Science fiction and fantasy literary award
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (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 US. 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. Novels which were expanded forms of previously published stories are eligible, and novellas published individually can be considered as novels if the author requests it.[ 1] The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards .[ 2] [ 3]
Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of SFWA, though the authors nominated do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year by members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Soon after, members are given a month to vote on the ballot, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received.[ 1]
Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format, and nominated works must have been published during that calendar year. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as being one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication, and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Under the previous process, works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work if they felt it was overlooked.[ 4]
During the 59 nomination years, 202 authors have had works nominated, and 46 of these have won (including co-authors and ties). Ursula K. Le Guin has received the most Nebula Awards for Best Novel, with four wins out of six nominations. Joe Haldeman has received the next most: three awards out of four nominations, while nine other authors have each won twice. Jack McDevitt has the most nominations at twelve (with one win), while Poul Anderson and Philip K. Dick tie for having the most nominations without winning an award, at five each.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners and joint winners
Winners and nominees
Year
Author
Novel
Publisher or publication
Ref.
1966
Frank Herbert *
Dune
Chilton Company
[ 5]
Clifford D. Simak
All Flesh is Grass
Doubleday
[ 5]
Theodore L. Thomas
The Clone
Berkley Books
[ 5]
Kate Wilhelm
Philip K. Dick
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
Ace Books
[ 5]
James White
The Escape Orbit
Ace Books
[ 5]
Thomas M. Disch
The Genocides
Berkley Books
[ 5]
William S. Burroughs
Nova Express
Grove Press
[ 5]
Keith Laumer
A Plague of Demons
Berkley Books
[ 5]
Avram Davidson
Rogue Dragon
Ace Books
[ 5]
G. C. Edmondson
The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
Ace Books
[ 5]
Poul Anderson
The Star Fox
Doubleday
[ 5]
Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Doubleday
[ 5]
1967
Samuel R. Delany *
Babel-17
Ace Books
[ 6]
Daniel Keyes *
Flowers for Algernon
Harcourt
[ 6]
Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Putnam Publishing Group
[ 6]
1968
Samuel R. Delany *
The Einstein Intersection
Ace Books
[ 7]
Piers Anthony
Chthon
Ballantine Books
[ 7]
Hayden Howard
The Eskimo Invasion
Ballantine Books
[ 7]
Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
Doubleday
[ 7]
Robert Silverberg
Thorns
Ballantine Books
[ 7]
1969
Alexei Panshin *
Rite of Passage
Ace Books
[ 8]
James Blish
Black Easter
Doubleday
[ 8]
Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Doubleday
[ 8]
Robert Silverberg
The Masks of Time
Ballantine Books
[ 8]
R. A. Lafferty
Past Master
Ace Books
[ 8]
Joanna Russ
Picnic on Paradise
Ace Books
[ 8]
John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar
Doubleday
[ 8]
1970
Ursula K. Le Guin *
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ace Books
[ 9]
Norman Spinrad
Bug Jack Barron
Avon
[ 9]
Roger Zelazny
Isle of the Dead
Ace Books
[ 9]
John Brunner
The Jagged Orbit
Ace Books
[ 9]
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Delacorte Press
[ 9]
Robert Silverberg
Up the Line
Ballantine Books
[ 9]
1971
Larry Niven *
Ringworld
Ballantine Books
[ 10]
Joanna Russ
And Chaos Died
Ace Books
[ 10]
R. A. Lafferty
Fourth Mansions
Ace Books
[ 10]
David G. Compton
The Steel Crocodile
Ace Books
[ 10]
Robert Silverberg
Tower of Glass
Charles Scribner's Sons
[ 10]
Wilson Tucker
The Year of the Quiet Sun
Ace Books
[ 10]
1972
Robert Silverberg *
A Time of Changes
Galaxy Science Fiction
[ 11]
Poul Anderson
The Byworlder
Fantastic
[ 11]
R. A. Lafferty
The Devil is Dead
Avon Publications
[ 11]
T. J. Bass
Half Past Human
Ballantine Books
[ 11]
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven
Amazing Stories
[ 11]
Kate Wilhelm
Margaret and I
Little, Brown and Company
[ 11]
1973
Isaac Asimov *
The Gods Themselves
Galaxy Science Fiction
[ 12]
Robert Silverberg
The Book of Skulls
Charles Scribner's Sons
[ 12]
Robert Silverberg
Dying Inside
Galaxy Science Fiction
[ 12]
Norman Spinrad
The Iron Dream
Avon
[ 12]
John Brunner
The Sheep Look Up
Harper & Row
[ 12]
George Alec Effinger
What Entropy Means to Me
Doubleday
[ 12]
David Gerrold
When HARLIE Was One
Ballantine Books
[ 12]
1974
Arthur C. Clarke *
Rendezvous with Rama
Galaxy Science Fiction
[ 13]
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Viking Press
[ 13]
David Gerrold
The Man Who Folded Himself
Random House
[ 13]
Poul Anderson
The People of the Wind
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
[ 13]
Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough for Love
Putnam Publishing Group
[ 13]
1975
Ursula K. Le Guin *
The Dispossessed
Harper & Row
[ 14]
Thomas M. Disch
334
Avon
[ 14]
Philip K. Dick
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Doubleday
[ 14]
T. J. Bass
The Godwhale
Ballantine Books
[ 14]
1976
Joe Haldeman *
The Forever War
St. Martin's Press
[ 15]
Arthur Byron Cover
Autumn Angels
Pyramid Books
[ 15]
Tanith Lee
The Birthgrave
DAW Books
[ 15]
Alfred Bester
The Computer Connection
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
[ 15]
Samuel R. Delany
Dhalgren
Bantam Books
[ 15]
Roger Zelazny
Doorways in the Sand
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
[ 15]
Ian Watson
The Embedding
Charles Scribner's Sons
[ 15]
Vonda N. McIntyre
The Exile Waiting
Nelson Doubleday
[ 15]
Joanna Russ
The Female Man
Bantam Books
[ 15]
Michael Bishop
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
Ballantine Books
[ 15]
Barry N. Malzberg
Guernica Night
Bobbs-Merrill Company
[ 15]
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Heritage of Hastur
DAW Books
[ 15]
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
[ 15]
Poul Anderson
A Midsummer Tempest
Doubleday
[ 15]
Katherine MacLean
Missing Man
Berkley Books
[ 15]
Larry Niven
The Mote in God's Eye
Simon & Schuster
[ 15]
Jerry Pournelle
E. L. Doctorow
Ragtime
Random House
[ 15]
Robert Silverberg
The Stochastic Man
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
[ 15]
1977
Frederik Pohl *
Man Plus
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
[ 16]
Larry Niven
Inferno
Pocket Books
[ 16]
Jerry Pournelle
Marta Randall
Islands
Pyramid Books
[ 16]
