Get started ↓Want a shorter science fiction read? Explore novellas recognized by Hugo, Nebula and Locus, including winners, finalists and labeled historical poll selections.
A novella offers a shorter reading experience than a typical novel. The catalog preserves the source award category when organizations classify a work differently. Some novellas are sold inside a collection or magazine, so check the named purchase edition. A later expanded novel can be a different edition or even a different work.
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Novella · 2010 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" is a science fiction/magical realism novella by the American writer Elizabeth Hand. It was first published in the Neil Gaiman/Al Sarrantonio-edited anthology Stories: All-New Tales, in 2010, and subsequently republished in Hand's 2012 anthology Errantry: Strange Stories from Small Beer Press.
by Kij Johnson
Novella · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a science fiction/fantasy novella by Kij Johnson.
by Ken Liu
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Ken Liu. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow. Locus recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 2006
A 2006 science fiction novella by Joe Haldeman. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1977
A 1977 science fiction novella by Robert Thurston. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1972
Why Has John Christian Falkenberg Thrown Millions of People on Dozens of Planets into Turmoil? Because he's given up the brilliant military career he's known since age fifteen to fight on his own.
by C. C. MacApp
Novella · 1965
A 1965 science fiction novella by C. C. MacApp. Nebula recognition.
by Malka Older
Novella · 2023
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
Novella · 1971
A 1971 science fiction novella by Katherine MacLean. Nebula Award winner.
Novella · 1979
Diana's ambition to get a job on the moon started the same day she learned from a child's book of mythology that her namesake was the moon goddess. The time is the late 1980s.
Novella · 1989
The Mountains of Mourning is a science fiction novella by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. It is part of her Vorkosigan Saga, chronologically taking place between the novels The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game. It won the 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 1989.
Novella · 2021
Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace in an increasingly climate-devastated world, ensconced in the UN-owned estate Irislands alongside her longtime friend and companion Delphine.
Novella · 2015
A 2015 science fiction novella by Eugene Fischer. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1985
A 1985 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr.. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2021
The Past Is Red is a 2021 fantasy novella by Catherynne M. Valente. It includes two parts; Part I, The Future Is Blue, was previously published as a novelette, winning the Theodore Sturgeon Award in 2017. Part II is an original work entitled The Past Is Red.
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1980
The Patchwork Girl is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. Part of his Known Space series, it is the fourth of five Gil Hamilton detective stories and the first to be published as a stand-alone novel in 1980.
by John Varley
Novella · 1978
"The Persistence of Vision" is a novella by American writer John Varley. It was included in the anthology of the same name and in The John Varley Reader.
Novella · 1985
A 1985 science fiction novella by George R. R. Martin. Locus recognition.
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella · 1971
A 1971 science fiction novella by Kate Wilhelm. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novella by John C. Wright. Hugo recognition.
Novella · 2002
"The Political Officer" is a science fiction novella by Charles Coleman Finlay. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, in April 2002.
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Charles Coleman Finlay. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by David Brin
Novella · 1982
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.
Novella · 2002
A 2002 science fiction novella by Eleanor Arnason. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by Sofia Samatar. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1971
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" is a science fiction novella by American writer Poul Anderson, set in his History of Rustum fictional universe.
Novella · 1970 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1970 science fiction novella by Harlan Ellison. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Ken Liu
Novella · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novella by Ken Liu. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2000
A 2000 science fiction novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Hugo recognition.
Novella · 1966
"The Saliva Tree" is a science fiction novella by British writer Brian W. Aldiss first published in the September 1965 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It won the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novella (which it shared with "He Who Shapes" by Roger Zelazny in a tie).
Novella · 1976
A 1976 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1981
"The Saturn Game" is a science fiction novella by American writer Poul Anderson, originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in February 1981.
Novella · 1985
"The Scapegoat" is a science fiction novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. It deals with a war in which the two opposing species can not communicate with one another and do not know how to stop the conflict.
Novella · 1987
A 1987 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Algis Budrys
Novella · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novella by Algis Budrys. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Catherine Asaro. Nebula Award winner.
Novella · 1967
A 1967 science fiction novella by Samuel R. Delany. Hugo recognition.
by Jay Lake
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Jay Lake. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
Novella · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novella by George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1979
A 1979 science fiction novella by Richard Wilson. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2010
A 2010 science fiction novella by Geoffrey A. Landis. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1998
A 1998 science fiction novella by Ian R. MacLeod. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novella · 2003
A 2003 science fiction novella by Adam-Troy Castro. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2018
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars.
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Ian McDonald. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novella · 1970
A 1970 science fiction novella by Clifford D. Simak. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2004
A 2004 science fiction novella by Albert E. Cowdrey. Nebula recognition.
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