| Nebula Award for Best Novella | |
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The Nebula Award trophy |
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| Awarded for | The best science fiction or fantasy story of between 17,500 and 40,000 words published in the prior calendar year |
| Presented by | Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America |
| First awarded | 1966 |
| Currently held by | Rachel Swirsky ("The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window") |
| Official website | sfwa.org/nebula-awards/ |
The Nebula Awards are given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for the best science fiction or fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year. The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.[1][2] The Nebula Award for Best Novella is given each year for science fiction or fantasy novellas published in English or translated into English and released in the United States or on the internet during the previous calendar year. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novella if it is between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novel category, and for shorter lengths in the short story and novelette categories. The Nebula Award for Best Novella has been awarded annually since 1966. Novellas published by themselves are eligible for the novel award instead if the author requests them to be considered as such.[3]
Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of the SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be a member. Works are nominated each year between November 15 and February 15 by published authors who are members of the organization, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot. Members may then vote on the ballot throughout March, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received.[3] Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then reach the final ballot in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary ballot for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.[4]
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| Year | Winner | Other nominees |
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| 1965 | (tie)
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| 1966 | The Last Castle by Jack Vance |
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| 1967 | Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock |
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| 1968 | Dragonrider by Anne McCaffrey |
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| 1969 | A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison |
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| 1970 | Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber |
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| 1971 | The Missing Man by Katherine Maclean |
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| 1972 | A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke |
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| 1973 | The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe |
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| 1974 | Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg |
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| 1975 | Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny |
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| 1976 | Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr. |
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| 1977 | Stardance by Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson |
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| 1978 | The Persistence of Vision by John Varley |
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| 1979 | Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear |
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| 1980 | Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas |
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| 1981 | The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson |
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| 1982 | Another Orphan by John Kessel |
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| 1983 | Hardfought by Greg Bear |
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| 1984 | Press ENTER by John Varley |
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| 1985 | Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg |
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| 1986 | R&R by Lucius Shepard |
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| 1987 | The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson |
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| 1988 | The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis |
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| 1989 | The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| 1990 | The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman |
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| 1991 | Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress |
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| 1992 | City of Truth by James Morrow |
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| 1993 | The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady |
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| 1994 | Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick[5] |
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| 1995 | Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand |
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| 1996 | Da Vinci Rising by Jack Dann |
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| 1997 | Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion |
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| 1998 | Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch |
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| 1999 | Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang |
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| 2000 | Goddesses by Linda Nagata |
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| 2001 | The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson |
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| 2002 | Bronte's Egg by Richard Chwedyk |
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| 2003 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman |
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| 2004 | The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams |
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| 2005 | Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link[6] |
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| 2006[7] | Burn by James Patrick Kelly |
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| 2007[8] | Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress[9] |
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| 2008[10] | The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro[11] |
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| 2009[12] | The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker[13] |
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| 2010[14] | The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky |
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