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Nebula Awards

Annually recognizes the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.
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1980-1989

1980

Timescape by Gregory Benford

  • Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl

  • Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

  • The Orphan by Robert Stallman

  • The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

  • The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

1981

The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

  • Little, Big by John Crowley

  • The Many-Colored Land by Julian May

  • Radix by A. A. Attanasio

  • Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

  • The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

1982

No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop

  • Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

  • Friday by Robert A. Heinlein

  • Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss

  • The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick



1983

Startide Rising by David Brin

  • Against INfinity by Gregory Bendford

  • The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe

  • Lyonesse by Jack Vance

  • Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy

  • The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad

1984

Neuromancer by WIlliam Gibson

  • Frontera by Lewis Shiner

  • The Integral Trees by Larry Niven

  • Job : a Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein

  • The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann

  • The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson

1985

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

  • Blood Music by Greg Bear

  • Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers

  • Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss

  • The Postman by David Brin

  • The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry N. Malzberg

  • Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling



1986

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

  • Count Zero by William Gibson

  • Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe

  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  • The Journal of Nicholas the American by Leigh Kennedy

  • This is the Way the World Ends by James K. Morrow

1987

The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

  • The Forge of God by Greg Bear

  • Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe

  • The Uplift War by David Brin

  • Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson

  • When Gravity Falls by George Alec Effiner

1988

Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner

  • Drowning Towers by George Turner

  • Great Sky River by Gregory Benford

  • Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

  • Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card

  • The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

1989

The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  • The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson

  • Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

  • Good News From Outer Space by John Kessel

  • Ivory : a Legend of Past and Future by MIke Resnick

  • Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen