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2015 Nebula Award: science fiction winners and finalists

Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 2015 Nebula Award, winners first, with page counts, reader ratings and a link to each book.

Voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, the Nebula is the writers’ choice. We include its Best Novel and Best Novella winners and finalists. Official award site ↗

← Every Nebula year

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Annihilation

by Jeff VanderMeer

Novel · 2014

Nebula winner

An expedition enters a landscape that does not want to be understood.

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Yesterday's Kin

by Nancy Kress

Novella · 2014

Locus winnerNebula winner

Marianne Jenner, a geneticist and mother of three, has 10 months to try to avert a disaster and keep her family intact after aliens land in New York. "Aliens have landed in New York.

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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.

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Calendrical Regression

by Lawrence M. Schoen

Novella · 2014

Nebula recognition

In December of 2012, the Mayan calendar reached the end of its 13th baktun, completing the Long Count and signaling the end of the world... metaphorically. That was the day of Galactic First Contact, and the beginning of a new age for humans and aliens.

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Coming Home

by Jack McDevitt

Novel · 2014

Nebula recognition

Coming Home is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack McDevitt. It is the seventh in the Alex Benedict series, and was released in November 2014. Coming Home was nominated for the 2014 Nebula award for best novel.

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