1987 Nebula Awards®
Presented at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California on May 21, 1988
David Rappoport, an actor in Time Bandits happened to be staying at the hotel and was spotted reading Omni. When he was told that the editor was on the opposite side of the pool and the Nebulas were taking place, he offered to speak, and became a speaker at the banquet. David Webb, who was supposed to introduce the keynote speaker, launched into a diatribe about how we’ve turned out back on space and the keynote speaker, Louis Friedman spoke on the need to explore Mars, although neither were particularly well received. The Grand Master Award was for Alfred Bester, who had died between being informed of the honor and the Nebula Weekend.
Best Novel
- The Forge of God by Greg Bear, published by Tor
- The Uplift War by David Brin, published by Bantam Spectra and Phantasia Press Inc.
- Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson, published by Doubleday
- When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger, published by Arbor House
- Winner: The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy, published by Tor
- Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe, published by Tor
Best Novella
- “Fugue State” by John M. Ford
- “The Tiger Sweater” by Keith Roberts, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Winner: “The Blind Geometer” by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Asimov’s Magazine and Cheap Street Press
- “The Unconquered Country” by Geoff Ryman, published by Bantam Spectra
- “The Secret Sharer” by Robert Silverberg, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Witness” by Walter Jon Williams
Best Novelette
- “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia E. Butler, published by Omni
- “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight” by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Dream Baby” by Bruce McAllister, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- Winner: “Rachel in Love” by Pat Murphy, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Flowers of Edo” by Bruce Sterling, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Schwarzschild Radius” by Connie Willis
Best Short Story
- “Angel” by Pat Cadigan, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Kid Charlemagne” by Paul Di Filippo, published by Amazing Stories
- “The Faithful Companion at Forty” by Karen Joy Fowler, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Cassandra’s Photographs” by Lisa Goldstein, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Temple to a Minor Goddess” by Susan Shwartz, published by Amazing Stories
- “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers” by Lawrence Watt-Evans, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- Winner: “Forever Yours, Anna” by Kate Wilhelm, published by Omni