Nebula Awards

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Established in 1965, the Nebula Awards are given annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for the best novel, novella, novelette and short story of that year. The prestigious awards recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy that have been published in the United States. Past Nebula Award winners include Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sarah Pinsker, Arthur C. Clarke, Ann Leckie, Frederik Pohl, and N. K. Jemisin.
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    • The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
    • Written by: Jeff VanderMeer
    • Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick
    • Series: Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 2018-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • 2014 winner
    • Best novel
      Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation was recognized for its chilling power with the 2014 Nebula Award for best novel. Four women set off on an expedition to an abandoned area known as Area X. They are the twelfth group to scope out the area. Those involved in previous expeditions fell victim to trauma, cancer and other tragedies. Will these brave women beat the odds and survive?

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    • Written by: Ann Leckie
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Series: Imperial Radch, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2015-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 2014 winner
    • Best novel
      Ann Leckie’s space opera, set thousands of years in the future, earned the best novel award in 2014. In this futuristic world, the main power is the expansionist Radch empire, which uses spaceships controlled by AIs, who use ancillaries (human bodies) as soldiers. Ancillary Justice tells the story of Breq, the surviving human part of the artificial fighting machine.

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    • Written by: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 2011 winner
    • Best novel
      A gripping novel by Welsh-Canadian author Jo Walton, Among Others won the Nebula Award for best novel in 2011. It revolves around Mor, a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood and manage her gift for magic. Casting spells and talking to fairies couldn’t save her twin sister from dying. Mor runs away from home and gets sent to a boarding school. She knows she has to keep magic a secret. But it’s her only escape from loneliness, her complicated reality and her dangerous mother.

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    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren, Connie Willis
    • Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 3
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2010-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • 2010 winner
    • Best novel
      Connie Willis’ Blackout is the third instalment of her Oxford Time Travel series and the winner of the Nebula Award for best novel in 2010. This gripping historical fiction listen follows historians studying at Oxford University in the year 2060. They get the opportunity to time travel back to a period they wish to study—the Second World War—and get trapped in 1940.

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    • Written by: Paolo Bacigalupi
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2009-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • 2009 winner
    • Best novel
      Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut novel won the best novel award in 2009. This dystopian story is set in an environmentally devastated 23rd-century Thailand, where genetic engineering has left permanent scars on society. The title character is windup girl Emiko, a genetically-modified human made in Japan as a "companion" for a wealthy executive. She struggles to survive in an environment she wasn’t designed for.

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Michael Chabon
    • Narrated by: Peter Riegert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2016-07-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • 2007 winner
    • Best novel
      The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is an alternate Jewish history written by Michael Chabon, which won the Nebula Award for best novel in 2007. In this fictional work, set in the post-WWII era, many Jewish people migrate to a settlement in Alaska, instead of Israel, in search of a new home.

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    • An Alex Benedict Novel
    • Written by: Jack McDevitt
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck, Jack McDevitt (Introduction)
    • Series: Alex Benedict, Book 3
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2008-06-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 2006 winner
    • Best novel
      Thousands of years after a colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony’s ships. But the discovery raises more questions than it answers. Jack McDevitt’s Seeker won the 2006 Nebula Award for best novel.

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    • Written by: Joe Haldeman
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2008-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 2005 winner
    • In Camouflage, an artifact is found seven miles below the sea’s surface. The Navy’s efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it—setting in motion a scientific race to retrieve it and discover what it is and where it came from. This title won Joe Haldeman the best novel Nebula Award in 2005.

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    • Written by: Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Series: World of the Five Gods: Chalion, Book 3
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2005-03-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 2004 winner
    • Best novel
      Paladin of Souls earned Lois McMaster Bujold the Nebula Award for best novel in 2004. The third title from the World of the Five Gods: Chalion series sees Royina Ista, a middle-aged widow, embark on a pilgrimage through the land of Chalion. She starts with few prospects but discovers her power along the way.

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    • Written by: Elizabeth Moon
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2008-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 2003 winner
    • Best novel
      The Speed of Dark, written by Elizabeth Moon, won the Nebula Award for best novel in 2003. This science fiction thriller imagines a world in the near future in which a cure for autism is discovered. With this treatment, Lou would become just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself?

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    • Written by: Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2003-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • 2003 winner
    • Best novella

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    • Written by: Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, full cast
    • Series: American Gods, Book 1
    • Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149 ratings
    • 2003 winner
    • Best novel
      The Nebula Award for best novel in 2003 went to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. In this suspenseful fantasy novel, Shadow, an ex-convict, gets released from prison early when his wife, Laura, gets killed in a car accident. Shadow discovers that Laura died alongside his best friend, with whom she had been having a secret affair. Distraught, he takes a job as a bodyguard for a mysterious con man and gets caught up in a murky, dangerous world.

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    • A Novel of the Skolian Empire
    • Written by: Catherine Asaro
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Series: Skolian Empire (published order), Book 6, Skolian Empire (chronological order), Book 10
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2004-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 2001 winner
    • Best novel
      The Quantum Rose, from Catherine Asaro’s Skolian Empire series, chronicles the lives of the members of the ruling family of the Empire in the distant interstellar future, weaving an intriguing blend of action, romance and hard science fiction. It claimed the Nebula Award for best novel back in 2001.

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    • Written by: Greg Bear
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: Darwin (abridged), Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 1999-12-10
    • Language: English
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    • 2000 winner
    • Best novel
      When a mass grave is uncovered in Russia, top scientists are forced to question everything they believed about human origins. In their quest for answers, they pursue a mysterious flu-like disease that has been dormant for millions of years—and is now resurfacing. A thrilling listen, Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear was named the year’s best novel at the 2000 Nebula Awards.

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    • Written by: Octavia E. Butler
    • Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd, Peter Jay Fernandez, Sisi Aisha Johnson
    • Series: Earthseed, Book 2
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • 1999 winner
    • Best novel
      In Parable of the Talents, America is left in environmental and economic ruin. Assault, theft, sexual abuse, slavery and murder are commonplace. A bigoted tyrant wins his way into the White House. He is opposed by Lauren Olamina, founder of a new faith that teaches "God Is Change." But is her vision of change the answer to people’s prayers? Octavia E. Butler won the best novel award in 1999 for this epic sci-fi fantasy title.

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    • Written by: Joe Haldeman
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Series: The Forever War, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • 1998 winner
    • Best novel
      War in the 21st century is fought by "soldierboys" in Joe Haldeman’s novel, which won the 1998 best novel Nebula. Remote-controlled mechanical monsters are run by human soldiers who hard-wire their brains together to form each unit. Julian is one of these dedicated soldiers—until he inadvertently kills a young boy.

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