Nebula Award for Best Novelette

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Winners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.

2006:
- "The Language of Moths," by Chris Barzak
- "Walpurgis Afternoon," by Delia Sherman
- "Journey into the Kingdom," by M. Rickert
- "Two Hearts," Peter S. Beagle
- "Little Faces," by Vonda N. McIntyre

2005: "The Faery Handbag", by Kelly Link
- "Flat Diane," by Daniel Abraham
- "Men Are Trouble," by James Patrick Kelly
- "Nirvana High," by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
- "The People of Sand and Slag," by Paolo Bacigalupi

2004: "Basement Magic," by Ellen Klages
- "Zora and the Zombie", by Andy Duncan
- "The Voluntary State," by Christopher Rowe
- "Dry Bones," by William Sanders
- "The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue," by Lois Tilton

2003: "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford
- "The Mask of the Rex" by Richard Bowes
- "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs"
  by Adam-Troy Castro
- "0wnz0red" by Cory Doctorow
- "The Wages of Syntax" by Ray Vukcevich

2002: "Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang
- "The Pagodas of Ciboure" by M. Shayne Bell
- "The Ferryman's Wife" by Richard Bowes
- "Madonna of the Maquiladora" by Gregory Frost
- "The Days Between" by Allen Steele
- "Lobsters" by Charles Stross

2001: "Louise's Ghost" by Kelly Link
- "To Kiss the Star" by Amy Sterling Casil
- "The Pottawatomie Giant" by Andy Duncan
- "Undone" by James Patrick Kelly
- "Auspicious Eggs" by James Morrow
- "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" by William Shunn

2000: "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams
- "Stellar Harvest" by Eleanor Arnason
- "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" by Gardner Dozois
- "Jack Daw's Pack" by Greer Ilene Gilman
- "A Day's Work on the Moon" by Mike Moscoe
- "How the Highland People Came to Be" by Bruce Holland Rogers
- "Generation Gap" by Stanley Schmidt

1999: "Mars Is No Place for Children" by Mary A. Turzillo
- "The Island in the Lake" by Phyllis Eisenstein
- "How to Make Unicorn Pie" by Esther M. Friesner
- "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins
- "Good Intentions" by Stanley Schmidt & Jack McDevitt
- "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling

1998: "Lost Girls" by Jane Yolen
- "The Truest Chill" by Gregory Feeley
- "Time Gypsy" by Ellen Klages
- "The Mercy Gate" by Mark J. McGarry
- "Echea" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Lethe" by Walter Jon Williams

1997: "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" by Nancy Kress
- "The Dog's Story" by Eleanor Arnason
- "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream"
  by James Alan Gardner
- "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson
- "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue" by John Kessel
- "The Copyright Notice Case" by Paul Levinson
- "The Undiscovered" by William Sanders

1996: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers
- "Erase/Record/Play" by John M. Ford
- "Mirror of Lop Nor" by George Guthridge
- "The Chronology Protection Case" by Paul Levinson
- "Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
- "The Perseids" by Robert Charles Wilson
- "After a Lean Winter" by Dave Wolverton

1995: "Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" by Dale Bailey
- "Tea and Hamsters" by Michael G. Coney
- "Jesus at the Bat" by Esther M. Friesner
- "Home for Christmas" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly
- "When the Old Gods Die" by Mike Resnick

1994: "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold
- "Necronauts (story)" by Terry Bisson
- "The Skeleton Key (story)" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- "The Singular Habits of Wasps" by Geoffrey A. Landis
- "The Matter of Seggri" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Nekropolis" by Maureen F. McHugh

1993: "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield
- "England Underway" by Terry Bisson
- "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan
- "The Franchise" by John Kessel
- "Things Not Seen" by Martha Soukup
- "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis

1992: "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent
- "Matter's End" by Gregory Benford
- "The July Ward" by S. N. Dyer
- "The Honeycrafters" by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." by Susan Shwartz
- "Prayers on the Wind" by Walter Jon Williams

1991: "Guide Dog" by Michael Conner
- "Gate of Faces" by Ray Aldridge
- "Black Glass" by Karen Joy Fowler
- "The All-Consuming" by Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier
- "Standing In Line with Mister Jimmy" by James Patrick Kelly
- "The Happy Man" by Jonathan Lethem
- "Getting Real" by Susan Shwartz

1990: "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang
- "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" by Dafydd ab Hugh
- "The Shobies' Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "1/72nd Scale" by Ian R. MacLeod
- "The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick
- "A Time for Every Purpose" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Loose Cannon" by Susan Shwartz
- "Over the Long Haul" by Martha Soukup

1989: "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis
- "Sisters" by Greg Bear
- "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" by Megan Lindholm
- "For I Have Touched the Sky" by Mike Resnick
- "Fast Cars" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg

1988: "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
- "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" by Neal Barrett, Jr.
- "Peaches for Mad Molly" by Steven Gould
- "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" by Ian McDonald
- "The Hob" by Judith Moffett
- "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick
- "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" by Howard Waldrop

1987: "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy
- "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia E. Butler
- "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Dream Baby" by Bruce McAllister
- "Flowers of Edo" by Bruce Sterling
- "Schwarzschild Radius" by Connie Willis

1986: "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm
- "Hatrack River" by Orson Scott Card
- "Listening to Brahms" by Suzy McKee Charnas
- "The Winter Market" by William Gibson
- "Surviving" by Judith Moffett
- "Aymara" by Lucius Shepard
- "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny

1985: "Portraits of His Children" by George R. R. Martin
- "A Gift from the GrayLanders" by Michael Bishop
- "The Fringe" by Orson Scott Card
- "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison
- "Dogfight" by Michael Swanwick & William Gibson
- "The Jaguar Hunter" by Lucius Shepard
- "Rockabye Baby" by S. C. Sykes

1984: "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler
- "Bad Medicine" by Jack Dann
- "Saint Theresa of the Aliens" by James Patrick Kelly
- "The Lucky Strike" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" by Lucius Shepard
- "Trojan Horse" by Michael Swanwick

1983: "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
- "Blind Shemmy" by Jack Dann
- "The Monkey Treatment" by George R. R. Martin
- "Black Air" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Cicada Queen" by Bruce Sterling
- "Slow Birds" by Ian Watson
- "The Sidon in the Mirror" by Connie Willis

1982: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
- "Myths of the Near Future" by J. G. Ballard
- "Understanding Human Behavior" by Thomas M. Disch
- "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
- "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman" by Joanna Russ
- "Swarm" by Bruce Sterling

1981: "The Quickening" by Michael Bishop
- "Sea Changeling" by Mildred Downey Broxon
- "The Thermals of August" by Edward Bryant
- "The Fire When It Comes" by Parke Godwin
- "Mummer Kiss" by Michael Swanwick
- "Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo" by James Tiptree, Jr.

1980: "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop
- "Strata" by Edward Bryant
- "The Way Station" by Stephen King
- "The Feast of Saint Janis" by Michael Swanwick
- "Ginungagap" by Michael Swanwick
- "Beatnik Bayou" by John Varley

1979: "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin
- "The Ways of Love" by Poul Anderson
- "Camps" by Jack Dann
- "The Pathways of Desire" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Angel of Death" by Michael Shea
- "Options" by John Varley

1978: "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L. Grant
- "Mikal's Songbird" by Orson Scott Card
- "Devil You Don't Know" by Dean Ing

1977: "The Screwfly Solution" by Racoona Sheldon, alias of Alice Sheldon
- "Particle Theory" by Edward Bryant
- "A Rite of Spring" by Fritz Leiber
- "The Stone City" by George R. R. Martin
- "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs"
  by Carter Scholz

1976: "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov
- "His Hour Upon the Stage" by Grant Carrington
- "Custer's Last Jump" by Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop
- "In the Bowl" by John Varley

1975: "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy
- "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" by Eleanor Arnason
- "Blooded on Arachne" by Michael Bishop
- "The Custodians" by Richard Cowper
- "The Dybbuk Dolls" by Jack Dann
- "Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman" by Avram Davidson
- "The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhail" by Randall Garrett
- "The New Atlantis" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "A Galaxy Called Rome" by Barry N. Malzberg
- "The Bleeding Man" by Craig Strete
- "Retrograde Summer" by John Varley

1974: "If the Stars Are Gods" by Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford
- "The Rest Is Silence" by Charles L. Grant
- "Twilla" by Tom Reamy

1973: "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre
- "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison
- "Case and the Dreamer" by Theodore Sturgeon
- "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree, Jr.

1972: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson
- "The Animal Fair" by Alfred Bester
- "A Kingdom by the Sea" by Gardner Dozois
- "Basilisk" by Harlan Ellison
- "In the Deadlands" by David Gerrold
- "Patron of the Arts" by William Rotsler
- "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm

1971: "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson
- "A Special Kind of Morning" by Gardner Dozois
- "Mount Charity" by Edgar Pangborn
- "Poor Man, Beggar Man" by Joanna Russ
- "The Encounter" by Kate Wilhelm

1970: "Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon
- "The Asian Shore" by Thomas M. Disch
- "Dear Aunt Annie" by Gordon Eklund
- "The Shaker Revival" by Gerald Jonas
- "Continued on Next Rock" by R. A. Lafferty
- "The Second Inquisition" by Joanna Russ

1969: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany
- "Deeper than the Darkness" by Gregory Benford
- "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Big Flash" by Norman Spinrad

1968: "Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson
- "Total Environment" by Brian W. Aldiss
- "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson
- "The Listeners" by James Gunn
- "The Guerrilla Trees" by H. H. Hollis
- "Once There Was a Giant" by Keith Laumer
- "Final War (novelette)" by Barry N. Malzberg

1967: "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber
- "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" by Harlan Ellison
- "Flatlander" by Larry Niven
- "The Keys to December" by Roger Zelazny
- "This Mortal Mountain" by Roger Zelazny

1966: "Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson
- "Apology to Inky" by Robert M. Green, Jr.
- "An Ornament to His Profession" by Charles L. Harness
- "The Eskimo Invasion" by Hayden Howard
- "This Moment of the Storm" by Roger Zelazny

1965: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny
- "The Shipwrecked Hotel" by James Blish & Norman L. Knight
- "Vanishing Point" by Jonathan Brand
- "102 H-Bombs" by Thomas M. Disch
- "Half a Loaf" by R. C. Fitzpatrick
- "The Decision Makers" by Joseph Green
- "At the Institute" by Norman Kagan
- "The Earth Merchants" by Norman Kagan
- "Laugh Along with Franz" by Norman Kagan
- "The Life of Your Time" by Michael Karageorge
- "Four Ghosts In Hamlet" by Fritz Leiber
- "Small One" by E. Clayton McCarty
- "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" by Mack Reynolds
- "Masque of the Red Shift" by Fred Saberhagen
- "Goblin Night" by James H. Schmitz
- "Planet of Forgetting" by James H. Schmitz
- "Maiden Voyage" by J. W. Schutz
- "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" by Robert Sheckley
- "The Masculinist Revolt" by William Tenn