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

Nebula Award Winner: 
2006
cover of Seekerauthor: Jack McDevitt
asin: 0441013759
binding: Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
2005
cover of Camouflageauthor: Joe Haldeman
asin: 0441012523
binding: Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
2004
Hugo Award Winner: 
2004
cover of Paladin of Soulsauthor: Lois McMaster Bujold
asin: 0380818612
binding: Mass Market Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
2003
cover of The Speed of Darkauthor: Elizabeth Moon
asin: 0345481399
binding: Mass Market Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
2002
Hugo Award Winner: 
2002
cover of American Gods: A Novelauthor: Neil Gaiman
asin: 0060558121
binding: Paperback
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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)

Nebula Award Winner: 
2001
cover of The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)author: Catherine Asaro
asin: 0812568834
binding: Mass Market Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
2000
cover of Darwin's Radioauthor: Greg Bear
asin: 0345435249
binding: Mass Market Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
1999
cover of Parable of the Talentsauthor: Octavia E. Butler
asin: 0446675784
binding: Paperback
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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)

Nebula Award Winner: 
1998
Hugo Award Winner: 
1998
cover of Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)author: Joe Haldeman
asin: 0441005667
binding: Mass Market Paperback
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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

Nebula Award Winner: 
1997
cover of The Moon and the Sunauthor: Vonda N. McIntyre
asin: 0671567667
binding: Mass Market Paperback
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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.