Nebula Awards

The Nebula Awards are the Oscars of the Science Fiction & Fantasy field, awards presented by professionals to professionals. They were created in the mid-1960s, by the newly formed Science Fiction Writers of America, as the basis for annual anthologies that would contribute to the income of the organization. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette and short story eligible for that year's award. The Nebula Award is usually presented in the Spring for the previous year's books. for more information, please visit: www.sfwa.org

2007 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
For sixty years, Jewish refugees have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder – right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of this former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil and salvation that are his heritage.

2006 Seeker by Jack McDevitt
In 2688, interstellar transports Seeker and Bremerhaven left a theocratic Orwellian Earth to found a dictator-free society, Margolia – and vanished. Nine thousand years later, with a flawed humanity spread over 100-odd worlds, Margolia and its ships have become Atlantis-type myths, but after a cup from Seeker falls into the hands of antiquarian Alex Benedict, the hero of McDevitt's Polaris (2004), Alex determines to win everlasting fame and vaster fortune by finding them. Female pilot Chase Kolpath, this book's narrator, gutsily tracks the ancient Seeker on a breathless trek across star systems and through an intriguing mystery plot, a bevy of fully realized characters, ingenious AI ships and avatars of long-departed personalities who offer advice and entertainment.

2005 Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Two alien creatures have wandered the earth for generations. They have no knowledge of each other, but possess a residual memory of an alien artifact recently discovered in the ocean – and an affinity for deep water. One, which calls itself the changeling, has survived by adaptation, by taking on many different forms: man, woman, snake, shark. The other, which calls itself the chameleon, has survived solely by destroying anything or anyone that threatens it. Now, finally brought up from the bottom of the sea, the artifact calls them both...to come home. But the chameleon has decided there's only room for one.

2004 The Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Cured of the madness that made her a prisoner in the castle of her family, the Lady Ista dy Baocia, Dowager Royina of Chalion, finds herself at loose ends. Bereft of her family, she decides to undertake a pilgrimage of atonement, accompanied by a small retinue of companions. What begins as a peaceful journey becomes a dangerous quest to stop a supernatural threat from shattering the peace of Chalion.

2003 Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Journeys inside the mind of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man, who is asked to undergo a new, experimental treatment designed to cure autism, as he decides whether or not he should risk a medical procedure that could make him "normal." But, would he then really be the same person and experience life the same way?

2002 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Days before his release from prison, Shadow learns that his wife has been killed in an accident. On the plane ride back home for the funeral, he meets the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday, who offers Shadow a job. Shadow accepts but soon discovers that Mr. Wednesday is far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined and Shadow is now caught in up a war for the soul of America.

2001 The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
A new chapter in the saga of the Skolian Empire finds Kamoj Quanta Argali, a young noblewoman, agreeing to marry a powerful stranger in order to save her people from starvation.

2000 Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has a theory on human retroviruses and it has just been verified with the discovery of SHEVA, a virus that has slept in our DNA for millions of years and is now waking up. Kaye and her colleagues must race against a genetic time bomb in this international adventure, which takes place in Southern Russia and in a cave high in the Alps.

1999 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
The dystopian world of 2032 finds African-American hyper-empath Lauren Olamina at the head of the self-sufficient community of Acorn. As war racks the North American continent, an ultraconservative religious crusader becomes president. Told through Lauren's journal entries, her poetry and commentary from her daughter, Larkin, it is the sequel to The Parable of the Sower.

1998 Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
In 2043, with war still raging on and life on Earth coming to an end, Julian and his lover, Dr. Amelia Harding, make a great scientific discovery and devise a plan to end the destruction by stopping the war machines once and for all.

1997 The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

1996 Slow River by Nicola Griffith

1995 The Terminal Experiment * by Robert J. Sawyer

1994 Moving Mars by Greg Bear

1993 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

1992 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

1991 Stations of the Tide * by Michael Swanwick

1990 Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

1989 Healer's War * by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

1988 Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

1987 The Falling Woman * by Pat Murphy

1986 Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

1985 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

1984 Neuromancer by William Gibson

1983 Startide Rising by David Brin

1982 No Enemy But Time * by Michael Bishop

1981 The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

1980 Timescape by Gregory Benford

1979 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

1978 Dreamsnake * by Vonda N. McIntyre

1977 Gateway by Frederik Pohl

1976 Man Plus by Frederik Pohl

1975 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

1974 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

1973 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

1972 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

1971 A Time of Changes * by Robert Silverberg

1970 Ringworld by Larry Niven

1969 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

1968 Rite of Passage * by Alexei Panshin

1967 The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

1966 Tie: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany;
and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

1965 Dune by Frank Herbert

* Wake County does not own this book; it may be out of print.