Robert Silverberg
Shadrach in the Furnace
Bobbs-Merrill Company
[ 16]
Samuel R. Delany
Triton
Bantam Books
[ 16]
Kate Wilhelm
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Harper & Row
[ 16]
1978
Frederik Pohl *
Gateway
Galaxy Science Fiction
[ 17]
Terry Carr
Cirque
Bobbs-Merrill Company
[ 17]
Gregory Benford
In the Ocean of Night
Dial Press
[ 17]
David Gerrold
Moonstar Odyssey
New American Library
[ 17]
Richard A. Lupoff
Sword of the Demon
Harper & Row
[ 17]
1979
Vonda N. McIntyre *
Dreamsnake
Houghton Mifflin
[ 18]
Tom Reamy
Blind Voices
Berkley Books
[ 18]
C. J. Cherryh
The Faded Sun: Kesrith
Galaxy Science Fiction
[ 18]
Gore Vidal
Kalki
Random House
[ 18]
Gardner Dozois
Strangers
Berkley Books
[ 18]
1980
Arthur C. Clarke *
The Fountains of Paradise
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
[ 19]
Frederik Pohl
Jem
St. Martin's Press
[ 19]
Kate Wilhelm
Juniper Time
Harper & Row
[ 19]
Thomas M. Disch
On Wings of Song
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
[ 19]
Richard Cowper
The Road to Corlay
Pocket Books
[ 19]
John Varley
Titan
Berkley Books
[ 19]
1981
Gregory Benford *
Timescape
Simon & Schuster
[ 20]
Frederik Pohl
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Del Rey Books
[ 20]
Walter Tevis
Mockingbird
Doubleday
[ 20]
Robert Stallman
The Orphan
Pocket Books
[ 20]
Gene Wolfe
The Shadow of the Torturer
Simon & Schuster
[ 20]
Joan D. Vinge
The Snow Queen
Dial Press
[ 20]
1982
Gene Wolfe *
The Claw of the Conciliator
Timescape Books
[ 21]
John Crowley
Little, Big
Bantam Books
[ 21]
Julian May
The Many-Colored Land
Houghton Mifflin
[ 21]
A. A. Attanasio
Radix
William Morrow and Company
[ 21]
Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker
Summit Books
[ 21]
Suzy McKee Charnas
The Vampire Tapestry
Simon & Schuster
[ 21]
1983
Michael Bishop *
No Enemy But Time
Timescape Books
[ 22]
Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge
Doubleday
[ 22]
Robert A. Heinlein
Friday
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
[ 22]
Brian Aldiss
Helliconia Spring
Atheneum Books
[ 22]
Gene Wolfe
The Sword of the Lictor
Timescape Books
[ 22]
Philip K. Dick
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Timescape Books
[ 22]
1984
David Brin *
Startide Rising
Bantam Books
[ 23]
Gregory Benford
Against Infinity
Timescape Books
[ 23]
Gene Wolfe
The Citadel of the Autarch
Timescape Books
[ 23]
Jack Vance
Lyonesse
Berkley Books
[ 23]
R. A. MacAvoy
Tea with the Black Dragon
Bantam Books
[ 23]
Norman Spinrad
The Void Captain's Tale
Timescape Books
[ 23]
1985
William Gibson *
Neuromancer
Ace Books
[ 24]
Lewis Shiner
Frontera
Baen Books
[ 24]
Larry Niven
The Integral Trees
Del Rey Books
[ 24]
Robert A. Heinlein
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Del Rey Books
[ 24]
Jack Dann
The Man Who Melted
Bluejay Books
[ 24]
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Wild Shore
Ace Books
[ 24]
1986
Orson Scott Card *
Ender's Game
Tor Books
[ 25]
Greg Bear
Blood Music
Arbor House
[ 25]
Tim Powers
Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Ace Books
[ 25]
Brian Aldiss
Helliconia Winter
Atheneum Books
[ 25]
David Brin
The Postman
Bantam Spectra
[ 25]
Barry N. Malzberg
The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
Del Rey Books
[ 25]
Bruce Sterling
Schismatrix
Arbor House
[ 25]
1987
Orson Scott Card *
Speaker for the Dead
Tor Books
[ 26]
William Gibson
Count Zero
Asimov's Science Fiction
[ 26]
Gene Wolfe
Free Live Free
Tor Books
[ 26]
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Houghton Mifflin
[ 26]
Leigh Kennedy
The Journal of Nicholas the American
Atlantic Monthly Press
[ 26]
James K. Morrow
This Is the Way the World Ends
Henry Holt and Company
[ 26]
1988
Pat Murphy *
The Falling Woman
Tor Books
[ 27]
Greg Bear
The Forge of God
Tor Books
[ 27]
Gene Wolfe
Soldier of the Mist
Tor Books
[ 27]
David Brin
The Uplift War
Bantam Spectra
[ 27]
Avram Davidson
Vergil in Averno
Doubleday
[ 27]
George Alec Effinger
When Gravity Fails
Arbor House
[ 27]
1989
Lois McMaster Bujold *
Falling Free
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
[ 28]
Lewis Shiner
Deserted Cities of the Heart
Doubleday Foundation
[ 28]
George Turner
Drowning Towers
Arbor House
[ 28]
Gregory Benford
Great Sky River
Bantam Spectra
[ 28]
William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Bantam Spectra
[ 28]
Orson Scott Card
Red Prophet
Tor Books
[ 28]
Gene Wolfe
The Urth of the New Sun
Tor Books
[ 28]
1990
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough *
The Healer's War
Doubleday Foundation
[ 29]
Poul Anderson
The Boat of a Million Years
Tor Books
[ 29]
Orson Scott Card
Prentice Alvin
Tor Books
[ 29]
John Kessel
Good News From Outer Space
Tor Books
[ 29]
Mike Resnick
Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future
Tor Books
[ 29]
Jane Yolen
Sister Light, Sister Dark
Tor Books
[ 29]
1991
Ursula K. Le Guin *
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
Macmillan Publishers
[ 30]
Valerie Martin
Mary Reilly
Doubleday Foundation
[ 30]
James K. Morrow
Only Begotten Daughter
Doubleday
[ 30]
Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion
William Morrow and Company
[ 30]
John E. Stith
Redshift Rendezvous
Ace Books
[ 30]
Jane Yolen
White Jenna
Tor Books
[ 30]
1992
Michael Swanwick *
Stations of the Tide
Asimov's Science Fiction
[ 31]
John Barnes
Orbital Resonance
Tor Books
[ 31]
Lois McMaster Bujold
Barrayar
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
[ 31]
Emma Bull
Bone Dance
Ace Books
[ 31]
Pat Cadigan
Synners
Bantam Spectra
[ 31]
Bruce Sterling
The Difference Engine
Bantam Spectra
[ 31]
William Gibson
1993
Connie Willis *
Doomsday Book
Bantam Spectra
[ 32]
John Barnes
A Million Open Doors
Tor Books
[ 32]
Karen Joy Fowler
Sarah Canary
Henry Holt and Company
[ 32]
Maureen F. McHugh
China Mountain Zhang
Tor Books
[ 32]
Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep
Tor Books
[ 32]
Jane Yolen
Briar Rose
Tor Books
[ 32]
1994
Kim Stanley Robinson *
Red Mars
Bantam Spectra
[ 33]
Kevin J. Anderson
Assemblers of Infinity
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
[ 33]
Doug Beason
Algis Budrys
Hard Landing
Fantasy & Science Fiction
[ 33]
Nancy Kress
Beggars in Spain
Morrow AvoNova
[ 33]
Gene Wolfe
Nightside the Long Sun
Tor Books
[ 33]
1995
Greg Bear *
Moving Mars
Tor Books
[ 34]
Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower
Four Walls Eight Windows
[ 34]
Jonathan Lethem
Gun, with Occasional Music
Harcourt Brace
[ 34]
James K. Morrow
Towing Jehovah
Harcourt Brace
[ 34]
Rachel Pollack
Temporary Agency
St. Martin's Press
[ 34]
Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars
Bantam Spectra
[ 34]
Roger Zelazny
A Night in the Lonesome October
Morrow AvoNova
[ 34]
1996
Robert J. Sawyer *
The Terminal Experiment
HarperPrism
[ 35]
John Barnes
Mother of Storms
Tor Books
[ 35]
Nancy Kress
