Nebula Award Winning Novels
Here is a complete list of official Nebula Award winners for Best Novel. Someone starting to read science fiction can do worse than to start here.
Seeker
![]() | author: Jack McDevitt asin: 0441013759 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
With Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space.
Camouflage
![]() | author: Joe Haldeman asin: 0441012523 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it.
Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home--but the Chameleon has decided there's only room for one.
Paladin of Souls
![]() | author: Lois McMaster Bujold asin: 0380818612 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
The Speed of Dark
![]() | author: Elizabeth Moon asin: 0345481399 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
Corporate life in early 21st-century America is even more ruthless than it was at the turn of the millennium. Lou Arrendale, well compensated for his remarkable pattern-recognition skills, enjoys his job and expects never to lose it. But he has a new boss, a man who thinks Lou and the others in his building are a liability. Lou and his coworkers are autistic.
American Gods: A Novel
![]() | author: Neil Gaiman asin: 0060558121 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $10.17 USD |
American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit.
The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)
![]() | author: Catherine Asaro asin: 0812568834 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
The beautiful young noblewoman Kamoj Quanta Argali rules a declining province on a distant planet that has lost the high technology of its original colonists. To save her people, Kamoj has contracted to marry Jax Ironbridge, the moody, unpredictable ruler of a prosperous land.
Darwin's Radio
![]() | author: Greg Bear asin: 0345435249 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
All the best thrillers contain the solution to a mystery, and the mystery in this intellectually sparkling scientific thriller is more crucial and stranger than most. Why are people turning against their neighbors and their newborn children? And what is causing an epidemic of still births?
Parable of the Talents
![]() | author: Octavia E. Butler asin: 0446675784 binding: Paperback list price: $13.99 USD amazon price: $11.89 USD |
Octavia Butler tackles the creation of a new religion, the making of a god, and the ultimate fate of humanity in her Earthseed series, which began with Parable of the Sower, and now continues with Parable of the Talents.
Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)
![]() | author: Joe Haldeman asin: 0441005667 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World.
The Moon and the Sun
![]() | author: Vonda N. McIntyre asin: 0671567667 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 |
In this rich and engrossing tale, Vonda N. McIntyre proves once again that her plotting and mastery of language are among the best in the business. The Moon and the Sun, which won the 1997 Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is the story of Marie-Josèphe, a young lady in the court of Louis XIV.










