1996 Nebula Awards®
Presented at Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri on April 19, 1997
Robin Wayne Bailey organized the weekend and included several items in addition to the traditional banquet and business meeting, included multiple booksigning in the mall attached to the hotel, a gambling trip, a reception at a nearby Barnes and Noble, a BBQ, and demonstrations of electronic publications and interactive software. Jane Yolen, whose novel Briar Rose had been banned in Kansas, was the toastmaster and astronaut Bernard Harris, Jr. served as keynote speaker. More photos by Dave Truesdale and Diana Bailey.
Best Novel
- Winner: Slow River by Nicola Griffith, published by Ballantine Del Rey
- The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, published by AvoNova
- Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip, published by Ace
- Expiration Date by Tim Powers, published by Tor
- Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer, published by Analog and Ace
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, published by Bantam Spectra
Best Novella
- Winner: “Da Vinci Rising” by Jack Dann, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “A Woman’s Liberation” by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Blood of the Dragon” by George R.R. Martin, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Time Travelers Never Die” by Jack McDevitt, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Cost to be Wise” by Maureen F. McHugh
- “The Death of Captain Future” by Allen Steele, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Best Novelette
- “Erase/Record/Play” by John M. Ford
- “Mirror of Lop Nor” by George Guthridge
- “The Chronology Protection Case” by Paul Levinson, published by Analog
- Winner: “Lifeboat on a Burning Sea” by Bruce Holland Rogers, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Must and Shall” by Harry Turtledove, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “The Perseids” by Robert Charles Wilson, published by Realms of Fantasy
- “After a Lean Winter” by Dave Wolverton, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Best Short Story
- “In the Pound, Near Breaktime” by Kent Brewster
- Winner: “A Birthday” by Esther M. Friesner, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “The String” by Kathleen Ann Goonan, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Five Fucks” by Jonathan Lethem
- “These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of” by Bruce Holland Rogers
- “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man” by Dean Wesley Smith, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction