Nebula Award
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Nebula Awards, 61 Books
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels. A work of fiction is considered a novel by the organization if it is 40,000 words or longer; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths, in the categories of short story, novelette, and novella. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration, a novel must have been published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible, provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition.[1] The Award has been given annually since 1966.
Electorate size ≈ 2,500, but only a fraction of those people vote each year. The vote counts are not listed. We can conservatively assume that 1/8 of the electorate size vote, so around 300.
This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site over 3 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | American | English | |
| 7126 | Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany | 1966 | American | English | |
| 711 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 1959 | American | English | |
| 2432 | The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delany | 1967 | American | English | |
| 11111 | Rite of Passage | Alexei Panshin | 1968 | American | English | |
| 363 | The Left Hand Of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | American | English | |
| 2237 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | 1970 | American | English | |
| 11111 | A Time of Changes | Robert Silverberg | 1971 | American | English | |
| 7793 | The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | 1972 | American | English | |
| 5937 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1973 | British | English | |
| 553 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1974 | American | English | |
| 2433 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 1974 | American | English | |
| 8535 | Man Plus | Frederik Pohl | 1976 | American | English | |
| 7152 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1977 | American | English | |
| 7799 | Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1978 | American | English | |
| 7878 | The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | 1979 | British | English | |
| 8182 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | 1980 | American | English | |
| 3491 | The Claw Of The Conciliator | Gene Wolfe | 1981 | American | English | |
| 9720 | No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop | 1982 | American | English | |
| 7685 | Startide Rising | David Brin | 1983 | American | English | |
| 893 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | American, Canadian | English | |
| 2606 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 1985 | American | English | |
| 7580 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 1986 | American | English | |
| 11111 | The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy | 1986 | American | English | |
| 8988 | Falling Free | Lois McMaster Bujold | 1988 | American | English | |
| 11111 | The Healer's War | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough | 1988 | American | English | |
| 8535 | Tehanu | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1990 | American | English | |
| 11111 | Stations of the Tide | Michael Swanwick | 1991 | American | English | |
| 6896 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | 1992 | American | English | |
| 4666 | Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1992 | American | English | |
| 11111 | Moving Mars | Greg Bear | 1993 | American | English | |
| 9720 | The Terminal Experiment | Robert J. Sawyer | 1995 | Canadian | English | |
| 11111 | Slow River | Nicola Griffith | 1995 | British | English | |
| 9720 | The Moon and the Sun | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1997 | American | English | |
| 7878 | Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman | 1997 | American | English | |
| 1971 | Parable of the Talents | Octavia E. Butler | 1998 | American | English | |
| 4203 | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear | 1999 | American | English | |
| 11111 | The Quantum Rose | Catherine Asaro | 2000 | American | English | |
| 2192 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | 2001 | British | English | |
| 11111 | The Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | 2003 | American | English | |
| 8913 | Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2003 | American | English | |
| 11111 | Camouflage | Joe Haldeman | 2004 | American | English | |
| 11111 | Seeker | Jack McDevitt | 2005 | American | English | |
| 4767 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | 2007 | American | English | |
| 11111 | Powers | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7799 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7878 | Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7685 | Among Others | Jo Walton | 2011 | British | English | |
| 11111 | 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | American | English | |
| 5701 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | 2013 | American | English | |
| 4534 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7923 | Uprooted | Naomi Novik | 2015 | American | English | |
| 6090 | All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | 2016 | American | English | |
| 5275 | The Stone Sky | N. K. Jemisin | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6820 | The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11111 | A Song for a New Day | Sarah Pinsker | 2019 | American | English | |
| 7799 | Network Effect | Martha Wells | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7685 | A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark | 2021 | American | English | |
| 9720 | Someone You Can Build A Nest In | John Wiswell | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 5687 | The Saint Of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 4604 | Babel | R. F. Kuang | 2022 | American | English |