Nebula Award
Flowers for Algernon
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Nebula Award Winner:
1966
 | author: Daniel Keyes asin: 0156030306 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $9.60 USD |
Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula.
Babel-17/Empire Star
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Nebula Award Winner:
1966
 | author: Samuel R. Delany asin: 0375706690 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $10.36 USD |
Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction.
Einstein Intersection
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Nebula Award Winner:
1967
 | author: Samuel R. Delany Neil Gaiman asin: 0819563366 binding: Paperback list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $11.16 USD |
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology.
Rite of Passage
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Nebula Award Winner:
1968
 | author: Alexei, Panshin asin: 0978907825 binding: Paperback list price: $16.99 USD amazon price: $11.55 USD |
In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Man lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero's Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world.
Time of Changes
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Nebula Award Winner:
1971
 | author: Robert Silverberg asin: 0446340618 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $3.95 USD amazon price: $3.95 |
Three thousand years after Earth's colonization of the planet Borthan, stories of self-serving hypocrisy that occurred among the first arrivals have bred a culture that forbids emotional sharing and denies the naturally human concept of 'self.' Kinnall Darival breaks the strict code of the Covenant to record the sordid details of his rebellious life from the days of his royal youth to self-appoint
Man Plus (SF Masterworks) (Sf Masterworks 29)
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Nebula Award Winner:
1976
 | author: Frederik Pohl asin: 1857989465 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 |
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.
Timescape (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
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Nebula Award Winner:
1980
 | author: Gregory Benford asin: 185798935X binding: Paperback list price: $14.45 USD amazon price: $14.45 |
Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization.
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)
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Nebula Award Winner:
1981
 | author: Gene Wolfe asin: 0312890176 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD |
One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes.
No Enemy But Time
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Nebula Award Winner:
1982
 | author: Michael Bishop asin: 057507096X binding: Paperback |
Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists.
The Falling Woman
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Nebula Award Winner:
1987
 | author: Pat Murphy asin: 0312854064 binding: Paperback list price: $11.95 USD amazon price: $11.95 |
Elizabeth Waters, an archeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archeological discoveries and the realization that she might be going mad. Then on a dig in the Yucatan, the shadow of a Mayan priestess speaks to her.
