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Lancelot Schaubert

Nebula Award Winners

Nebula Award winners are a bit difficult to find gathered all in one post on the SFWA site, no offense to them. If you go to the SFWA site — for whom I remain obviously grateful — it’s several extra clicks to get to the proper year, which makes it rather difficult to search by author. I wanted to ctrl+F the entire history of the awards. In order to organize their data for the Nebula Award Winners, I’ve simply copied and pasted each year into one scrollable format.

This will make it easier to ctrl+F and find your favorite sci fi author. If SFWA modifies their own site — or even just copies this post of copied and assembled posts — I’ll happily take this down upon request. The below literally links to all of their pages and simply reorganizes the information they’ve already posted into an infinite scroll format. Let me know if you need me to take it down, SFWA, I literally just did this for user experience reasons:

1965 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:

East – Overseas Press Club, New York, New York on March 11, 1966
West – McHenry’s Tail O’ the Cock in Beverly Hills, California on March 11, 1966

Best Novel

Best Novella

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1966 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Les Champs, New York, New York on March 25, 1967
West – McHenry’s Tail O’ the Cock, Beverly Hills, California on March 25, 1967

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1967 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Les Champs, New York, New York on March 16, 1968
West – Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, California on March 16, 1968

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1968 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Les Champs, New York, New York on March 15, 1969
West – Club 33, Disneyland, USA, Anaheim, California on March 15, 1969
South – Fontainebleau Motor Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana March 14, 1969

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1969 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Les Champs, New York, New York on March 14, 1970
West – Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, California on March 14, 1970

The 1970 Nebula Awards® were held as Les Champs restaurant in New York with 125 people attending and Isaac Asimov serving as Master of Ceremonies.  During the evening, Judy-Lynn Benjamin spoke about the difficulties of working with Harlan Ellison and a keynote address was given by Carl Sagan, focusing his attention on Mars. The event was limited to the banquet and awards ceremony, where Gordon Dickson presented the four winners with their Nebulas, as well as plaques presented to the publishers of the works.  As was typical of the era, a separate banquet was held on the same evening on the West Coast for authors who couldn’t attend the New York banquet.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1970 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Les Champs, New York, New York on April 3, 1971
West – Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, California on April 3, 1971
South – Bourbon Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana on April 3, 1971

1971 saw three banquets held on the evening of April 3 for the presentation of the Nebula Awards®.  The New York banquet followed a cocktail hour and had an attendance of 110, a decrease from the previous year.  Lester del Rey served as toastmaster, providing a satirical look at SFWA’s problems, although it has been reported that the humor failed and the speech came off as a tirade.  He was followed by a keynote speech on artificial intelligence by Marvin Minsky.  Isaac Asimov announced the winners, and although a press release had been issued the previous day, Asimov accidentally announced that Gene Wolfe had won for “The Island of Dr. Death,” although that year’s “winner” was actually “no award.” Wolfe would eventually win the Nebula for “The Death of Doctor Island” three years later.  Joe Green served as the MC for a steak dinner in New Orleans, which was attended by 30 people.  A keynote speech was given by Jerry Page on the fluctuations of importance and circulation of the fantasy magazines.  Although the evening was dampened by the fact that the only nominee present, R. A. Lafferty, did not win (like Wolfe, he lost to no award), a party followed the banquet.  Finally, a West Coast banquet was held at the Hotel Claremont in San Francisco, where 68 people were hosted by Gregory Benford and Alva Rogers.  Unlike the New York and New Orleans events, prior to the dinner, the West Coasters were able to listen to a series of panels, one a market review, the other a panel on what was wrong with SFWA, as viewed by Richard Lupoff, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Joe Goers.  This event also hosted a SFWA Business Meeting.  Avram Davidson served as the banquet’s toastmaster and George Clayton Roberts gave a speech about the interface between the present and future. Winners Larry Niven and Fritz Leiber were present, and although Forrest Ackerman accepted on behalf of Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon appeared before the end of the evening.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1971 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – New York Hilton, New York, New York on April 29, 1972
West – Airport-Marina Hotel, Los Angeles, California on April 29, 1972
South – Le Pavilion Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana on April 29, 1972

The Business Meeting was held on Saturday morning at the New York Hilton followed by several panels, including speakers Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, before the banquet convened at Les Champs.  Harlan Ellison served as emcee.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1973 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Algonquin Hotel, New York, New York on April 27, 1974
West – Century Plaza Hotel, Hollywood, CA on April 27, 1974

A tour of Edwards Air Force Base was organized for Wednesday with a Thursday tour of Rockwell International that included seeing a full size space shuttle mock up. Friday had a three hour panel on sf in which the panelists constantly rotated in and out.  The Friday evening party was held at Forrest J. Ackerman’s home. The Business Meeting was held on Saturday morning, followed by the editors’ panel, a talk by Harlan Ellison, and finally a panel made up of Al Worden and Edgar Mitchell.  Bruce Murray and Robert Forward also gave presentations. Robert Bloch was the emcee and Worden, Murray, and Mitchell all spoke during the banquet.  Arthur C. Clarke, who won for Rendezvous with Rama, was unable to attend, so Robert Heinlein passed around a copy of the book for all present to sign to be sent off to Clarke.  An unofficial East Coast party was held at the Algonquin Hotel.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

1974 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:

East: Warwick Hotel, New York, New York on April 26, 1975

West: ?

The official New York Nebula award winners banquet followed a day of panel discussions which drew about 100 people.  An additional 100 showed up for the dinner, which opened with Spider Robinson performing a 20 minute musical set before Fred Pohl introduced keynote speaker Damon Knight, who spoke about the history of SFWA and its accomplishments.  In addition to the four fiction and the film awards, the first Grand Master Award was presented by Tom Scortia to Robert Heinlein, who was the only winner in attendance.  The other Nebula winners, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Gordon Eklund, and Gregory Benford, were among the 54 people attending the West Coast Nebula banquet, where the keynote speaker was Robert W. Bussard.  The winners names at the West Coast banquet were written on balloons which had to be blown up to reveal the winners after they were taken out of the envelopes.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

1975 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California, April 10, 1976

1976 saw a two-day Nebula event held in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel, although few people attended for more than just the banquet, which hosted around 140 people. Terry Carr served as toastmaster and George Pal was the keynote speaker, talking about his early science fiction films, including Destination Moon, Them, and others.  Further talks were given after dinner by Laurence J. Peter, who had written The Peter Principle and John McCarthy, who spoke about artificial intelligence.  The presenters did not know they would be presenting the awards until their names were called, so they were as surprised as the winners.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

1976 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:
East – Warwick Hotel, New York, New York on April 30, 1977
West – America, San Francisco Bay, California on April 30, 1977

Prior to the 1977 banquet, a series of underattended panels focused on international science fiction and Harlan Ellison spoke against the decision to drop the Best Dramatic Presentation Nebula after only three years, ending with his resignation from SFWA in protest.  The dropping of the category had only been announced at the business meeting earlier in the day after the voting had declared that no award had won.  About two hundred people attended the cocktail hour and banquet and Asimov served as toastmaster and introduced keynote speaker Clifford D. Simak.   A return of the Nebulas to New York meant another unofficial West Coast banquet, this time held on the ship America in San Francisco Bay for about 50 people.  The evening was toastmastered by the Benford twins and the keynote speech was given by Clayton Bailey, curator of the World Kaolithic Museum, which had just celebrated its first anniversary.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Special Dramatic Presentation Award

1977 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at:

East – American Hotel, New York, New York, April 29, 1978 (unofficial)

West – Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California April 29, 1978

Although there were a couple of evening parties on the Thursday and Friday nights preceding the day of the banquet, the official event began with the Business Meeting on Saturday morning.  The afternoon was filled with panels, questions, and answers on the technical business aspects of publishing and the banquet for 160 people was hosted by Robert Silverberg with a talk by cartoonist B. Kliban and another by William J. Kaufmann talking about black holes.  Since the official event was hosted in San Francisco, an unofficial banquet was held in New York at the American Hotel, where Spider and Jeanne Robinson were present to accept their Nebulas.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Special Dramatic Presentation Award

1978 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Warwick Hotel, New York, New York on April 21, 1979

About three hundred people, including many publishing professionals who had left the genre, attended the 1979 event in New York. Because SFWA had announced the winners in advance to the press, there was little suspense on the evening of the banquet.  The Business Meeting focused on organizational issues and the board announced that they were beginning the process for incorporation.  Following the business meeting were panels on foreign rights, grievances, and editors. Norman Spinrad served as emcee and the keynote speech was given by Omni publisher Bob Guccione. Service Awards went to Jerry Pournelle, andrew j. offutt, and Tom Monteleone with a Special Award presented to Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel for the creation of Superman.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1979 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles, California on April 26, 1980

Following the Business Meeting on Saturday was a slide presentation of Rick Sternbach’s art and a panel comprised of six editors.  David Gerrold served as toastmaster for the 120 attendees at the banquet while Dr. Edward Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory gave the keynote speech followed by a talk by Robert L. Forward. Arthur C. Clarke sent an audio recording of an acceptance speech for The Fountains of Paradise.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1980 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, New York on April 25, 1981

