Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Best Novella

1982

• “Souls” by Joanna Russ, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1982
• “Unsound Variations” by George R.R. Martin, published by Amazing Stories. Nominated for Best Novella in 1982

1981

• “The Saturn Game” by Poul Anderson, published by Analog. Winner, Best Novella in 1981
• “Amnesia” by Jack Dann. Nominated for Best Novella in 1981
• “In the Western Tradition” by Phyllis Eisenstein, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1981
• “Swarmer, Skimmer” by Gregory Benford, published by SF Digest. Nominated for Best Novella in 1981
• “True Names” by Vernor Vinge. Nominated for Best Novella in 1981
• “The Winter Beach” by Kate Wilhelm, published by Redbook. Nominated for Best Novella in 1981

1980

• “Unicorn Tapestry” by Suzy McKee Charnas. Winner, Best Novella in 1980
• “The Autopsy” by Michael Shea, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1980
• “The Brave Little Toaster” by Thomas M. Disch, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1980
• “Dangerous Games” by Marta Randall, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1980
• “Lost Dorsai” by Gordon R. Dickson. Nominated for Best Novella in 1980
• “There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me” by Avram Davidson. Nominated for Best Novella in 1980

1979

• “Enemy Mine” by Barry B. Longyear, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Winner, Best Novella in 1979
• “The Battle of the Abaco Reefs” by Hilbert Schenck, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1979
• “Fireship” by Joan D. Vinge, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1979
• “Mars Masked” by Frederik Pohl, published by Asimov’s Magazine. Nominated for Best Novella in 1979
• “The Story Writer” by Richard Wilson. Nominated for Best Novella in 1979
• “The Tale of Gorgik” by Samuel R. Delany, published by Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine. Nominated for Best Novella in 1979

1978

• “The Persistence of Vision” by John Varley, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novella in 1978
• “Seven American Nights” by Gene Wolfe. Nominated for Best Novella in 1978

1977

• “Stardance” by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Analog. Winner, Best Novella in 1977
• “Aztecs” by Vonda N. McIntyre. Nominated for Best Novella in 1977

1976

• “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” by James Tiptree Jr.. Winner, Best Novella in 1976
• “The Eyeflash Miracles” by Gene Wolfe. Nominated for Best Novella in 1976
• “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” by Richard Cowper, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1976
• “The Samurai and the Willows” by Michael Bishop, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1976

1975

• “A Momentary Taste of Being” by James Tiptree Jr.. Nominated for Best Novella in 1975
• “The Storms of Windhaven” by Lisa Tuttle and George R.R. Martin, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1975
• “Sunrise West” by William K. Carlson. Nominated for Best Novella in 1975
• “Home is the Hangman” by Roger Zelazny, published by Analog. Winner, Best Novella in 1975

1974

• “Born With the Dead” by Robert Silverberg, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novella in 1974
• “On the Street of the Serpents” by Michael Bishop. Nominated for Best Novella in 1974
• “A Song for Lya” by George R.R. Martin, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1974

1973

• “The White Otters of Childhood” by Michael Bishop, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1973
• “Junction” by Jack Dann, published by Fantastic. Nominated for Best Novella in 1973
• “Death and Designation among the Asadi” by Michael Bishop, published by If. Nominated for Best Novella in 1973
• “Chains of the Sea” by Gardner Dozois. Nominated for Best Novella in 1973
• “The Death of Doctor Island” by Gene Wolfe. Winner, Best Novella in 1973

1972

• “The Word for World Is Forest” by Ursula K. Le Guin. Nominated for Best Novella in 1972
• “With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama” by Richard Lupoff. Nominated for Best Novella in 1972
• “Son of the Morning” by Phyllis Gotlieb, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1972
• “The Gold at the Starbow’s End” by Frederik Pohl, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1972
• “The Fifth Head of Cerberus” by Gene Wolfe. Nominated for Best Novella in 1972
• “A Meeting with Medusa” by Arthur C. Clarke, published by Playboy. Winner, Best Novella in 1972

1971

• “The Plastic Abyss” by Kate Wilhelm. Nominated for Best Novella in 1971
• “The Infinity Box” by Kate Wilhelm. Nominated for Best Novella in 1971
• “The God House” by Keith Roberts. Nominated for Best Novella in 1971
• “Being There” by Jerzy Kosinski, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Nominated for Best Novella in 1971
• “The Missing Man” by Katherine MacLean, published by Analog. Winner, Best Novella in 1971

1970

• “The Snow Women” by Fritz Leiber, published by Fantastic. Nominated for Best Novella in 1970
• “The Thing in the Stone” by Clifford D. Simak, published by If. Nominated for Best Novella in 1970
• “A Style in Treason” by James Blish. Nominated for Best Novella in 1970
• “The Region Between” by Harlan Ellison, published by Galaxy Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1970
• “The Fatal Fulfillment” by Poul Anderson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1970
• “April Fool’s Day Forever” by Kate Wilhelm. Nominated for Best Novella in 1970
• “Ill Met in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novella in 1970

1969

• “To Jorslem” by Robert Silverberg, published by Galaxy Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1969
• “Ship of Shadows” by Fritz Leiber, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1969
• “Probable Cause” by Charles L. Harness. Nominated for Best Novella in 1969
• “Dramatic Mission” by Anne McCaffrey, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1969
• “A Boy and His Dog” by Harlan Ellison. Winner, Best Novella in 1969

1968

• “Nightwings” by Robert Silverberg, published by Galaxy Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1968
• “Lines of Power” by Samuel R. Delany, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1968
• “Hawk among the Sparrows” by Dean McLaughlin, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1968
• “The Day before Forever” by Keith Laumer. Nominated for Best Novella in 1968
• “Dragonrider” by Anne McCaffrey, published by Analog. Winner, Best Novella in 1968

1967

• “Weyr Search” by Anne McCaffrey, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1967
• “Riders of the Purple Wage” by Philip José Farmer. Nominated for Best Novella in 1967
• “If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” by Theodore Sturgeon. Nominated for Best Novella in 1967
• “Hawksbill Station” by Robert Silverberg, published by Galaxy Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1967
• “Behold the Man” by Michael Moorcock. Winner, Best Novella in 1967

1966

• “Clash of the Star-Kings” by Avram Davidson, published by Ace. Nominated for Best Novella in 1966
• “The Alchemist” by Charles L. Harness, published by Analog. Nominated for Best Novella in 1966
• “The Last Castle” by Jack Vance, published by Galaxy Science Fiction. Winner, Best Novella in 1966

1965

• “Under Two Moons” by Frederik Pohl, published by If. Nominated for Best Novella in 1965
• “Rogue Dragon” by Avram Davidson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1965
• “Research Alpha” by A. E. van Vogt and James H. Schmitz, published by If. Nominated for Best Novella in 1965
• “On the Storm Planet” by Cordwainer Smith, published by Galaxy Science Fiction. Nominated for Best Novella in 1965

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