Nebula Award

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The Nebula Award has been presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) since 1966 for the best science fiction and fantasy texts published in the United States in the previous two years . In 2009 the rules were changed so that only publications from the previous year can be selected.

Categories

All annual information relates to the year of the award.

Best Novel

Best Novella (best short novel)

This category includes works with a length of 17,500 to 40,000 words.

year author Original title German title
2019 Aliette de Bodard The Tea Master and the Detective
2018 Martha Wells The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red
2017 Seanan McGuire Every Heart a Doorway
2016 Nnedi Okorafor Binti
2015 Nancy Kress Yesterday's Kin
2014 Vylar caftan The Weight of the Sunrise
2013 Nancy Kress After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
2012 Kij Johnson The Man Who Bridged the Mist The bridge over the fog
2011 Rachel Swirsky The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window
2010 Kage Baker The Women of Nell Gwynne's
2009 Catherine Asaro The Spacetime Pool
2008 Nancy Kress Fountain of Age
2007 James Patrick Kelly Burn Flames
2006 Kelly Link Magic for Beginners Magic for beginners
2005 Walter Jon Williams The Green Leopard Plague
2004 Neil Gaiman Coraline Coraline - Trapped behind the mirror
2003 Richard Chwedyk Bronte's Egg
2002 Jack Williamson The Ultimate Earth Chapter 4 The Ultimate Earth of the novel The End Times Engineers
2001 Linda Nagata Goddesses
2000 Ted Chiang Story of Your Life Story of your life
1999 Sheila Finch Reading the bones
1998 Jerry Oltion Abandon in Place The spirit of hope
1997 Jack then Da Vinci Rising
1996 Elizabeth hand Last Summer at Mars Hill The last summer in Mars Hill
1995 Mike Resnick Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge Seven views of the Olduvai Gorge
1994 Jack Cady The Night We Buried Road Dog The night we buried the piste stallion
1993 James Morrow City of Truth The city of truth
1992 Nancy Kress Beggars in Spain Beggar in Spain
1991 Joe Haldeman The Hemingway Hoax The Hemingway hoax
1990 Lois McMaster Bujold The Mountains of Mourning The mountains of sorrow
1989 Connie Willis The Last of the Winnebagos The last Winnebago
1988 Kim Stanley Robinson The Blind Geometer The blind geometer
1987 Lucius Shepard R&R R&R ; also as a leave from the front
1986 Robert Silverberg Sailing to Byzantium Sea trip to Byzantium
1985 John Varley Press Enter Terminal ; also press as input and press enter
1984 Greg Bear Hardfought The enemy in me
1983 John Kessel Another orphan Another orphan
1982 Poul Anderson The Saturn Game The Saturn game
1981 Suzy McKee Charnas Unicorn tapestry Chapter 3 The unicorn tapestry of the novel The Vampire Baldachin
1980 Barry B. Longyear Enemy mine You, my enemy ; also as my dear enemy
1979 John Varley The Persistence of Vision The sluggishness of the eye
1978 Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson Stardance Part 1 of the novel  Star Dance
1977 James Tiptree, Jr. Houston, Houston, Do You Read? Houston, Houston, please report!
1976 Roger Zelazny Home is the hangman The executioner has returned home ; The executioner is also at home
1975 Robert Silverberg Born with the Dead Born with the dead
1974 Gene Wolfe The Death of Doctor Island The death of Doctor Eiland ; also as The Death of Dr. Iceland
1973 Arthur C. Clarke A meeting with Medusa Titan fight ; also as Medusa , Encounter with Medusa and A Meeting with Medusa
1972 Katherine MacLean The Missing Man The missing man
1971 Fritz Leiber I'll mead in Lankhmar Fateful encounter in Lankhmar ; also as fatality in Lankhmar and The House of Thieves
1970 Harlan Ellison A Boy and His Dog A boy and his dog ; also as His best friend and man's best friend
1969 Anne McCaffrey Dragon rider incorporated into the novel The World of Dragons
1968 Michael Moorcock Behold the Man See - a man
1967 Jack Vance The Last Castle The last fortress ; also as The Last Fort and The Last Castle
1966 Brian W. Aldiss The Saliva Tree The saliva tree
Roger Zelazny He Who Shapes The shaper

Best Novelette (Best Narration)

The category includes works with a length of 7,500 to 17,500 words.

year author Original title German title
2019 Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing
2018 Kelly Robson A human stain
2017 William Ledbetter The Long Fall Up
2016 Sarah Pinsker Our Lady of the Open Road
2015 Alaya Dawn Johnson A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i
2014 Aliette de Bodard The waiting stars
2013 Andy Duncan Close encounters
2012 Geoff Ryman What We Found
2011 Eric James Stone That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made
2010 Eugie Foster Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
2009 John Kessel Pride and Prometheus
2008 Ted Chiang The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate The merchant at the alchemist's portal
2007 Peter S. Beagle Two hearts Two hearts
2006 Kelly Link The Faery Handbag The elven handbag
2005 Ellen Klages Basement Magic
2004 Jeffrey Ford The Empire of Ice Cream
2003 Ted Chiang Hell is the Absence of God Hell is the absence of God
2002 Kelly Link Louise's ghost
2001 Walter Jon Williams Daddy's World
2000 Mary A. Turzillo Mars Is No Place for Children
1999 Jane Yolen Lost Girls
1998 Nancy Kress The Flowers of Aulit Prison
1997 Bruce Holland Rogers Lifeboat on a Burning Sea Lifeboat on burning lake
1996 Ursula K. Le Guin Solitude
1995 David Gerrold The Martian Child
1994 Charles Sheffield Georgia on My Mind The South Georgia adding machine
1993 Pamela Sargent Danny Goes to Mars Danny flies to Mars
1992 Mike Conner Guide Dog Guide dog
1991 Ted Chiang Tower of Babylon The Tower of Babel
1990 Connie Willis At the Rialto
1989 George Alec Effinger Schrödinger's kitten Schrödinger's Cat
1988 Pat Murphy Rachel in Love Rachel falls in love ; even when Rachel is in love
1987 Kate Wilhelm The Girl Who Fell into the Sky The girl who fell in the sky
1986 George RR Martin Portraits of His Children Pictures of his children
1985 Octavia E. Butler Bloodchild Blood brood ; also as a blood bond
1984 Greg Bear Blood Music The music of the blood ; also as music of the blood and blood music
1983 Connie Willis Fire watch Fire watch
1982 Michael Bishop The Quickening
1981 Howard Waldrop The Ugly Chickens The ugly chickens ; also called The Ugly Chickens
1980 George RR Martin Sand kings Sand kings
1979 Charles L. Grant A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye The light of candles, the unicorn's eye
1978 Raccoona Sheldon The Screwfly Solution The Goldfly Solution ; also as blowflies
1977 Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man The bicentenary
1976 Tom Reamy San Diego Lightfoot Sue San Diego Lightfoot Sue
1975 Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford If the Stars Are Gods If the stars were gods
1974 Vonda N. McIntyre Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand Mist and grass and sand ; also as Of Fog, Grass and Sand and The Snake
1973 Poul Anderson Goat song Goatsong
1972 Poul Anderson The Queen of Air and Darkness The queen of air and darkness ; also as the queen of demons and mistress of air and darkness
1971 Theodore Sturgeon Slow sculpture The slowest sculpture in the world ; also called Slow Growth , The Bonsai Man and The Awakening
1970 Samuel R. Delany Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones Time assumed as a helix of semi-precious stones ; as regarded the time as a spiral of semi-precious stones and time considered a spiral of semi-precious stones
1969 Richard Wilson Mother to the World It goes on, gentlemen ; also as mother of the world and one mother for the earth
1968 Fritz Leiber Gonna roll the bones I have to roll the dice again
1967 Gordon R. Dickson Call Him Lord Call him Lord ; even as you call him lord
1966 Roger Zelazny The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth The doors of his face or The Beast

Best Short Story

The category includes works up to 7,500 words long.

