Nebula Award Winners

Books that WON the prestigious Nebula Award

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These speculative fiction books won Nebula awards -- one of the most prestigious speculative fiction awards given out every year to the best speculative fiction book.

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Ancillary Justice (2014)

by Leckie, Ann

Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie (Book 1 in the Imperial Radch trilogy) won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

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In the 24th century, humanity has spread through the solar system to hollowed-out asteroids, Mercury's moving city and the terraformed worlds. When Alex, the grandmother who raised her, dies, Swan Er Hong, an artist and...

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Among Others (2012)

by Walton, Jo

Morwenna Phelps grew up in the Welsh valleys talking to fairies among the ruins of old factories. After a disaster involving her mother, a witch, she is left with a limp, has lost her twin sister, and is sent to live wit...

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Blackout/all Clear (2011)

by Willis, Connie

BLackout / All Clear by Connie Willis won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

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The Windup Girl (2010)

by Bacigalupi, Paolo

In a future Bangkok, walled in against rising seas and kept alive by a ruthless seed bank, the world's calories are controlled by a few giant corporations. Anderson Lake poses as a factory manager while he hunts for lost...

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Powers (2009)

by Guin, Ursula K. Le

Gavir is a slave in the city of Etra, brought up with the children of the household that owns him and educated like them. He can remember a page of text after reading it once, and he sometimes sees things before they hap...

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Chabon, Michael

In this book, Chabon created a world where Israel had never been founded after World War II. Instead the state of displaced Jews is located in Sitka, Alaska. Chabon used real-life historical documents which suggested jus...

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Seeker (2007)

by Mcdevitt, Jack

Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot Chase Kolpath come across a cup with ancient markings that appears to have come from the Seeker, a colony ship that left Earth thousands of years ago to escape its governmen...

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Camouflage (2006)

by Haldeman, Joe

Millions of years before humans appeared, two immortal shapeshifters, who don't know each other, begin wandering the Earth. One learns and grows more human as it goes. The other lives for violence and chaos.In the presen...

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Paladin Of Souls

by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

Paladin of Souls is the only book I know of featuring a middle-aged, retired queen on a pilgrimage, who is chalked up as mad—though personally I think she's just bored and tired of being shoved aside. Ista is everythin...

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The Speed Of Dark (2004)

by Moon, Elizabeth

Lou Arrendale is an autistic adult in the near future, one of a generation too old to have been treated in childhood. He has a good job finding patterns in data, a circle of fencing friends and an ordered life he enjoys....

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American Gods (2003)

by Gaiman, Neil

American Gods by Neil Gaiman won the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel. "American Gods" is a novel written by Neil Gaiman, first published in 2001. The story follows the character of Shadow Moon, a recently released convi...

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Darwin's Radio (2001)

by Bear, Greg

In the Alps, an anthropologist finds the frozen bodies of a Neanderthal couple and their baby. In the former Soviet Union, investigators examine a mass grave of people whose pregnancies had gone wrong. Molecular biologis...

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Parable Of The Talents (2000)

by Butler, Octavia E.

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler won the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

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Forever Peace (1999)

by Haldeman, Joe

In 2048, soldiers fight a war through remote-controlled robot bodies, and Julian Class, a physicist and a mechanic, operates one through a link wired into his skull. When his platoon is joined in a mind-link, secrets bec...

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The Moon And The Sun (1998)

by Mcintyre, Vonda N.

The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre won the 1998 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

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Slow River (1997)

by Griffith, Nicola

Lore Van Oesterling is the heir to a family that makes bioengineered waste-treatment bacteria. After a failed kidnapping she wakes up naked in an alley, her identity implant cut out. A data thief named Spanner takes her...

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The Terminal Experiment (1996)

by Sawyer, Robert J.

The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer won the 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

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Moving Mars (1995)

by Bear, Greg

Casseia Majumdar grows up in a powerful family on a Mars that is settled, self-governing and increasingly at odds with Earth. As a young politician she is drawn into the dispute, and into a brief and painful affair with...

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Red Mars (1994)

by Robinson, Kim Stanley

In 2026, a hundred colonists set off on the first long voyage to Mars. Among them are John Boone, the first man to walk on the planet, and his rival Frank Chalmers, a schemer who prefers to work behind the scenes.On arri...

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Doomsday Book (1993)

by Willis, Connie

In 2054, Oxford historians send students back in time to study the past. Kivrin Engle, a young historian, is sent to the English countryside in 1320. But a technician falls ill while setting up the drop, and she arrives...

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