On Thursday evening, an unofficial party was hosted by TImescape Books and Forbidden Planet held its bookstore opening. Following the Saturday Business Meeting were panels on editing and royalties, although attendance was done due to the attraction of a convention of models across the hall.  The keynote speech by Barbara Marx Hubbard tied the space program to born-again Christianity and was not successful.  Other speeches were given by Marvin Minsky and Marc Chartrand.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1981 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Claremont Resort Hotel, Oakland, California on April 24, 1982

Parties and panels began on Friday afternoon, with Timescape Books sponsoring the Friday evening reception.  The Business Meeting was held on Saturday morning followed by panels and some films provided by NASA.  Terry Carr served as emcee and San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer Patricia Holt spoke about book reviewing and the need to review paperbacks. Gene Wolfe, who won for The Claw of the Conciliator, spoke on award losers prior to the winners being announced.  Lisa Tuttle, who had removed her story “The Bone Flute” from contention over campaigning by George Florence-Guthridge.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1982 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Statler Hilton, New York, New York on April 23, 1983

The event started with a cocktail hour on Friday night in the Presidential Suite.  More publishing professionals attended the weekend events than did published authors. Because of a burst water pipe, the hotel had to find a new place to host the Nebulas.  Following a sparsely attended Business Meeting, there were three panels, one on computers, one staffed by editors, and one on foreign rights.  The only speaker at the banquet was Avon Editor-in-Chief Page Cuddy and Charles L. Grant served as Toastmaster.

Best Novel

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Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1983 Nebula Award Winners

Presented on the Queen Mary, Long Beach, California on April 28, 1984

The Friday night hospitality suite was sponsored by Berkley and Bantam while Baen sponsored the pre-banquet reception.  Berkley and IASFM sponsored parties on Saturday night. Terry Carr served as toastmaster and Art Seidenbaum of the LA Times Book Review was the featured speaker.  The Business Meeting was held on Saturday Morning followed by a discussion by SFWA agent Richard Curtis and SFWA attorney Henry Holmes about ways to negotiate with Publishers.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1984 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Warwick Hotel, New York, New York on May 5, 1985

Ian and Betty Ballantine were presented with a special award for their pioneering contributions to science fiction and fantasy publishing.  The Business Meeting took place on Saturday at noon and was followed by the traditional editors’ panel, and agents’ panel. LACon sponsored the pre-banquet reception.  As with the 1983 event, publishing professionals outnumbered authors.  Attorney Tim Jensen was the primary speaker and spoke about taxes and the author. Following the banquet, Harlan Ellison punched Charles Platt over comments Platt had made regarding an award given to Larry Shaw.  Tom Disch also punched William Gibson, without explanation.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1985 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California on April 26, 1986

Over 200 SFWA members and friends attended the banquet and the weekend of pro­gramming. The Locus Awards were presented prior to the Nebula banquet.  Programming began on Saturday morning. A small crisis occurred during the presentation of the Nebula for novelette, but otherwise the ceremony went smoothly. Comic relief was provided by Connie Willis, whose critical observations concerning the Nebula ceremony’s lack of drama were very well received.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1986 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Halloran House Hotel, New York, New York on May 2, 1987

Friday evening saw sponsored parties by Berkley Books (in Greenwich Village) and Tor Books. In addition to the banquet, there was a two-day program, although the final items on Sunday were cancelled due to low attendance.  Charles Sheffield served as emcee.  Woodcarver and artist Barry Moser was the guest speaker. Davis Publications sponsored an after-banquet party.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1987 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California on May 21, 1988

David Rappoport, an actor in Time Bandits happened to be staying at the hotel and was spotted reading Omni.  When he was told that the editor was on the opposite side of the pool and the Nebulas were taking place, he offered to speak, and became a speaker at the banquet.  David Webb, who was supposed to introduce the keynote speaker, launched into a diatribe about how we’ve turned out back on space and the keynote speaker, Louis Friedman spoke on the need to explore Mars, although neither were particularly well received.  The Grand Master Award was for Alfred Bester, who had died between being informed of the honor and the Nebula Weekend.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1988 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Penta Hotel, New York, New York on April 22, 1989

Greg Bear kept winners secret and treated all nominees equally, as opposed to previous years which either officially or unofficially leaked the winners.  In addition, all nominees received certificates for the first time.  Tor Books sponsored a Thursday night party and Bantam Books sponsored a Friday afternoon reception.  The Official Opening took place on Friday evening and Saturday morning was the Business Meeting.  In the afternoon, there were panels on agents and shared-world contracts, but they were poorly attended.  There were two cocktail parties before the banquet, the traditional one and a Pesadic one hosted by Julius Schwartz.  Ian Ballantine gave the keynote speech.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1989 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco, California on April 28, 1990