year author Original title German title
2019 Phenderson Djèlí Clark The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
2018 Rebecca Roanhorse Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience ™
2017 Amal El-Mohtar Seasons of Glass and Iron
2016 Alyssa Wong Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
2015 Ursula Vernon Jackalope Wives
2014 Rachel Swirsky If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
2013 Aliette de Bodard Immersion
2012 Ken Liu The Paper Menagerie
2011 Harlan Ellison How Interesting: A Tiny Man
Kij Johnson Ponies
2010 Kij Johnson Save
2009 Nina Kiriki Hoffman Trophy wives
2008 Karen Joy Fowler Always
2007 Elizabeth hand echo
2006 Carol Emshwiller I Live With You
2005 Eileen Gunn Coming to terms
2004 Karen Joy Fowler What I Didn't See
2003 Carol Emshwiller Creature
2002 Severna Park The Cure for Everything
2001 Terry Bisson macs
2000 Leslie What The cost of doing business
1999 Bruce Holland Rogers Thirteen Ways to Water
1998 Jane Yolen Sister Emily's Lightship
1997 Esther M. Friesner A birthday
1996 Esther M. Friesner Death and the Librarian Death and the Librarian
1995 Martha Soukup A Defense of the Social Contracts
1994 Joe Haldeman Graves Graves
1993 Connie Willis Even the Queen Even the queen
1992 Alan Brennert Ma Qui The lost soul
1991 Terry Bisson Bears Discover Fire The bears discover the fire
1990 Geoffrey A. Landis Ripples in the Dirac Sea Shallows in the sea of ​​time ; also as waves in the Dirac Sea
1989 James Morrow Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge Biblical Stories for Adults # 7: The Flood
1988 Kate Wilhelm Forever Yours, Anna With love, Anna
1987 Greg Bear Tangents Tangents
1986 Nancy Kress Out of All Them Bright Stars
1985 Gardner Dozois Morning Child Morning child
1984 Gardner Dozois The Peacemaker
1983 Connie Willis A Letter from the Clearys A letter from the Clearys
1982 Lisa Tuttle The Bone Flute The bone flute
1981 Clifford D. Simak Grotto of the Dancing Deer Grotto of the dancing game
1980 Edward Bryant giANTS The New Mexico Project
1979 Edward Bryant Stone The scissors break on the stone
1978 Harlan Ellison Jeffty Is Five Jeffty is five
1977 Charles L. Grant A crowd of shadows Deadly shadows
1976 Fritz Leiber Catch That Zeppelin! Don't miss the zeppelin!
1975 Ursula K. Le Guin The Day Before the Revolution The day before the revolution
1974 James Tiptree, Jr. Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death Love is the plan, the plan is death ; also called The plan is love and death
1973 Joanna Russ When It Changed When everything changed ; also as a change
1972 Robert Silverberg Good News from the Vatican Good news from the Vatican
1971 none of the nominated stories was declared the winner
1970 Robert Silverberg Passengers The passengers ; also as passengers
1969 Kate Wilhelm The Planners The planners
1968 Samuel R. Delany Aye, and Gomorrah ... And then there was Gomorrah ; also as Yes, and Gomorrah
1967 Richard McKenna The Secret Place The deep land ; also as Helen's fairytale land
1966 Harlan Ellison 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman Repent harlequin! said the tick-tack man

Ray Bradbury Award

This category has officially only existed since 2000. In the 1970s, however, a few films were already awarded prizes. In 1974 Stanley R. Greenberg received the award for the screenplay of … the year 2022… who want to survive , and Woody Allen in 1975 for his film The Sleeper (both under the heading Dramatic Presentation ). In 1977 there was the Dramatic Writing category with the winners Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder for the film Frankenstein Junior . Star Wars received a Special Award in 1978 .

From 2000 and 2009 a prize was awarded in the category Best Script (Best Screenplay) and Best Dramatic Presentation . Since 2010 it has been named the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation after the author Ray Bradbury .

year author Original title German title
2019 Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Spider-Man: A New Universe
2018 Jordan Peele Get out Get out
2017 Eric Heisserer & Denis Villeneuve Arrival Arrival
2016 George Miller & Brendan McCarthy & Nick Lathouris Mad Max: Fury Road Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 James Gunn & Nicole Perlman Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón Gravity Gravity
2013 Benh Zeitlin & Lucy Abilar Beasts of the Southern Wild Beasts of the Southern Wild
2012 Neil Gaiman & Richard Clark Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife Doctor Who : The doctor's wife
2011 Christopher Nolan Inception Inception
2010 Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell District 9 District 9
2009 Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon & Pete Docter WALL-E WALL-E - The last one is cleaning up the earth
2008 Guillermo del Toro Pan's labyrinth Pan's labyrinth
2007 Hayao Miyazaki & Cindy Davis Hewitt & Donald H. Hewitt Howl's Moving Castle Howl's Moving Castle
2006 Joss Whedon Serenity Serenity - escape into new worlds
2005 Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Companions
2002 James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai & Hui-Ling Wang Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Tiger and Dragon
2001 David Howard & Robert Gordon Galaxy Quest Galaxy Quest - Planlessly through space
2000 M. Night Shyamalan The Sixth Sense The Sixth Sense

Game Writing (computer game script)

year author Original title German title
2019 Charlie Brooker Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

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