The Fatal Fulfillment
Novella · 1970
Nebula recognition
A 1970 science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. 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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The Female Man
by Joanna Russ
Novel · 1975
Nebula recognition
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1972
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la…
The Fifth Season
Novel · 2015 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
The world is ending again. This time, the earth has a voice.
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1974
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
A soldier returns from battle to a world that has moved on without him.
The Forge of God
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1987
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.
The Fountain of Age
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2007
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
A 2007 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Nebula Award winner; Hugo recognition.
The Fountains of Paradise
Novel · 1978
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
The Funeral March of the Marionettes
Novella · 1997
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 1997 science fiction novella by Adam-Troy Castro. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
The Gallery of His DreamsKristine Kathryn Rusch
The Gallery of His Dreams
Novella · 1991
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 1991 science fiction novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
The Genocides
Novel · 1965
Nebula recognition
The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch, first published by Berkley Books as a Berkley Medallion paperback. It was Disch's first novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel for 1965.
The Giants of the Violet SeaEugenia Triantafyllou
The Giants of the Violet Sea
Novella · 2021
Nebula recognition
A 2021 science fiction novella by Eugenia Triantafyllou. Nebula recognition.
The God Engines
by John Scalzi
Novella · 2009 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Devoted to the Bishopry Militant and to his crew, ship captain Ean Tephe is given a secret mission to a hidden land.
The God House
Novella · 1971
Nebula recognition
A 1971 science fiction novella by Keith Roberts. Nebula recognition.
The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1972
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
The year is 2100 A.D.… And Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy.
The Godwhale
by T. J. Bass
Novel · 1973
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
Rorqual Maru was her name. She was a harvester - a vast plankton rake without a crop, abandoned by Earth society when the seas died. Part whale, part ship, and well over 600 feet long, she was left to rot in the sterile ocean.
The Gold at the Starbow's End
Novella · 1972
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT... ... the eight young astronauts, men and women, who were sent off to colonize a non-existent planet near Alpha Centauri while Washington disintegrated with revolution?
The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis
Novella · 1983 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula recognition
A 1983 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Nebula recognition.
The Green Leopard Plague
Novella · 2004
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
"The Green Leopard Plague" is a 2004 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction. In 2010, Night Shade Books republished it in The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (ISBN 978-1597801775). It also appears in The Best of Walter Jon Williams collection.
The Greening of Bed-Stuy
Novella · 1984
Nebula recognition
A 1984 science fiction novella by Frederik Pohl. Nebula recognition.
The Handmaid's Tale
Novel · 1985
Clarke winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A woman’s account of life inside a state that claims ownership of her.
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Novella · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Locus recognitionNebula recognitionHugo recognition
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 is an alternate history science fantasy police procedural novella by American novelist P. Djèlí Clark. It was first published by Tor.com in 2019.
The Helper and His Hero
Novella · 2007 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula recognition
A 2007 science fiction novella by Matthew Hughes. Nebula recognition.
The Hemingway Hoax
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 1990
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.
The Heritage of Hastur
Novel · 1975
Nebula recognition
THE EPIC of DARKOVER Described as "Bradley's best novel" by Locus, THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR, longest and most intricate of the Darkover books, is a brilliant epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of…
The Ice Owl
Novella · 2012
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 2012 science fiction novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
The Infinity Box
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella · 1971
Nebula recognition
The Infinity Box is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. It was reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1976; a British edition was published by Arrow Books in 1979, and a French translation, Le Village, appeared in 1987.
The Integral Trees
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1983
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in 1987.
The Iron Dream
Novel · 1972
Nebula recognition
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad. The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents a post-apocalyptic adventure tale entitled Lord of the Swastika, written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler shortly before his death in 1953.
The Jagged Orbit
by John Brunner
Novel · 1969
Nebula recognition
Summer in 2014. Morning. The City Council of Washington, D.C. ignores yet another request to remove the paint from the facade of the Black House. Lyla Clay, pythoness, finds her apartment house comweb stuffed with advertising satches that will overload her garbage drain.
The Journal of Nicholas the American
Novel · 1986
Nebula recognition
College student Nicholas Dal shares the family talent --- he's a tele-empath who experiences the emotions of others. And overpowering emotion can induce seizures. So Nicholas has lived alone and dull with vodka.
The Last Castle
by Jack Vance
Novella · 1966
Nebula winner
A group of aristocratic, decadent earth men and women try to survive a revolt on the part of the alien races enslaved by them.
The Last Hawk
Novel · 1997
Nebula recognition
The Last Hawk is a 1997 science fiction novel by Catherine Asaro.
The Last of the Winnebagos
Novella · 1988
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
"The Last of the Winnebagos" is a short story written by American writer Connie Willis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1988, and reprinted in the short story collections Impossible Things (1994) and The Best of Connie Willis (2013).
The Lathe of Heaven
Novel · 1971
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Novel · 1969
Hugo winnerNebula winner
An icy world. A solitary envoy. A radical question about being human.
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2010
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
The story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software.
The Man Who Bridged the Mist
by Kij Johnson
Novella · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a science fiction/fantasy novella by Kij Johnson.
The Man Who Ended History: A DocumentaryKen Liu
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
by Ken Liu
Novella · 2011
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 2011 science fiction novella by Ken Liu. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
The Man Who Folded Himself
Novel · 1973
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974.
The Man Who Melted
by Jack Dann
Novel · 1984
Nebula recognition
The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave New World and 1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into our own future -- a future ruled by corporations that control deadly and powerful forms of mass…
The Many-Colored Land
by Julian May
Novel · 1981
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness.
The Masks of Time
Novel · 1968
Nebula recognition
Vornan-19 fell from the sky, naked, and landed on the Spanish steps in Rome on Christmas afternoon toward the end of the Millennium. And for Leo Garfield things would never be the same.
The Mercurymen
by C. C. MacApp
Novella · 1965
Nebula recognition
A 1965 science fiction novella by C. C. MacApp. Nebula recognition.
The Mimicking of Known Successes
by Malka Older
Novella · 2023
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
On a remote outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university, and Mossa's former girlfriend
The Missing Man
Novella · 1971
Nebula winner
A 1971 science fiction novella by Katherine MacLean. Nebula Award winner.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Novel · 1965
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison.
The Mote In God's Eye
by Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Novel · 1974
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the peak catastrophe is known as the "crazy eddy point".
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