There was low attendance of publishers and many of the locals stayed away due to two earthquakes that struck during the course of the weekend, the first on Friday evening during the opening reception.  Saturday panels discussing the continuation of the SFWA Forum.  The Business Meeting was scheduled for Sunday morning. Robert Silverberg emceed the banquet.  Thomas Furness gave the keynote speech about the applications of virtual space. As with the previous year, the winners did not know they had won ahead of time.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1990 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York on April 27, 1991

There was a last minute hotel change from the Omni because the Omni had rented the room out from under SFWA, which didn’t have a contract for the space. The Roosevelt didn’t received their payment from SFWA in time and Tom Doherty sent over a check to cover it.  The Business Meeting was moved to Saturday morning from the traditional Sunday morning, but the change was announced at the last minute and it was opposite a mass autographing at Forbidden Planet. SFWA President Ben Bova served as emcee and the main speaker was Hugh Downs. The after-banquet party spilled out into the hall and almost got SFWA thrown out of the hotel, but the hotel agreed to let SFWA move from sleeping rooms to unused function space.  There was nothing scheduled for Sunday except a Tor 10th Anniversary party .  For the first time, there were bids to host the next year’s Nebulas outside of New York and California, with Atlanta beating a New Orleans bid.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1991 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Colony Square Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia on April 25, 1992

This was the first Nebula held outside of New York or California and the first one which was bid for.  Concerns that it would turn into a fannish convention were unfounded.  The hospitality suite, a penthouse with a spectacular view of the city, was sponsored by Amazing, Analog, IASFM, F&SF, Baen, DAW, Bantam, and Tor.  No panels were held and the SFWA Business Meeting was held on Saturday afternoon, making the event a single-day event (although the hospitality suite was open on Friday).  President Ben Bova asked all publishing personnel, including Active SFWA members, to leave the Business Meeting so that SFWA’s agent, Richard Curtis, could discuss several complaints against publishers. The keynote address was given by Georgia congressman and House Whip Newt Gingrich, which prompted a group of members to silently walk out.  The banquet was a family style service of Southern delicacies. Although there was no script Nebula at the time, Ben Bova gave out the Bradbury Award, a president’s choice award , to Terminator 2.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

1992 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Holiday Crowne Plaza, New Orleans, Louisiana on April 17, 1993

There were no parties and no hospitality suite other than the official Friday night reception.  The banquet had fewer than 100 attendees and less than 30 attended the Business Meeting on Sunday morning. Two science panels were held on Saturday afternoon.  Connie Willis served as toastmaster and the guest speaker was Cajun comedian A. J. Smith.  The banquet was carried live (via text) on Genie. Somebody asked a committee person where the traditional SFWA post-banquet party was. They looked blank and pointed toward the French Quar­ter.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1993 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon on April 23, 1994

Eugene might have seemed, for some, an unlikely choice, but it worked out quite well, attracting 215 attendees. The bid to obtain the Nebula event for Eugene was spearheaded largely by local bookseller Bill Trojan. The event itself was  orchestrated  expertly by Dean Wesley Smith, aided by an energetic and efficient staff of local writers. The hotel venue was the  gorgeous,  sprawling,  architecturally  slightly strange Valley River  Inn  overlooking  the  Willamette River. There was a Friday night cash bar.  Following the Saturday morning Business meeting, there were panels on Saturday afternoon on the use of computers to track book sales and publishing trends.  Connie Willis and Edward Bryant co-toastmastered.  K. Eric Drexler provided the keynote speech on molecular nanotechnology.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1994 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York, New York on April 22, 1995

Organized almost single-handedly by Eastern Regional Director Ann Crispin, this year’s Nebulas were held adjacent to Grand Central Station in New York. The Nebulas opened with a party sponsored by Dell Magazines and Bantam Books on Friday evening at the top of the Bertelsmann Building prior to the Official SFWA Opening Reception.  Saturday opened with talks by the SFWA attorney on Copyright and by an auditor on royalty statements.  The other activity for the day was the Business meeting.  Gardner Dozois emceed the event with Tom Doherty as the guest speaker.  This was the inaugural year for the Author Emeritus Award, presented to Emil Petaja and presented by Frank M. Robinson.  A special award was also given posthumously to Ian Ballantine.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1995 Nebula Awards®

Presented on the Queen Mary, Long Beach , California, on April 27, 1996

The second of two Nebula presentations held on the Queen Mary, with a little over double the attendance of the first.  Sheila Finch organized a welcome party on Friday night and Saturday saw the required Business Meeting, a trip to used bookstore Acres of Books, and a panel on electronic rights.  Ace, Bantam, Del Rey, Dell Magazines, Tor, and HarperPrism co-sponsored the pre-banquet cocktail hour.  George Alec Effinger served as toastmaster and introduced keynote speaker Bruce Murray, former head of JPL.  Bill Rotsler was presented with a lifetime membership and the Service to SFWA Award was presented for the first time to Chuq van Rospach.  Ursula Le Guin won a Nebula and noted that she had met her husband aboard the Queen Mary.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1996 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri on April 19, 1997

