1995 Nebula Awards®
Presented on the Queen Mary, Long Beach , California, on April 27, 1996
The second of two Nebula presentations held on the Queen Mary, with a little over double the attendance of the first. Sheila Finch organized a welcome party on Friday night and Saturday saw the required Business Meeting, a trip to used bookstore Acres of Books, and a panel on electronic rights. Ace, Bantam, Del Rey, Dell Magazines, Tor, and HarperPrism co-sponsored the pre-banquet cocktail hour. George Alec Effinger served as toastmaster and introduced keynote speaker Bruce Murray, former head of JPL. Bill Rotsler was presented with a lifetime membership and the Service to SFWA Award was presented for the first time to Chuq Von Rospach. Ursula K. Le Guin won a Nebula and noted that she had met her husband aboard the Queen Mary.
Best Novel
- Mother of Storms by John Barnes, published by Tor
- Celestis by Paul Park, published by Tor
- Winner: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer, published by HarperPrism and Analog
- Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams, published by HarperPrism
- Calde of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe, published by Tor
Best Novella
- “Soon Comes Night” by Gregory Benford, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Yaguara” by Nicola Griffith, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- Winner: “Last Summer of Mars Hill” by Elizabeth Hand, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Bibi” by Mike Resnick and Susan Shwartz, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Mortimer Gray’s History of Death” by Brian Stableford, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Best Novelette
- “The Resurrection Man’s Legacy” by Dale Bailey, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Tea and Hamsters” by Michael Coney, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Jesus at the Bat” by Esther M. Friesner, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Home for Christmas” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Think Like a Dinosaur” by James Patrick Kelly, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- Winner: “Solitude” by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “When the Old Gods Die” by Mike Resnick, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Best Short Story
- “Alien Jane” by Kelley Eskridge
- Winner: “Death and the Librarian” by Esther M. Friesner, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Grass Dancer” by Owl Goingback
- “The Narcissus Plague” by Lisa Goldstein, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Kingdom of Cats and Birds” by Geoffrey A. Landis, published by Science Fiction Age
- “The Lincoln Train” by Maureen F. McHugh, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Short Timer” by Dave Smeds, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction