Nebula Awards - Novels - 1990s
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. was founded in 1965 by SF author and editor Damon Knight. It was originally known as the Science Fiction Writers of America and the acronym SFWA was kept when the name changed, so the single "F" does double duty.
The organization's first secretary-treasurer, Lloyd Biggle, Jr. suggested an annual anthology be published, and this idea became the basis for the Nebula Awards, first given for the year 1965, when Frank Herbert's Dune won as best novel.
Nebula Awards 1990s Table of Contents
- Who Votes & What Is Eligible
- 1999 Winner: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- 1999 Nominees
- 1998 Winner: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
- 1998 Nominees
- 1997 Winner: The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre
- 1997 Nominees
- 1997 Nominees
- 1996 Winner: Slow River by Nicola Griffith
- 1996 Nominees
- 1995 Winner: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
- 1995 Nominees
- 1994 Winner: Moving Mars by Greg Bear
- 1994 Nominees
- 1994 Nominees
- 1993 Winner: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1993 Nominees
- 1992 Winner: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- 1992 Nominees
- 1991 Winner: Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
- 1991 Nominees
- 1990 Winner: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1990 Nominees
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Who Votes & What Is Eligible
A work's eligibility was previously considered on a rolling basis. It was eligible for one year from the date of publication, so a work could have been nominated in either the calendar year of publication or the following calendar year. It could only be nominated once. In 2008 the eligibility rules were changed and eligibility now goes by the calendar year of publication.
For more detailed information about eligibility and rules, see the link to the Nebula Awards site at the bottom of this page.
In the following list, books are listed in their year of eligibility, therefore, Nebulas for 1996 were presented at the awards banquet in 1997.
1999 Winner: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents
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In her 1994 Nebula-nominated novel Sower, black teenager Lauren Olamina invented a religion called Earthseed, based on some simple proverbs she had learned. Her followers create the successful rural community of Acorn. In Parable of the Talents Christian fundamentalism gains political power under a new U.S. President who seems modeled after Pat Robertson. The extremists destroy Acorn and imprison Olamina, while her daughter is taken to be raised in a fundamentalist setting. Her impassioned belief in Earthseed helps her survive, but may also lead to estrangement between her and her daughter.
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1999 Nominees
1998 Winner: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Forever Peace (Forever War, Book 2)
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Although it's not a sequel to Haldeman's Hugo- and Nebula-winning Forever War, it does share some similarities. Professor Julian Class spends time each month wired to a "soldierboy" which allows wars to be fought remotely. The US is engaged in a war in the third world. Along with his mentor Dr. Amelia Harding, he discovers there's a project out by Jupiter that could destroy the universe. Also, he learns that the linking technology used in the soldierboys can be used to turn people into pacifists if they stay linked with others for two weeks. Those seeking to end war forever try to stay one jump ahead of assassins and people who think we should all go out not with a whimper, but a bang - a Big Bang.
Order the book from Amazon.co.uk: Forever Peace (Sf Masterworks)
1998 Nominees
1997 Winner: The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre
The Moon and the Sun
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This alternate history tale is set in the time of France's Louis XIV, the Sun King. Marie-Josephe is a young lady of the court. Her brother Yves returns from a naturalist voyage with two sea monsters, on dead, one alive. The king wants to test the living creature to see if it holds the key to immortality. Marie-Josephe learns the creature is intelligent and only wants to be set free. She defies her brother, the king and the Pope, determined to do what is right.
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1997 Nominees
1997 Nominees
1996 Winner: Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Slow River
Amazon Price: $4.94 (as of 06/03/2012)
In a dystopian near future, Lore van de Oest, born into a wealthy bioengineering family, is kidnapped for ransom. When she learns her family won't pay, she escapes. She is saved after her escape by the streetwise Spanner, who teaches her to exploit the weaknesses of the Net and people. Lore learns she must face her own demons one at a time before she can learn to trust again.
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1996 Nominees
1995 Winner: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
The Terminal Experiment
Amazon Price: $12.98 (as of 06/03/2012)
Dr. Peter Hobson creates three electronic clones of himself in order to study death and the afterlife. One doesn't have any memory of physical existence in order to represent life after death. A second lacks knowledge of death and aging, representing immortality. The third is a control and is left unaltered. After their creation, all three escape into cyberspace, where one begins to kill.
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1995 Nominees
1994 Winner: Moving Mars by Greg Bear
Moving Mars: A Novel
Amazon Price: $0.46 (as of 06/03/2012)
Revolution comes to Earth's colony on Mars, and Casseia Majumdar goes from student activist to president of the new Federal Republic of Mars. As the conflict between Earth and Mars escalates, Bear introduces a startling idea that takes the novel from political thriller to hard science thriller. His book is one of the best combinations of politics and hard science of the decade.
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1994 Nominees
1994 Nominees
1993 Winner: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
Amazon Price: $3.88 (as of 06/03/2012)
The first book of Robinson's Mars trilogy concerns the First Hundred settlers, their exploration of the planet and plans to terraform it. The settlers' success brings more people to Mars from overpopulated Earth. Factions develop and on both Mars and Earth they try to decide whether terraforming should begin right away or whether there should be more study of the planet before any changes are introduced. In this vast novel, Robinson creates not only a believable future on Mars, but also well-developed and intensely human characters to populate the planet.
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1993 Nominees
1992 Winner: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Doomsday Book
Amazon Price: $3.78 (as of 06/03/2012)
This tale of mid-21st-century time travelers from Oxford University is a good deal more serious than her later Hugo winner involving the same project. Kivrin, a history student is to be sent back to 1320, but due to an epidemic, a technician lands her in 1348, at the outset of the Black Plague. As the story of Kivrin and those searching for her through time progresses, the many human concerns, hopes, and fears of the medieval and modern characters weave together toward a dark and deep conclusion.
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1992 Nominees
1991 Winner: Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Stations of the Tide
Amazon Price: $10.98 (as of 06/03/2012)
The planet Miranda is drowning under the weight of its own tides while a "magician" who is using proscribed technology keeps the people under his control. A bureaucrat from the Division of Technology Transfer investigates in this novel that gives hard science fiction a surrealistic edge.
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1991 Nominees
1990 Winner: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4)
Amazon Price: $6.75 (as of 06/03/2012)
This tale of Tenar and Ged, familiar characters from LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy, is a bittersweet one. Tenar, a middle-aged widow, rescues a badly burned girl from abusive parents. The girl will have important powers in the new age of Earthsea. Ged, broken by losses he suffered at the end of the trilogy, is learning to live with those losses. Tehanu is a farewell to a world that is passing, and filled with hints of the new one to come.
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1990 Nominees
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