…Where Angels Fear to TreadAllen Steele
…Where Angels Fear to Tread
by Allen Steele
Novella · 1997
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
A 1997 science fiction novella by Allen Steele. Hugo and Locus Award winner; Nebula recognition.
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Nebula Award science fiction books
Find science fiction novels and novellas recognized by the Nebula Awards, from winning works to finalists worth exploring.
The Nebulas are selected by eligible members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Award records here retain SFADB ceremony years, which can differ from eligibility years on the official Nebula site. The library focuses on science fiction novels and novellas. Official award site ↗
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2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Novel · 2012
Nebula winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognition
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between.
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai
by Roger Zelazny
Novella · 1985
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai is a science fiction novella by American writer Roger Zelazny, originally published in the July 1985 issue of the Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1986 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1985.
334
by Thomas M. Disch
Novel · 1972
Nebula recognition
334 is a 1972 science fiction work by American writer Thomas M. Disch. It is commonly treated as a novel, though reference works and bibliographic sources describe it as a linked-story collection or fix-up.
A Boy and His Dog
by Harlan Ellison
Novella · 1969
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war.
A Civil Campaign
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Novel · 1999 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Miles Vorkosigan launches a campaign to win the heart of Ekatarina, whose former husband died as a result of Miles' investigations in the book Komarr , by the same author.
A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1999
Hugo winnerClarke recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set 30,000 years previous) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1992
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology…
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
by Michael Bishop
Novel · 1975
Nebula recognition
A 1975 science fiction novel by Michael Bishop. Nebula recognition.
A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark
Novel · 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after…
A Meeting with Medusa
by Arthur C. Clarke
Novella · 1971
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
A Meeting with Medusa is a science fiction novella by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1971 and has since been included in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Eight as well as several collections of Clarke's writings.
A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2019
Hugo winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
Poetry, politics, and a murder at the heart of an irresistible empire.
A Million Open Doors
by John Barnes
Novel · 1992
Nebula recognitionClarke recognition
Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures. But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan.
A Momentary Taste of Being
by James Tiptree Jr.
Novella · 1975
Nebula recognition
"A Momentary Taste of Being" is a science fiction novella written by Alice Bradley Sheldon, published under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. in the 1975 anthology The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction (also featuring stories by Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin).
A Plague of Demons
by Keith Laumer
Novel · 1965
Nebula recognition
A 1965 science fiction novel by Keith Laumer. Nebula recognition.
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
by Becky Chambers
Novella · 2022
Locus winnerNebula recognition
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a 2022 solarpunk novella written by American author Becky Chambers and published by Tor.com on July 12, 2022. It is the second book in the Monk & Robot series, preceded by A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021).
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Novella · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A tea monk meets a robot. The big question is what people actually need.
A Roll of the DiceCatherine Asaro
A Roll of the Dice
by Catherine Asaro
Novella
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Catherine Asaro. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
A Song for a New Day
by Sarah Pinsker
Novel · 2019
Nebula winner
In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star.
A Song for Lya
by George R. R. Martin
Novella · 1974
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"A Song For Lya" is a science fiction novella by American writer George R.R. Martin. It was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1975.
A Style in TreasonJames Blish
A Style in Treason
by James Blish
Novella
Nebula recognition
A science fiction novella by James Blish. Nebula recognition.
A Time of Changes
by Robert Silverberg
Novel · 1971
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique…
A Touch of Lavender
by Megan Lindholm
Novella
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Megan Lindholm. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
A Traveler's TaleLucius Shepard
A Traveler's Tale
by Lucius Shepard
Novella
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus and Nebula recognition.
A Woman's Liberation
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Novella
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Abandon in Place
by Jerry Oltion
Novella
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
The morning after Neil Armstrong's funeral, a ghostly Saturn V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral.
Act One
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2010
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A 2010 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2012
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race.
Against Infinity
by Gregory Benford
Novel · 1983
Nebula recognition
On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede (one of the moons of Jupiter), a man and a boy are on a deadly hunt. Their prey is the Aleph-- an unknowable alien artifact that roamed and ruled Ganymede for countless millennia.
Air
by Geoff Ryman
Novel · 2005
Clarke winnerNebula recognition
Air, also known as Air: Or, Have Not Have, is a 2005 novel by Geoff Ryman.
Alice Payne Arrives
by Kate Heartfield
Novella · 2018
Nebula recognition
"Alice Payne Arrives is the story of a time traveling thief turned reluctant hero in this science fiction adventure"--Amazon.
All Flesh Is Grass
by Clifford D. Simak
Novel · 1965
Nebula recognition
Millville, USA. A small town like countless others, with people who assume that life as we know it is the only kind of life.
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2017
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
It hacked its programming. It would really rather watch television.
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself.
AmnesiaJack Dann
Amnesia
by Jack Dann
Novella
Nebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Jack Dann. Nebula recognition.
Ancient Shores
by Jack McDevitt
Novel · 1996
Nebula recognition
It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up.
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2013
Clarke winnerHugo winnerNebula winner
A starship’s intelligence. One remaining body. A very personal reckoning.
Ancillary Mercy
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2015
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship.
Ancillary Sword
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2014
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
And Chaos Died
by Joanna Russ
Novel · 1970
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
And Chaos Died (1970) is a science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ. Its setting is a dystopian projection of modern society, in which Earth's population has continued to grow, with the effects somewhat mitigated by advanced technology. The novel was nominated for the 1970 Nebula Award.
And Then There Were (N-One)
by Sarah Pinsker
Novella · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"And Then There Were (N-One)" is a 2017 science fiction/murder mystery novella by Sarah Pinsker. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine. It was republished in the collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
by Premee Mohamed
Novella · 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winner
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House.
Annabel Lee
by Nancy Kress
Novella
Nebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Nebula recognition.
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
Novel · 2014
Nebula winner
An expedition enters a landscape that does not want to be understood.
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2019
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844).
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana
by Michael Bishop
Novella
Nebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Nebula recognition.
April Fool's Day Forever
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella
Nebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Kate Wilhelm. Nebula recognition.
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