return to Earth Sea | |
Robert A. Metzger | Picoverse | ||
China Miéville | Perdido Street Station |
Perdido Street Station also: Die Falter / Der Weber |
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Michael Swanwick | Bones of the Earth | ||
2002 | Catherine Asaro | The Quantum Rose | The quantum rose |
Jeffrey Carver | Eternity's End | At the end of eternity | |
Geoffrey A. Landis | Mars Crossing | ||
George RR Martin | A Storm of Swords |
Storm of Swords / The Queen of Dragons also: sword thunderstorm |
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Wil McCarthy | The Collapsium | The creator of eternity | |
Patricia A. McKillip | The Tower at Stony Wood | In the dragon tower | |
Tim Powers | Declare | Declare - On the mountain of angels | |
Connie Willis | passage | ||
2001 | Greg Bear | Darwin's radio | The Darwin virus |
Lois McMaster Bujold | A Civil Campaign | Ambassador of the Empire | |
Kathleen Ann Goonan | Crescent City Rhapsody | ||
Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber | ||
Jack McDevitt | Infinity Beach | Traces in nowhere | |
Charles de Lint | Forests of the Heart | ||
2000 | Octavia E. Butler | Parable of the Talents | |
Ken MacLeod | The Cassini Division | The Cassini Division | |
George RR Martin | A clash of kings |
The throne of the seven kingdoms / the seeds of the golden lion also: royal feud |
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Maureen F. McHugh | Mission Child | ||
Sean Stewart | Mockingbird | Witch storm | |
Vernor Vinge | A deepness in the sky | A depth in the sky | |
1990s | |||
year | author | Original title | German edition |
1999 | Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | Eternal peace |
Catherine Asaro | The Last Hawk | The last falcon | |
Jack McDevitt | Moonfall | Fragments of the moon | |
Harry Turtledove | How Few Remain | ||
Martha Wells | Death of the Necromancer | Necromancer | |
Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog | The colors of time | |
1998 | Vonda N. McIntyre | The moon and the sun |
Also at the court of the Sun King : The song of the moon and the sun |
Lois McMaster Bujold | Memory | Viruses of oblivion | |
Kate Elliott | King's Dragon | Heirs of the night / In the name of the king | |
George RR Martin | A Game of Thrones |
The Lords of Winterfell / The Legacy of Winterfell also: Iron Throne |
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Jack McDevitt | Ancient Shores | The coasts of the past | |
Walter Jon Williams | City on Fire | ||
Connie Willis | Bellwether | ||
1997 | Nicola Griffith | Slow River | Shallows |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Silent Strength of Stones | ||
Patricia A. McKillip | Winter rose | Winter rose | |
Tim Powers | Expiration date | ||
Robert J. Sawyer | Starplex | ||
Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age | Diamond Age | |
1996 | Robert J. Sawyer | The Terminal Experiment | The third simulation |
John Barnes | Mother of Storms | The mother of all storms | |
Nancy Kress | Beggars and Choosers | Beggars and seekers | |
Paul Park | Celestis | ||
Walter Jon Williams | Metropolitan | Plasma City | |
Gene Wolfe | Calde of the Long Sun | The Caldé of the Long Sun | |
1995 | Greg Bear | Moving Mars | Home Mars |
Octavia E. Butler | Parable of the Sower | The parable of the sower | |
Jonathan Lethem | Gun, with Occasional Music | Creak with accompanying music | |
James K. Morrow | Towing Jehovah | The God's Supper | |
Rachel Pollack | Temporary Agency | ||
Kim Stanley Robinson | Green Mars | Green Mars | |
Roger Zelazny | A Night in the Lonesome October | The clan of magicians | |
1994 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | Red Mars |
Kevin J. Anderson / Doug Beason | Assemblers of Infinity | ||
Algis Budrys | Hard landing | Hard landing | |
Nancy Kress | Beggars in Spain | Beggar in Spain | |
Gene Wolfe | Nightside the Long Sun | The night side of the long sun | |
1993 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | The years of the black death |