Robin Wayne Bailey organized the weekend and included several items in addition to the traditional banquet and business meeting, included multiple booksigning in the mall attached to the hotel, a gambling trip, a reception at a nearby Barnes and Noble, a BBQ, and demonstrations of electronic publications and interactive software.  Jane Yolen, whose novel Briar Rose had been banned in Kansas, was the toastmaster and astronaut Bernard Harris, Jr. served as keynote speaker.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1997 Nebula Awards®

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Photo by A. C. Crispin

Presented at Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 2, 1998

About 250 people attended the Nebula Awards® in Santa Fe.  There was a group signing at Page One Books on Thursday with parties that evening.  There were additional signings throughout the weekend, talks about working in Hollywood, writing and the law, writing for mixed media, and a photo show about the Mars lander.  There was also a pre-arranged trip to Los Alamos National Laboratory  Michael Cassutt served as emcee and former astrophysicist, current game designer Chris Crawford provided the keynote speech.  The Service to SFWA Award was presented to Robin Wayne Bailey.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

1998 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Marriott City Center Hotel, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on Saturday, May 1, 1999

Prior to the banquet, Pittsburgh continued Santa Fe’s tradition of multiple book signings held in various locations.  They also scheduled a tour of the Allegheny Observatory on Thursday with tours of the Robotics Institute on Friday.  The Vegetarian pasta entrée included a side of chicken.  Stan Schmidt served as toastmaster and David Hartwell presented the Keynote speech. Paul Levinson presented the Bradbury Award to J. Michael Straczynski for Babylon 5.  Sunday saw an additional autographing session as well as a final panel.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

1999 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Crowne Plaza Hotel, New York, New York on May 20, 2000

The weekend opened with an unofficial BBQ for Brian W. Aldiss at Terry Bisson’s home and three simultaneous publisher parties on Friday afternoon.  The mass autographing on Friday night was held at the Barnes and Noble in Union Square, a few blocks south of the Flatiron Building.  Several authors did short readings, but there were only spaces set up for the actual nominees to sign, despite more than 100 authors in attendance.  The Business meeting was on Saturday without any other programming, and Scott Edelman served as Toastmaster for the banquet.  Nebula nominee pins were introduced to the organization. Eric Solstein of DMZ discussed a documentary film he was making on the history of science fiction.  A series of book signings for SFWA members around the country were scheduled at various bookstores to coincide with the Nebula Weekend.

Best Novel

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Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

2000 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, CA on Saturday, April 28, 2001

This year’s Nebula Awards® was the first of two to be held in conjunction with the LA Times Book Fair.  In both years, several authors participated at the fair, but did not make an appearance at the Nebula Awards®.  Arthur C. Clarke was named Guest of Honor in absentia due to the year and sent an e-mail of thanks.  Neil Gaiman served as toastmaster and screenwriter Paul Guay was the keynote speaker.  Ray Bradbury was present just long enough to present the Ray Bradbury Award to Harlan Ellison.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Best Script

2001 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Westin Crown Center Hotel, Kansas City, MO on April 27, 2002

Several panels were scheduled covering the role of the indie press, self promotion, and SF in Russia.  In addition, the local Waldenbooks had a Nebula display in their front window and hosted the Friday night autographing.  Esther Friesner served as toastmaster and there was no keynote speaker.  Betty Ballantine received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

2002 Nebula Awards®

Presented at Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 19, 2003

The now-traditional book signing was held on Friday night at the Philadelphia Free Library.  Panels on Saturday covered literary trusts and book promotions.   Harry Harrison served as emcee, there was no keynote speaker. Charles Brown announced the creation of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle by Paul Allen.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

2003 Nebula Award Winners

 Presented at Westin Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington on April 17, 2004

Thursday evening saw a reception to start the weekend.  It was followed by Science Friday, with panels dedicated to a series of papers on the biological, physical, and theoretical sciences.  Friday evening was the mass autographing at a local Barnes and Noble. After the autographing Deathmetal band Blöödhag performed and the nominee certificates and pins were given out.  Writer’s Saturday meant most of the Saturday panels were devoted to the business of writing: e-books, e-rights, e-piracy, web publications, etc.  Neal Stephenson served as toastmaster for the banquet, aided by a toaster which signaled a speaker’s time was up when it popped out fresh toast.  Microsoft Senior VP of Research Rick Rashid was the keynote speaker and Jeff Bezos also attended.  The schedule continued on Sunday after the banquet with a preview tour of the soon to open Science Fiction Museum.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