Beggars and Choosers
Tor Books
[ 35]
Paul Park
Celestis
Tor Books
[ 35]
Walter Jon Williams
Metropolitan
HarperPrism
[ 35]
Gene Wolfe
Calde of the Long Sun
Tor Books
[ 35]
1997
Nicola Griffith *
Slow River
Del Rey Books
[ 36]
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Silent Strength of Stones
AvoNova
[ 36]
Patricia A. McKillip
Winter Rose
Ace Books
[ 36]
Tim Powers
Expiration Date
Tor Books
[ 36]
Robert J. Sawyer
Starplex
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
[ 36]
Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age
Bantam Spectra
[ 36]
1998
Vonda N. McIntyre *
The Moon and the Sun
Pocket Books
[ 37]
Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory
Baen Books
[ 37]
Kate Elliott
King's Dragon
DAW Books
[ 37]
George R. R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
Bantam Spectra
[ 37]
Jack McDevitt
Ancient Shores
HarperPrism
[ 37]
Walter Jon Williams
City on Fire
HarperPrism
[ 37]
Connie Willis
Bellwether
Bantam Spectra
[ 37]
1999
Joe Haldeman *
Forever Peace
Ace Books
[ 38]
Catherine Asaro
The Last Hawk
Tor Books
[ 38]
Jack McDevitt
Moonfall
HarperPrism
[ 38]
Harry Turtledove
How Few Remain
Del Rey Books
[ 38]
Martha Wells
The Death of the Necromancer
Avon
[ 38]
Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Bantam Spectra
[ 38]
2000
Octavia E. Butler *
Parable of the Talents
Seven Stories Press
[ 39]
Ken MacLeod
The Cassini Division
Tor Books
[ 39]
George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings
Bantam Spectra
[ 39]
Maureen F. McHugh
Mission Child
Avon Eos
[ 39]
Sean Stewart
Mockingbird
Ace Books
[ 39]
Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky
Tor Books
[ 39]
2001
Greg Bear *
Darwin's Radio
Del Rey Books
[ 40]
Lois McMaster Bujold
A Civil Campaign
Baen Books
[ 40]
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Crescent City Rhapsody
Avon Eos
[ 40]
Nalo Hopkinson
Midnight Robber
Warner Aspect
[ 40]
Jack McDevitt
Infinity Beach
HarperPrism
[ 40]
Charles de Lint
Forests of the Heart
Tor Books
[ 40]
2002
Catherine Asaro *
The Quantum Rose
Tor Books
[ 41]
Jeffrey Carver
Eternity's End
Tor Books
[ 41]
Geoffrey A. Landis
Mars Crossing
Tor Books
[ 41]
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
Bantam Spectra
[ 41]
Wil McCarthy
The Collapsium
Del Rey Books
[ 41]
Patricia A. McKillip
The Tower at Stony Wood
Ace Books
[ 41]
Tim Powers
Declare
Subterranean Press
[ 41]
Connie Willis
Passage
Bantam Books
[ 41]
2003
Neil Gaiman *
American Gods
William Morrow and Company
[ 42]
Kelley Eskridge
Solitaire
Eos
[ 42]
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Other Wind
Harcourt
[ 42]
Robert A. Metzger
Picoverse
Ace Books
[ 42]
China Miéville
Perdido Street Station
Del Rey Books
[ 42]
Michael Swanwick
Bones of the Earth
Eos
[ 42]
2004
Elizabeth Moon *
The Speed of Dark
Ballantine Books
[ 43]
Lois McMaster Bujold
Diplomatic Immunity
Baen Books
[ 43]
Carol Emshwiller
The Mount
Small Beer Press
[ 43]
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Light Music
Eos
[ 43]
Nalo Hopkinson
The Salt Roads
Warner
[ 43]
Jack McDevitt
Chindi
Ace Books
[ 43]
2005
Lois McMaster Bujold *
Paladin of Souls
Eos
[ 44]
Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Tor Books
[ 44]
Jack McDevitt
Omega
Ace Books
[ 44]
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Random House
[ 44]
Sean Stewart
Perfect Circle
Small Beer Press
[ 44]
Gene Wolfe
The Knight
Tor Books
[ 44]
2006
Joe Haldeman *
Camouflage
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
[ 45]
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Bloomsbury Publishing
[ 45]
Jack McDevitt
Polaris
Ace Books
[ 45]
Terry Pratchett
Going Postal
HarperCollins
[ 45]
Geoff Ryman
Air
St. Martin's Press
[ 45]
John C. Wright
Orphans of Chaos
Tor Books
[ 45]
2007
Jack McDevitt *
Seeker
Ace Books
[ 46]
Ellen Kushner
The Privilege of the Sword
Bantam Spectra
[ 46]
Jeffrey Ford
The Girl in the Glass
HarperCollins
[ 46]
Jo Walton
Farthing
Tor Books
[ 46]
Richard Bowes
From the Files of the Time Rangers
Golden Gryphon Press
[ 46]
Wil McCarthy
To Crush the Moon
Bantam Spectra
[ 46]
2008
Michael Chabon *
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
HarperCollins
[ 47]
Jack McDevitt
Odyssey
Ace Books
[ 47]
Joe Haldeman
The Accidental Time Machine
Ace Books
[ 47]
Nalo Hopkinson
The New Moon's Arms
Warner
[ 47]
Tobias S. Buckell
Ragamuffin
Tor Books
[ 47]
2009
Ursula K. Le Guin *
Powers
Harcourt
[ 48]
Cory Doctorow
Little Brother
Tor Books
[ 48]
Jack McDevitt
Cauldron
Ace Books
[ 48]
Ian McDonald
Brasyl
Pyr Books
[ 48]
Terry Pratchett
Making Money
Harper
[ 48]
David J. Schwartz
Superpowers
Three Rivers Press
[ 48]
2010
Paolo Bacigalupi *
The Windup Girl
Night Shade Books
[ 49]
Christopher Barzak
The Love We Share Without Knowing
Bantam Books
[ 49]
Laura Anne Gilman
Flesh and Fire
Pocket Books
[ 49]
China Miéville
The City & the City
Del Rey Books
[ 49]
Cherie Priest
Boneshaker
Tor Books
[ 49]
Jeff VanderMeer
Finch
Underland Press
[ 49]
2011
Connie Willis *
Blackout/All Clear
Bantam Spectra
[ 50]
M. K. Hobson
The Native Star
Bantam Spectra
[ 50]
N. K. Jemisin
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Orbit Books
[ 50]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Shades of Milk and Honey
Tor Books
[ 50]
Jack McDevitt
Echo
Ace Books
[ 50]
Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death
DAW Books
[ 50]
2012
Jo Walton *
Among Others
Tor Books
[ 51]
China Miéville
Embassytown
Subterranean Press
[ 51]
Jack McDevitt
Firebird
Ace Books
[ 51]
Kameron Hurley
God's War
Night Shade Books
[ 51]
Genevieve Valentine
Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Prime Books
[ 51]
N. K. Jemisin
The Kingdom of Gods
Orbit Books
[ 51]
2013
Kim Stanley Robinson *
2312
Orbit Books
[ 52]
Saladin Ahmed
Throne of the Crescent Moon
DAW Books
[ 52]
Tina Connolly
Ironskin
Tor Books
[ 52]
N. K. Jemisin
The Killing Moon
Orbit Books
[ 52]
Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Drowning Girl
Roc Books
[ 52]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamour in Glass
Tor Books
[ 52]
2014
Ann Leckie *
Ancillary Justice
Orbit Books
[ 53]
Karen Joy Fowler
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Marian Wood Books
[ 53]
Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
William Morrow and Company
[ 53]
Charles E. Gannon
Fire with Fire
Baen Books
[ 53]
Nicola Griffith
Hild
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
[ 53]
Linda Nagata
The Red: First Light
Mythic Island Press
[ 53]
Sofia Samatar
A Stranger in Olondria
Small Beer Press
[ 53]
Helene Wecker
The Golem and the Jinni
Harper
[ 53]
2015
Jeff VanderMeer *
Annihilation
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
[ 54]
Katherine Addison
The Goblin Emperor
Tor Books
[ 54]
Charles E. Gannon
Trial by Fire
Baen Books
[ 54]
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword
Orbit Books
[ 54]
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem
Tor Books
[ 54]
Jack McDevitt
Coming Home
Ace Books
[ 54]
2016
Naomi Novik *
Uprooted
Del Rey Books
[ 55]
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy
Orbit Books
[ 55]
Lawrence M. Schoen
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard
Tor Books
[ 55]
N. K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season
Orbit Books
[ 55]
Ken Liu
The Grace of Kings
Saga Press
[ 55]
Charles E. Gannon
Raising Caine
Baen Books
[ 55]
Fran Wilde
Updraft
Tor Books
[ 55]
2017
Charlie Jane Anders *
All the Birds in the Sky
Tor Books , Titan Books
[ 56]
Mishell Baker
Borderline
Saga Press
[ 56]
N. K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate
Orbit Books
[ 56]
Yoon Ha Lee
Ninefox Gambit
Solaris Books
[ 56]
Nisi Shawl
Everfair
Tor Books
[ 56]
2018
N. K. Jemisin *
The Stone Sky
Orbit Books
[ 57]
Lara Elena Donnelly
Amberlough
Tor Books
[ 57]
Theodora Goss
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Saga Press
[ 57]
Daryl Gregory
Spoonbenders
Alfred A. Knopf , Riverrun Books
[ 57]
Mur Lafferty
Six Wakes
Orbit Books
[ 57]
Fonda Lee
Jade City
Orbit Books
[ 57]
Annalee Newitz
Autonomous
Tor Books , Orbit Books
[ 57]
2019
Mary Robinette Kowal *
The Calculating Stars
Tor Books
[ 58]
Sam J. Miller
Blackfish City
Ecco Press , Orbit UK
[ 58]
R. F. Kuang
The Poppy War
Harper Voyager
[ 58]
Naomi Novik
Spinning Silver
Del Rey Books , Macmillan Publishers
[ 58]
Rebecca Roanhorse
Trail of Lightning
Saga Press
[ 58]
C. L. Polk
Witchmark
Tor.com Publishing
[ 58]
2020
Sarah Pinsker *
A Song for a New Day
Berkley Press
[ 59]
Charles E. Gannon
Marque of Caine
Baen Books
[ 59]
Alix E. Harrow
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Orbit Books
[ 59]
Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire
Tor Books
[ 59]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Del Rey Books , Jo Fletcher Books
[ 59]
Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth
Tor.com Publishing
[ 59]
2021
Martha Wells *
Network Effect
Tor.com Publishing
[ 60]
Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
Bloomsbury Publishing
[ 60]
N. K. Jemisin
The City We Became
Orbit Books
[ 60]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic
Del Rey Books
[ 60]
C. L. Polk
The Midnight Bargain
Erewhon Books
[ 60]
Rebecca Roanhorse
Black Sun
Saga Press
[ 60]
2022
P. Djèlí Clark *
A Master of Djinn
Tor.com Publishing
[ 61]
C. L. Clark
The Unbroken
Orbit Books
[ 61]
S. B. Divya
Machinehood
Saga Press
[ 61]
Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace
Tor.com Publishing
[ 61]
Jason Sanford
Plague Birds
Apex
[ 61]
2023
R. F. Kuang *
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Harper Voyager
[ 62]
Travis Baldree
Legends & Lattes
Cryptid Press, Tor Books
[ 62]
Nicola Griffith
Spear
Tordotcom
[ 62]
T. Kingfisher
Nettle & Bone
Tor Books , Titan Books
[ 62]
Tamsyn Muir
Nona the Ninth
Tordotcom
[ 62]
Ray Nayler
The Mountain in the Sea
MCD , Weidenfeld & Nicolson
[ 62]
2024
Vajra Chandrasekera *
The Saint of Bright Doors
Tordotcom
[ 63]
S. L. Huang
The Water Outlaws
Tordotcom ; Solaris UK
[ 63]
Ann Leckie
Translation State
Orbit US , Orbit UK
[ 63]
Annalee Newitz
The Terraformers
Tordotcom ; Orbit UK
[ 63]
Wole Talabi
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
DAW ; Gollancz
[ 63]
Martha Wells
Witch King
Tordotcom
[ 63]
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