1992 Nebula Awards®
Presented at Holiday Crowne Plaza, New Orleans, Louisiana on April 17, 1993
There were no parties and no hospitality suite other than the official Friday night reception. The banquet had fewer than 100 attendees and less than 30 attended the Business Meeting on Sunday morning. Two science panels were held on Saturday afternoon. Connie Willis served as toastmaster and the guest speaker was Cajun comedian A. J. Smith. The banquet was carried live (via text) on Genie. Somebody asked a committee person where the traditional SFWA post-banquet party was. They looked blank and pointed toward the French Quarter.
Best Novel
- A Million Open Doors by John Barnes, published by Tor
- Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler, published by Henry Holt
- China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh, published by Tor
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, published by Tor
- Winner: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, published by Bantam Spectra
- Briar Rose by Jane Yolen, published by Tor
Best Novella
- “Silver or Gold” by Emma Bull
- “The Territory” by Bradley Denton, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Winner: “City of Truth” by James Morrow, published by St. Martin’s
- “Protection” by Maureen F. McHugh, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Contact” by Jerry Oltion and Lee Goodloe
- “Barnacle Bill the Spacer” by Lucius Shepard, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Griffin’s Egg” by Michael Swanwick
Best Novelette
- “Matter’s End” by Gregory Benford
- “The July Ward” by S.N. Dyer, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Honeycrafters” by Carolyn Gilman
- Winner: “Danny Goes to Mars” by Pamela Sargent
- “Suppose They Gave a Peace” by Susan Shwartz
- “Prayers on the Wind” by Walter Jon Williams
Best Short Story
- “Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats” by Michael Bishop, published by Omni
- “Lennon Spex” by Paul Di Filippo, published by Amazing Stories
- “The Mountain to Mohammed” by Nancy Kress, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Vinland the Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Arbitrary Placement of Walls” by Martha Soukup, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- Winner: “Even the Queen” by Connie Willis, published by Asimov’s Magazine