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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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1990-1999

1990

Tehanu : the Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

  • Only Begotten Daughter by James K. Morrow

  • The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

  • Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith

  • White Jenna by Jane Yolen

1991

Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

  • Orbital Resonance by John Barnes

  • Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Bone Dance by Emma Bull

  • Synners by Pat Cadigan

  • The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling & William Gibson

1992

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

  • A Million Open Doors by John Barnes

  • Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

  • China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

  • A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

  • Briar Rose by Jane Yolen



1993

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason

  • Hard Landing by Algis Budrys

  • Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

  • Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

1994

Moving Mars by Greg Bear

  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

  • Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

  • Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow

  • Temporary Agency by Rachel Pollack

  • Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny


1995

The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

  • Mother of Storms by John Barnes

  • Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress

  • Celestis by Paul Park

  • Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams

  • Calde of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

1996

Slow River by Nicola Griffith

  • The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

  • Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillup

  • Expiration Date by Tim Powers

  • Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer

  • The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson


1997

The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

  • Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

  • King's Dragon by Kate Elliott

  • A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

  • Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt

  • City on Fire by Walter John Williams

  • Bellwether by Connie Willis

1998

Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

  • The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro

  • Moonfall by Jack McDevitt

  • How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove

  • The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells

  • To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

1999

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

  • The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod

  • A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

  • MIssion Child by Maureen F. McHugh

  • Mockingbird by Sean Steward

  • A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge