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Nebula Awards
Best Novelette
This award is given to works of between 7500 and 17,500 words. The year indicated is the year of publication/eligibility; the award is actually presented the following year.

Date Author Title
2009 Eugie Foster "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast"
2008 John Kessel "Pride and Prometheus"
2007 Ted Chiang "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
2006 Peter S. Beagle "Two Hearts"
2005 Kelly Link "The Faery Handbag"
2004 Ellen Klages "Basement Magic"
2003 Jeffrey Ford "The Empire of Ice Cream"
2002 Ted Chiang "Hell is the Absence of God"
2001 Kelly Link "Louise's Ghost"
2000 Walter Jon Williams "Daddy's Word"
1999 Mary A. Turzillo "Mars is No Place for Children"
1998 Jane Yolen "Lost Girls"
1997 Nancy Kress "The Flowers of Aulit Prison"
1996 Bruce Holland Rogers "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea"
1995 Ursula K. Le Guin "Solitude"
1994 David Gerrold "The Martian Child"
1993 Charles Shefflied "Georgia on My Mind"
1992 Pamela Sargent "Danny Goes to Mars"
1991 Mike Connor "Guide Dog"
1990 Ted Chiang "Tower of Babylon"
1989 Connie Willis "At the Rialto"
1988 George Alec Effinger "Schrödinger's Kitten"
1987 Pat Murphy "Rachel in Love"
1986 Kate Wilhelm "The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky"
1985 George R.R. Martin "Portraits of His Children"
1984 Octavia Butler "Bloodchild"
1983 Greg Bear "Blood Music"
1982 Connie Willis "Fire Watch"
1981 Michael Bishop "The Quickening"
1980 Howard Waldrop "The Ugly Chickens"
1979 George R.R. Martin "Sandkings"
1978 Charles L. Grant "A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn's Eye"
1977 Racoona Sheldon "The Screwfly Solution"
1976 Isaac Asimov "The Bicentennial Man"
1975 Tom Reamy "San Diego Lightfoot Sue"
1974 Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford "If the Stars Are Gods"
1973 Vonda N. McIntyre "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"
1972 Poul Anderson "Goat Song"
1971 Poul Anderson "The Queen of Air and Darkness"
1970 Theordore Sturgeon "Slow Sculpture"
1969 Samuel R. Delany "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
1968 Richard Wilson "Mother to the World"
1967 Fritz Leiber "Gonna Roll the Bones"
1966 Gordon R. Dickson "Call Him Lord"
1965 Roger Zelazny "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth"
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