Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Best Novel

1985

• Helliconia Winter by Brian W. Aldiss, published by Atheneum. Nominated for Best Novel in 1985
• The Postman by David Brin, published by Bantam Spectra. Nominated for Best Novel in 1985
• The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry N. Malzberg, published by Ballantine Del Rey. Nominated for Best Novel in 1985
• Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling, published by Arbor House. Nominated for Best Novel in 1985
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, published by Tor. Winner, Best Novel in 1985
• Blood Music by Greg Bear, published by Arbor House. Nominated for Best Novel in 1985

1984

• Frontera by Lewis Shiner, published by Baen. Nominated for Best Novel in 1984
• The Integral Trees by Larry Niven, published by Ballantine Del Rey. Nominated for Best Novel in 1984
• Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein, published by Ballantine Del Rey. Nominated for Best Novel in 1984
• The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann, published by Bluejay. Nominated for Best Novel in 1984
• The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Ace. Nominated for Best Novel in 1984
• Neuromancer by William Gibson, published by Ace. Winner, Best Novel in 1984

1983

• Startide Rising by David Brin, published by . Winner, Best Novel in 1983
• Against Infinity by Gregory Benford, published by Timescape. Nominated for Best Novel in 1983
• The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe, published by Timescape. Nominated for Best Novel in 1983
• Lyonesse by Jack Vance, published by Berkley. Nominated for Best Novel in 1983
• Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy, published by Bantam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1983
• The Void Captain’s Tale by Norman Spinrad, published by Timescape. Nominated for Best Novel in 1983

1982

• Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov, published by Doubleday. Nominated for Best Novel in 1982
• Friday by Robert A. Heinlein, published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Nominated for Best Novel in 1982
• Helliconia Spring by Brian W. Aldiss, published by Atheneum. Nominated for Best Novel in 1982
• The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe, published by Timescape. Nominated for Best Novel in 1982
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Phillip K. Dick, published by Timescape. Nominated for Best Novel in 1982
• No Enemy but Time by Michael Bishop, published by Timescape. Winner, Best Novel in 1982

1981

• Little, Big by John Crowley, published by Bantam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1981
• The Many-Colored Land by Julian May, published by Houghton Mifflin. Nominated for Best Novel in 1981
• Radix by A. A. Attanasio, published by Morrow. Nominated for Best Novel in 1981
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, published by Summit. Nominated for Best Novel in 1981
• The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas, published by Simon & Schuster. Nominated for Best Novel in 1981
• The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe, published by Timescape. Winner, Best Novel in 1981

1980

• Timescape by Gregory Benford, published by Simon & Schuster. Winner, Best Novel in 1980
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl, published by Ballantine Del Rey. Nominated for Best Novel in 1980
• Mockingbird by Walter S. Tevis, published by Doubleday. Nominated for Best Novel in 1980
• The Orphan by Robert Stallman, published by Pocket. Nominated for Best Novel in 1980
• The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, published by Simon & Schuster. Nominated for Best Novel in 1980
• The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, published by Dial Press. Nominated for Best Novel in 1980

1979

• The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Winner, Best Novel in 1979
• Jem by Frederik Pohl, published by St. Martin’s. Nominated for Best Novel in 1979
• Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm, published by Harper & Row. Nominated for Best Novel in 1979
• On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and St. Martin’s. Nominated for Best Novel in 1979
• The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper, published by Pocket. Nominated for Best Novel in 1979
• Titan by John Varley, published by Analog and Berkley/Putnam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1979

1978

• Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre, published by Houghton Mifflin. Winner, Best Novel in 1978
• Blind Voices by Tom Reamy, published by Berkley/Putnam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1978
• The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C. J. Cherryh, published by Galaxy Science Fiction and DAW. Nominated for Best Novel in 1978
• Kalki by Gore Vidal, published by Random House. Nominated for Best Novel in 1978
• Strangers by Gardner Dozois, published by Berkley/Putnam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1978

1977

• Cirque by Terry Carr, published by Bobbs-Merrill. Nominated for Best Novel in 1977
• In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford, published by Dial Press. Nominated for Best Novel in 1977
• Moonstar Odyssey by David Gerrold, published by NAL/Signet. Nominated for Best Novel in 1977
• Sword of the Demon by Richard Lupoff, published by Harper & Row. Nominated for Best Novel in 1977
• Gateway by Frederik Pohl, published by Galaxy Science Fiction and St. Martin’s. Winner, Best Novel in 1977

1976

• Man Plus by Frederik Pohl, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Random House. Winner, Best Novel in 1976
• Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published by Pocket. Nominated for Best Novel in 1976
• Islands by Marta Randall, published by Pyramid. Nominated for Best Novel in 1976
• Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg, published by Analog and Bobbs-Merrill. Nominated for Best Novel in 1976
• Triton by Samuel R. Delany, published by Bantam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1976
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm, published by Harper & Row. Nominated for Best Novel in 1976

1975

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, published by St. Martin’s. Winner, Best Novel in 1975
• Autumn Angels by Arthur Byron Cover, published by Pyramid. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee, published by DAW. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, published by Bantam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester, published by Analog and Berkley. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Embedding by Ian Watson, published by Scribner’s. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Exile Waiting by Vonda N. McIntyre, published by Nelson Doubleday. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ, published by Bantam. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire by Michael Bishop, published by Ballantine. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• Guernica Night by Barry N. Malzberg, published by Bobbs-Merrill. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Heritage of Hastur by Marion Zimmer Bradley, published by DAW. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, published by Harcourt. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• Missing Man by Katherine MacLean, published by Berkley. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published by Simon & Schuster. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, published by Random House. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Harper & Row. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975
• A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson, published by Doubleday. Nominated for Best Novel in 1975

1974

• The Godwhale by T.J. Bass, published by Ballantine. Nominated for Best Novel in 1974
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Phillip K. Dick, published by Doubleday. Nominated for Best Novel in 1974
• 334 by Thomas M. Disch, published by Avon. Nominated for Best Novel in 1974
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harper & Row. Winner, Best Novel in 1974

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