John Barnes | A Million Open Doors | A million open gates | |
Karen Joy Fowler | Sarah Canary | Sarah Canary's Secret | |
Maureen F. McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | ABC Zhang | |
Vernor Vinge | A fire upon the deep | A fire on the deep | |
Jane Yolen | Briar Rose | Thorn rose | |
1992 | Michael Swanwick | Stations of the Tide | In times of flood |
John Barnes | Orbital Resonance | Orbital resonance | |
Lois McMaster Bujold | Barrayar | Barrayar | |
Emma Bull | Bone Dance | ||
Pat Cadigan | Synners | Synder | |
Bruce Sterling / William Gibson | The Difference Engine | The difference machine | |
1991 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea | Tehanu |
Valerie Martin | Mary Reilly | ||
James K. Morrow | Only Begotten Daughter | The only begotten daughter | |
Dan Simmons | The Fall of Hyperion | The fall of Hyperion | |
John E. Stith | Redshift rendezvous | ||
Jane Yolen | White Jenna | ||
1990 | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough | The Healer's War | |
Poul Anderson | The Boat of a Million Years | Time trial | |
Orson Scott Card | Prentice Alvin | The magic plow | |
John Kessel | Good News From Outer Space | Good news from the stars | |
Mike Resnick | Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future | ivory | |
Jane Yolen | Sister Light, Sister Dark | ||
1980s | |||
year | author | Original title | German edition |
1989 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Falling Free | The quaddies from Cay Habitat |
Lewis Shiner | Deserted Cities of the Heart | Forsaken cities of the heart | |
George Turner | Drowning Towers | ||
Gregory Benford | Great Sky River | Sky river | |
William Gibson | Mona Lisa overdrive | Mona Lisa overdrive | |
Orson Scott Card | Red Prophet | The Red Prophet | |
Gene Wolfe | The Urth of the New Sun | The Urth of the New Sun. | |
1988 | Pat Murphy | The Falling Woman | The spirit seer |
Greg Bear | The Forge of God | Forge of God | |
Gene Wolfe | Soldier of the Mist | Soldier of the Fog | |
David Brin | The Uplift War | Development war | |
Avram Davidson | Virgil in Averno | ||
George Alec Effinger | When Gravity Fails | The end of gravity | |
1987 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Speaker for the dead |
William Gibson | Count Zero | Biochips | |
Gene Wolfe | Free Live Free | Free's legacy | |
Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | The maid's report | |
Leigh Kennedy | The Journal of Nicholas the American | Nikolai the American's diary | |
James K. Morrow | This is the way the world ends | This is how the world must end | |
1986 | Orson Scott Card | Ender's game |
The big game too: Ender's game |
Greg Bear | Blood Music | Blood music | |
Tim Powers | Dinner at Deviant's Palace | At table in Deviant's palace | |
Brian Aldiss | Helliconia winter | Helliconia: winter | |
David Brin | The Postman |
Postman also: Gordon's calling |
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Barry N. Malzberg | The Remaking of Sigmund Freud | ||
Bruce Sterling | Schism matrix | Schism matrix | |
1985 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Neuromancer |
Lewis Shiner | Frontera | Frontera | |
Larry Niven | The integral trees | The floating forest | |
Robert A. Heinlein | Job: A Comedy of Justice | The new book of Job | |
Jack then | The Man Who Melted | The melting man | |
Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore | The wild bank | |
1984 | David Brin | Startide rising | Star flood |
Gregory Benford | Against Infinity | Against infinity | |
Gene Wolfe | The Citadel of the Autarch | The Autarch's Citadel | |
Jack Vance | Lyonesse | Ruler of Lyonesse | |
RA MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon | Meet at the black dragon | |
Norman Spinrad | The Void Captain's Tale | That the great nothing surrounds me | |
1983 | Michael Bishop | No Enemy But Time | Only time to the enemy |
Isaac Asimov | Foundation's Edge | The search for the earth | |
Robert A. Heinlein | Friday | Friday | |
Brian Aldiss | Helliconia Spring | Helliconia: spring | |
Gene Wolfe | The Sword of the Lictor | The lictor's sword | |
Philip K. Dick | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | The rebirth of Timothy Archer | |
1982 | Gene Wolfe | The Claw of the Conciliator | The Arbiter's Claw |
John Crowley | Little, big | Little Big or The Parliament of the Fairies | |
Julian May | The Many-Colored Land | The multicolored country | |
AA Attanasio | Radix | Radix | |
Russell Hoban | Riddley Walker | ||
Suzy McKee Charnas | The Vampire Tapestry | The vampire canopy | |
1981 | Gregory Benford | Timescape | Timeline |
Frederik Pohl | Beyond the Blue Event Horizon | Beyond the blue horizon | |
Walter Tevis | Mockingbird | The last of mankind | |
Robert Stallman | The Orphan | Werwelt: The boulder | |
Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | The torturer's shadow | |
Joan D. Vinge | The Snow Queen | the snow Queen | |
1980 | Arthur C. Clarke | The Fountains of Paradise | Elevator to the Stars |
Frederik Pohl | Jem | JEM - The construction of a utopia | |
Kate Wilhelm | Juniper Time | Juniper season | |
Thomas M. Disch | On wings of song | On the wings of song | |
Richard Cowper | The Road to Corlay | At the gate of twilight | |
John Varley | titanium | The satellite | |
1970s | |||
year | author | Original title | German edition |
1979 | Vonda N. McIntyre | Dreamsnake | The dream snake |
Tom Reamy | Blind Voices | Blind voices | |
CJ Cherryh | The Faded Sun: Kesrith | Kesrith - the dying sun | |
Gore Vidal | Kalki | ||
Gardner Dozois | Strangers | Strangers | |
1978 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | Gateway |
Terry Carr | Cirque | Cirque | |
Gregory Benford | In the Ocean of Night | In the sea of the night | |
David Gerrold | Moonstar Odyssey | Under the moon star | |
Richard A. Lupoff | Sword of Demon | ||
1977 | Frederik Pohl | Man plus |
Human + also: The plus human |
Larry Niven | inferno | The second inferno | |
Jerry Pournelle | |||
Marta Randall | Iceland | Sunken islands | |
Robert Silverberg | Shadrach in the Furnace | Schadrach in the furnace | |
Samuel R. Delany | Triton | Triton | |
Kate Wilhelm | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Birds used to sing here | |
1976 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | The eternal war |
Arthur Byron cover | Autumn Angels | ||
Tanith Lee | The Birthgrave | In the heart of the volcano | |
Alfred Bester | The Computer Connection | The computer and the immortals | |
Samuel R. Delany | Dhalgren | Dhalgren | |
Roger Zelazny | Doorways in the sand | Gates in the desert | |
Ian Watson | The embedding | The Babel Syndrome | |
Vonda N. McIntyre | The Exile Waiting | The ashes of the earth | |
Joanna Russ | The Female Man |
A while away, too: Women's Planet |
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Michael Bishop | A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire | Flame eyes | |
Barry N. Malzberg | Guernica Night | ||
Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Heritage of Hastur | Hastur's legacy | |
Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | The invisible cities | |
Poul Anderson | A midsummer tempest | A midsummer storm | |
Katherine MacLean | The Missing Man | The Esper and the City | |
Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle | The Mote in God's Eye | The splinter in the eye of God | |
EL Doctorow | ragtime | ragtime | |
Robert Silverberg | The Stochastic Man | The seer | |
1975 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Dispossessed |
Free spirits too: The dispossessed too: Planet of the have-nots |
Thomas M. Disch | 334 | Angoulême | |
Philip K. Dick | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Another world | |
TJ bass | The Godwhale | The god whale | |
1974 | Arthur C. Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama |
Rendezvous with 31/439 also: Rendezvous with Rama |
Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | The ends of the parabola | |
David Gerrold | The Man Who Folded Himself | Time machines work differently | |
Poul Anderson | The People of the Wind | Terra versus Avalon | |
Robert A. Heinlein | Time Enough for Love | The Lives of Lazarus Long | |
1973 | Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves | Lunatico or The Next World |
Robert Silverberg | The Book of Skulls | Brotherhood of the Immortals | |
Robert Silverberg | Dying inside | It dies in me | |
Norman Spinrad | The Iron Dream | The steel dream | |
John Brunner | The Sheep Look Up | Sheep look up | |
George Alec Effinger | What Entropy Means to Me | ||
David Gerrold | When HARLIE Was One | I am Harlie | |
1972 | Robert Silverberg | A time of changes | Time of change |
Poul Anderson | The Byworlder | The outworlder | |
RA Lafferty | The Devil is Dead | ||
TJ bass | Half past human | The ant culture | |
Ursula K. Le Guin | The Lathe of Heaven | The Scourge of Heaven | |
Kate Wilhelm | Margaret and I | Margaret and me | |
1971 | Larry Niven | Ringworld | Ringworld |
Joanna Russ | And Chaos Died | And the chaos died | |
RA Lafferty | Fourth mansions | ||
David G. Compton | The Steel Crocodile | The electric crocodile | |
Robert Silverberg | Tower of Glass | Children of the retort | |
Wilson Tucker | The Year of the Quiet Sun | The year of the silent sun | |
1970 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness |
The left hand of darkness too: winter planet |
Norman Spinrad | Bow Jack Barron | Champion Jack Barron | |
Roger Zelazny | Isle of the Dead | The island of the dead | |
John Brunner | The Jagged Orbit |
Another crazy orbit : the Gottschalk plot |
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Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five | Schlachthof 5 or The Children's Crusade | |
Robert Silverberg | Up the line | Time patrol | |
1960s | |||
year | author | Original title | German edition |
1969 | Alexei Panshin | Rite of Passage | World between the stars |
James Blish | Black Easter | The sorcerer | |
Philip K. Dick | Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Do androids dream of electric sheep? also: Blade Runner |
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Robert Silverberg | The Masks of Time | Guest from the future | |
RA Lafferty | Past Master | Astrobe, the golden planet | |
Joanna Russ | Picnic on Paradise | Alyx | |
John Brunner | Stand on Zanzibar | Morning world | |
1968 | Samuel R. Delany | The Einstein Intersection | Einstein, Orpheus and others |
Piers Anthony | Chthon | Chthon or the Planet of the Damned | |
Hayden Howard | The Eskimo Invasion | ||
Roger Zelazny | Lord of Light | Lord of Light | |
Robert Silverberg | Thorns | The song of the neurons | |
1967 | Samuel R. Delany | Babylon-17th | Babylon-17th |
Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | Charlie | |
Robert A. Heinlein | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress |
Revolt on Luna too: The moon is a bitter lover too: moon tracks |
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1966 | Frank Herbert | Dune | The desert planet |
Clifford D. Simak | All Flesh is Grass | Flowers from another world | |
Theodore L. Thomas / Kate Wilhelm | The clone | The clone - creature by chance | |
Philip K. Dick | Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb |
After the bomb, too: children of the Holocaust |
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James White | The Escape Orbit | Prison in space | |
Thomas M. Disch | The Genocides | The fire devils | |
William S. Burroughs | Nova Express | Nova Express | |
Keith Laumer | A Plague of Demons | War on the moon | |
Avram Davidson | Rogue Dragon | ||
GC Edmondson | The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream | Small ship in the flow of time | |
Poul Anderson | The Star Fox | Buccaneers in space | |
Philip K. Dick | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | The three stigmata of the Palmer Eldritch |
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