2004 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Allegro Hotel, Chicago, Illinois on April 30, 2005

Thursday saw a day-long symposium in conjunction with the Illinois State Bar Association on copyright matters.  On Friday, tours were offered to Argonne National Laboratory & Fermilab and a complete day of on-site panels took place as well.  Due to the size of the Borders which was hosting the mass autographing, the event was spread out over two sessions on Friday and Sunday to give all the authors a chance to participate. At the Friday night reception, a phone call was placed to Jack Williamson on the occasion of his 97th birthday.  There were more panels, as well as the Business Meeting, on Saturday.  Neil Gaiman served as Toastmaster and there was no keynote speech. When Anne McCaffrey was announced as the Grand Master at the banquet, her son and grandchildren greeted the announcement by creating a “thread fall” for her with Silly string.  All the original members of SFWA were brought up to sing “Happy birthday” on the fortieth anniversary of the organization and cut into a cake. The banquet centerpieces, dragon puppets, were auctioned off with the $1100 in proceeds going to the Emergency Medical Fund.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Script

2005 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, Arizona on May 6, 2006

Following a Thursday evening reception, Friday had two tracks of programming, one track of readings, the other of panels.  A Mass signing was held in a banquet room on Friday evening. Programming covered topics of interest to both the business and technical end of writing. Richard Curtis spoke on the bankruptcy of iBooks.  Following Chicago’s lead, a silent auction of Lisa Snellings-Clark’s centerpieces raised $1,540 and a charity auction run by Ellen Klages with help from Harlan Ellison raised a further $6,041.  Connie Willis served as Toastmaster

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Script

2006 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Marriott Financial Center, New York, New York on May 12, 2007

The weekend opened with panels, workshops, and readings on Friday as well as a Magazine Showcase.  There was a 75 author autographing at Borders and tours of Haunted New York and Old New York.  John Douglas organized a speed dating event for Agents/Authors.  Ron Moore, the producer of Battlestar Galactica, was the toastmaster. Tom Doherty received a Silver Bullet Award from Congressman Charles B. Rangel.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Script

2007 Nebula Award Winners

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Photos by Milaka Falk

Presented at Omni Austin Hotel Downtown in Austin, Texas on April 26, 2008

The weekend was very lightly programmed, leaving attendees time to wander the streets of Austin. There were art galleries, museums, restaurants, and the capitol building to peruse, and many went to see the swarms of bats fly out from the bridge at sunset (which didn’t happen because of the wet weather). On Thursday the hospitality lounge, sporting a bar and very popular pool table, was open for early arrivals, as was registration. Friday evening was the nominee reception followed by a mass autographing sponsored by Book People, bringing in several tables worth of books. The 200 or so attendees encountered warm, muggy Texas weather and a few spectacular nighttime thunderstorms.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Script

2008 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Covell Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom, UCLA in Los Angeles, California on April 25, 2009

Originally scheduled to be run by LASFS, this year’s Nebula was instead put together by Christina Valada, who suffered a catastrophic house fire about one month before the event.  The hotel, located in the Sepulvada Pass on Hollywood Blvd, was not within walking distance of everything and no mass autographing was scheduled, although several authors autographed as part of the L.A. Times Book Festival.   There was little programming, although there was a reception on Friday evening and on Saturday there was a brunch mixer with the Writers Guild of America.  Vans carried the attendees to the UCLA campus where the banquet was held with Janis Ian as the emcee who sang a science fictional version of her song “At Seventeen.”  The keynote speaker was producer Chuck Lorre of The Big Bang Theory.  The Bradbury Award was presented to Joss Whedon, who sent a video acceptance.  There was also a script award presented by Wil Wheaton.  Next year, the Bradbury Award will replace the Nebula Script Award.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Script

2009 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Cocoa Beach, Florida on May 15, 2010

Friday afternoon saw perhaps the most impressive bit of Nebula Award Weekend entertainment with most of the attendees bussed to the Banana River  viewing site to watch what was supposed to be the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.  Because the local Barnes and Noble was so far from the hotel, they set up an ersatz store at the hotel for the signing, and apparently did more business at the hotel than the store did all day.  The signing was followed by an outdoor reception where Neal Barrett, Jr. was named Author Emeritus.  Saturday programming had panels on the future of publishing, financial planning, and social networking. The banquet was emceed by Allen Steele, who spoke about his time as a journalist covering NASA and David Levine gave a talk about his experiences with the Mars Desert Research Station. The ceremony was streamed across the internet in real time and there was a viewing party held in New York sponsored by John Ordover. Ceremony Highlights

