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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Nebula Award Best Novella Winners

I have stated many times that novellas are my favorite length for an sf story because it gives the author room to explore a single concept in considerable depth. So here is the list of Nebula Award winning Best Novellas. Unlike the novels, these need to be sought out in various anthologies and collections, but the search should be well worthwhile.

Year / Title / Author
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 / "The Saliva Tree" / Brian W. Aldiss
(tie) "He Who Shapes" / Roger Zelazny

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