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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 Terminal Experiment

    • Written by: Robert J. Sawyer
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 1995 winner
    • Best novel
      In The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer, an experiment goes terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his personality. All three have escaped into the electronic matrix—one of them is a killer. This sci-fi thriller won the best novel Nebula, in 1995.

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    • Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

    • Written by: Mike Resnick
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Mike Resnick
    • Series: Birthright (Resnick)
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 1994 winner
    • Best novella
      Thousands of years after humans have become extinct, a party of alien archaeologists try to uncover and grasp the mysteries of the human race as they excavate in a gorge on planet Earth. Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is a gripping exploration of human origins, which won author Mike Resnick the Nebula Award for best novella in 1994.

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    • The Martian Child

    • Written by: David Gerrold
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2006-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 1994 winner
    • Best novelette
      Gerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a hyperactive eight-year-old who desperately wants a father's love. But the boy is so insecure, odd and baffling that Gerrold feels he must be an alien. David Gerrold’s The Martian Child, winner of the 1994 Nebula for best novelette, is funny, endearing, and a beautiful testament to fatherhood.

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    • Red Mars

    • Written by: Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Series: Mars Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 23 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • 1993 winner
    • Best novel
      In Red Mars, winner of the best novel Nebula in 1993, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a near future in which a group of international scientists colonize Mars and make it habitable for humans. The first installment of the Mars Trilogy stands out for its detailed visions of future technological marvels and realistic grasp of the universal fear of change.

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    • Doomsday Book

    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
    • Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • 1992 winner
    • Best novel
      Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travel series won another Nebula Award for best novel in 1992. Doomsday Book takes listeners on a thrilling trip through time to discover the things that make us most human when 21st-century Oxford student Kivrin gets trapped in the Dark Ages, one of the deadliest eras in human history and struggles to survive.

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    • Beggars in Spain

    • Written by: Nancy Kress
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Series: Sleepless, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2009-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 1991 winner
    • Best novella
      In a world where the slightest edge can decide between success and failure, Leisha is beautiful and extraordinarily intelligent. She has also been genetically modified to never require sleep. Beggars in Spain, the first installment of the Sleepless series, earned Nancy Kress the Nebula Award for best novella in 1991.

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    • The Last of the Winnebagos

    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-03
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • 1990 winner
    • Best novella
      In the Nebula winner for the best novella of 1990, Connie Willis pulls listeners into a world where dogs have become extinct after an epidemic. The Humane Society has been granted powers to protect the remaining animals. As the Society investigates the death of a jackal, its attention turns to a photojournalist whose dog was one of the last to survive.

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    • Tehanu

    • The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
    • Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
    • Series: The Earthsea Quartet, Book 4
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • 1990 winner
    • Best novel
      The fourth instalment of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1990. A young priestess and a powerful wizard escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan. Now, the priestess is a farmer’s widow, and the wizard is a broken old man mourning the powers he lost. They join forces again to help a physically and emotionally scarred child.

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    • Schrodinger's Kitten

    • Written by: George Alec Effinger
    • Narrated by: Amy Bruce
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2007-08-30
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • 1988 winner
    • Best novelette
      A 12-year-old girl, Jehan is like a kitten, frightened and tormented by unsettling visions in the Islamic slum of Budayeen. During the festival marking the end of Ramadan, it is here that she must kill a boy she has never met—a boy that her visions show her may one day do her great harm. Schrödinger's Kitten by George Alec Effinger won the 1989 Nebula Award for best novelette.

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    • Speaker for the Dead

    • Written by: Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Ender Saga, Book 2, The Enderverse, Book 12
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2001-12-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • 1986 winner
    • Best novel
      Ender Wiggin disappeared after a terrible war. Years later, a second alien race has been discovered in the Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card’s Ender saga and winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for best novel. The aliens are strange and frightening, and humans are dying. Ender is the only one who dares to confront the mystery.

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    • Ender's Game

    • Special 20th Anniversary Edition
    • Written by: Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
    • Series: The Enderverse, Book 6, The Ender Saga, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2001-12-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings
    • 1985 winner
    • Best novelnOrson Scott Card’s work of military science fiction took home the best novel Nebula in 1985. Ender’s Game tells the story of Ender Wiggin, who gets sent to Battle School, an academy located in orbit. There, he begins his training as a soldier who will eventually battle against an alien race called "Buggers."

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    • Sailing to Byzantium

    • Written by: Robert Silverberg
    • Narrated by: Tom Parker
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2004-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 1985 winner
    • Best novella
      In this vision of 50th-century Earth, people live in beautiful, richly detailed reconstructions of historical cities. These glorious cities get dismantled and reimagined, and there are never more than five in existence at one time. It might sound like a dream world—but ghosts and monsters inhabit it. Sailing to Byzantium earned Robert Silverberg the best novella Nebula, in 1985.

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    • Neuromancer

    • Written by: William Gibson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Series: Sprawl Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • 1985 winner
    • Best novelnWilliam Gibson has been named as a nominee for Nebula Awards multiple times and won the best novel award in 1985 for Neuromancer. He also receives the prestigious Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer offers a potent and compelling vision of the future.

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    • Press Enter

    • Written by: John Varley
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2008-09-17
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • 1984 winner
    • Best novella
      The winner of the 1984 Nebula Award for best novella, John Varley’s Press Enter is a part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary. A troubled war vet receives a pre-recorded phone message instructing him to go inside the house next door, where he finds his neighbour shot dead.

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    • Startide Rising

    • The Uplift Saga, Book 2
    • Written by: David Brin
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Series: Uplift Saga, Book 2
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 1983 winner
    • Best novel
      In David Brin’s Startide Rising, winner of the 1983 best novel Nebula, the first starship designed and crewed by dolphins discovers a derelict armada with evidence of the first sentient species ever. The starship starts a war between dozens of galactic races eager to use the information for their advancement.

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    • Blood Music

    • Written by: Greg Bear
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2008-10-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 1983 winner
    • Best novelette

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    • Timescape

    • Written by: Gregory Benford
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Pete Bradbury
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-27
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 1980 winner
    • Best novel
      In a future plagued by environmental and social disaster and social instability, physicist John Renfrew comes up with a plan to use time-traveling particles to send a warning to the past. Timescape, written by American science fiction author and astrophysicist Gregory Benford, was named the best novel in the 1980 Nebula Awards.

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    • The Fountains of Paradise

    • Written by: Arthur C. Clarke
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2009-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 1980 winner
    • Best novel
      The winner of the 1980 best novel Nebula is set in the 22nd century. In Arthur C. Clarke’s The Fountains of Paradise, visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan works on the most grandiose engineering project of all time—a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an island in the Indian Ocean.

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    • Dreamsnake

    • Written by: Vonda N. McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2008-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 1978 winner
    • Best novel
      Set on an Earth devastated by a nuclear holocaust, a woman who is a healer named Snake travels the world, tending to the sick, the injured and the dying. Her companion is the alien dreamsnake with the power to ease the fear and pain of death if people let it come close enough to bite them. Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre won the 1978 Nebula Award for best novel.

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