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2010 Nebula Award Winners

Nebula award winners presented at Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on May 21, 2011

The local Barnes and Noble refused to host a signing, so the coordinators arranged to create a bookstore at the hotel, allowing authors to sell their books through the “store” and also arranging to have books sent in from Ingram for sale.  This meant that SFWA was able to make a profit from the sales of books.  The bookstore was open throughout the weekend and did booming business during the mass autographing, also held at the hotel on Friday evening. Tours were offered to the Air & Space Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, and the Library of Congress.  Panels and workshops ran through the day on Friday and Saturday. Michael Swanwick served as toastmaster with Michael Dirda providing the keynote address. The ceremony was streamed across the internet in real time and there was a viewing party held in New York sponsored by John Ordover.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2011 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia on May 19, 2012

SFWA arranged several tours, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Air and Space Museum, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.  Thursday evening saw a whiskey tasting hosted by Mary Robinette Kowal and Myke Cole. Programming began on Friday and included workshops for we design and e-book design. There were a total of seventeen panels. The “instant SFWA bookstore” from the previous year was repeated and the booksigning was again held on-site, with 56 authors participating. Walter Jon Williams served as toastmaster and astronaut Mike Fincke gave a humorous keynote address, both of them making use of AV equipment. The ceremony was streamed across the internet in real time and there was a viewing party held in New York sponsored by John Ordover.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

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2012 Nebula Award Winners

Presented at San José Hilton in San José, California on May 18, 2013

On Thursday and Friday, there were tours of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and the Computer History Museum.  That evening, SF in SF, a San Francisco reading series, held its monthly event at the hotel in conjunction with the Nebulas.  Programming began on Friday, with nine panels and presentations.  Once again book sales and the autographing were on-site, although this time the book sales were conducted by Borderlands Books, which came down from San Francisco. Sixty-two authors participated in a room that was too small. There was more programming on Saturday after the Business Meeting. Robert Silverberg served as toastmaster and there was no keynote speaker.  For the fourth year in a row, the event was streamed over the internet and John Ordover hosted a viewing party in New York.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2013 Nebula Award Winners

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Presented at San José Marriott, San José, California on May 17, 2014

Panels were held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, at times with three panels at the same time.  Special Honoree Frank M. Robinson had to cancel his appearance at the last minute and an interview that Robin Wayne Bailey was meant to conduct turned into a panel discussion with Robinson’s friends talking about him.  Unfortunately, a series of major communications gaffes meant that Robinson’s award was not announced at the Saturday night ceremony.  For the second year in a row, the Nebula award winners weekend was held at the same time and in adjoining facilities to the Big WOW Comic convention, with many attendees in the same hotel.  There was some coordination with several Nebula attendees presenting a panel at Big WOW on Saturday.  A technical failure meant slides were not able to be shown at the Ceremony, so the In Memoriam slides and Toastmaster Ellen Klages’s slides were shown by pointing a video camera at a laptop and iPad to varying degrees of success.  For the first time, all four Nebula Awards® (as well as the Norton) were presented to women.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2014 Nebula Award Winners

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Nebula award winners presented at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on June 6, 2015.

This marked the Fiftieth Anniversary of SFWA. Programming included the second day-long ISBA/SFWA Legal Symposium on Protecting and Preserving Author Rights, and a Self-Publication Workshop as well as a three tracks of heavily pro-oriented panels. Nick Offerman was a controversial Toastmaster, and although many attendees enjoyed his bits, some were not amused. Tours were offered to Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab. “Worldbuilders of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” a portrait project about the people who create these wonderful worlds, photographed on large format film, started at the 2015 Nebula award winners weekend.

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Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2015 Nebula Award Winners

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Presented at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 2016.

This was the Fiftieth Anniversary for Nebula award winners. For the second year in a row, the Nebulas were held in Chicago. The Weekend was renamed the SFWA Nebula Conference and presented perhaps the most extensive professional writer oriented programming ever, with invited guests such as Patreon, Kobo, Kickstarter, and many others, in addition to the third SFWA Legal Seminar in conjunction with the Chicago Bar Association. John Hodgman was a particularly entertaining Toastmaster. The ceremony was preceded by a truly impressive performance of Henry Lien’s “Radio SFWA” by Emperor Stardust and the Eunuchs of the Forbidden City. This year the Alternate Universe acceptance speeches were delivered in the main ballroom, bringing them to greater attention. The conference was held simultaneously with the Chicago Book Expo America, with some crossover of authors and events, including a very well attended Mass Autographing with 86 authors present.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2016 Nebula Award Winners

Astronaut Dr. Kjell Lindgren speaking at the Nebula Award ceremony. (photo by Jason Sanford)

Presented at Pittsburgh Marriott City Center on May 20, 2017

This was the second year the Nebula award winners were presented at the re-named SFWA Nebula Conference, with several tracks of business-oriented programming aimed at both traditionally published and Indie authors. For the second time, sponsors such as Patreon, Draft2Digital, Kickstarter, and Pronoun provided programming and answered questions. To address problems associated with selling books at the event by bookstores, this year SFWA itself sponsored a Book Depot run by member Sean Wallace, which was a resounding success. Another innovation was “Office Hours,” time set aside for one-on-one conversations with authorities on publishing-related topics. For the second time, the Mentor program was a big hit, with more than 60 participants. Toastmaster Kjell Lindgren, an astronaut, told interesting stories about his time in space and audience members will never think about feet in space the same way again. The banquet tables were decorated with charming robots assembled from vintage materials by artist Don L. Jones. Attendees received many free books this year, perhaps more than at any previous event.

The 2017 Nebula Award, Norton, and Bradbury winners. (photo by Jason Sanford)

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2017 Nebula Award Winners

Toastmasters Martin P. Robinson and Telly Monster get up close and personal with Patrick Rothfuss before he presents the Nebula Award for Best Novel. (photo by Karen Yun-Lutz)

Presented at Pittsburgh Marriott City Center on May 19, 2018

For the second year in a row, the SFWA Nebula Conference was held in Pittsburgh, building on past experiences to present a superlative event. Many recent innovations, such as the Mentor Program and Book Depot, were even more successful than previously. Programming was also expanded, with specific business topics for both beginner and more advanced indie and traditional writers. Sponsors like Kickstarter and Draft2Digital were available to present options and answer questions. The highlight of the conference from an education perspective was a much-anticipated detailed analysis of science fiction and fantasy book sales presented by the Data Guy. It did not disappoint. The Book Depot had a wider range of titles, as well as an extremely popular SFWA Decoder Ring, which became the fashion accessory of the weekend.   “Office Hours,” — time set aside for one-on-one conversations with authorities on publishing-related topics — were augmented by “Ignite Talks” – short, snapshot talks on a variety of subjects. Toastmaster Martin P. Robinson, a puppeteer who has worked for the Jim Henson Company for 37 years, livened up the ceremony with appearances from a number of his muppet cohorts, including Telly Monster and Mr. Snuffleupagus.   The banquet tables were again decorated with charming robots assembled from vintage materials by artist Don L. Jones. After the official ceremony, the Alternate Universe Acceptance Speeches were another emotional highlight. The bounty of free books available this year was nearly overwhelming.

The 2018 Nebula award winners, Norton, O’Donnell, Bradbury, Solstice, and Grand Master winners. (photo by Karen Yun-Lutz)

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

2018 Nebula Award Winners

Lee Martindale, Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award winner, receives her trophy from former President John Scalzi. (photo by Richard Man)

Presented at the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills, CA on May 18, 2019

The SFWA Nebula award winners Conference returned to the west coast for the first time since 2014 and to Los Angeles for the first time since 2009. The conference continued to expand popular programs such as the Mentor program, the Book Depot, the “Office hours” series of informal discussions, and the “Ignite Talks,” which invited short, fast paced expert presentations on previously announced topics. This year boasted the largest Nebula Conference ever and space limitations required that membership be capped several weeks before the Conference took place and precluded at-the-door sales. Gay Haldeman again hosted a breakfast for writers’ support teams. Programming took advantage of our proximity to Hollywood to include several screenwriters. Lunches sponsored in the hospitality suite by PublishDrive and Draft2Digital proved very popular.

The Nebula award winners presentation was hosted by NASA systems engineer Bobak Ferdowsi, who came to national attention as “Mohawk Guy” following the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012. Ferdowsi gave an entertaining talk on the tribulations of unmanned space exploration. A surprise presenter at the award ceremony was the appearance of R2D2 carrying the envelope that contained the name of the recipient of the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. This year’s ceremony also saw the presentation of the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

This year’s Conference also saw the introduction of some video content, with a screening of the documentary The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, followed by a discussion and SFWA member Marc Scott Zicree showing the pilot for his series Space Command. The weekend ended with a mass watch party for the final episode of Game of Thrones.

Novel Nebula winner Mary Robinette Kowal celebrates her win with a tiny, real astronaut. (Photo by Richard Man)

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Game Writing

2019 Nebula Award Winners

These Nebula award winners were presented online on May 30, 2020.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Game Writing

2020 Nebula Award Winners

These Nebula award winners were presented online on June 5, 2021.

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Game Writing

2021 Nebula Award Winners

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Best Game Writing

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