Nebula Awards - Novels - 2000s
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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 2000s Table of Contents
- Who Votes & What Is Eligible
- 2010 Nominees
- 2009 Winner: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- 2009 Nominees
- 2008 Winner: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 2008 Nominees
- 2007 Winner: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- 2007 Nominees
- 2006 Winner: Seeker by Jack McDevitt
- 2006 Nominees
- 2005 Winner: Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
- 2005 Nominees
- 2004 Winner: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 2004 Nominees
- 2003 Winner: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
- 2003 Nominees
- 2002 Winner: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- 2002 Nominees
- 2001 Winner: The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
- 2001 Nominees
- 2001 Nominees
- 2000 Winner: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
- 2000 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 2007 were presented at the awards banquet in 2008.
2010 Nominees
The Native Star by M.K. Hobson Buy now from Amazon.com
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin Buy now from Amazon.com
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Buy now from Amazon.com
Echo by Jack McDevitt Buy now from Amazon.com
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor Buy now from Amazon.com
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis - a two volume set
Blackout Buy now at Amazon.com
All ClearBuy now from Amazon.com
2009 Winner: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 02/17/2012)
The story is set in post-oil era Bangkok, a city struggling with rising sea levels and out-of-control mutations. A cast of complex characters of several nationalities grapple with their own problems both personal and professional. Emiko, the despised yet seductive windup girl, was abandoned by her abusive master and works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war. There's an American factory manager who is secretly looking for new and useful genetic mutations, and a captain in the Thai Environment Ministry trying to protect his country from foreign interests. Bacigalupi's debut novel has been compared to the works of William Gibson and Ian McDonald writing at their best.
2009 Nominees
2008 Winner: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Powers (Annals of the Western Shore)
Amazon Price: $2.80 (as of 02/17/2012)
Powers joins Gifts (2004) and Voices (2006) in Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series of children's books. Each novel has different main characters but are linked by some recurring characters and similar locations. Gavir, a 14-year-old slave in one of the city-state Etra's noble houses, develops the gift of precognition. He's trained to be a teacher of the nobles' children, but the death of his sister compels him to leave the city and wander for three years, eventually ending up in the Marshlands where he was born.
2008 Nominees
2007 Winner: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
Amazon Price: $6.25 (as of 02/17/2012)
Publishers Weekly calls the book "a murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller." Chabon takes the idea Franklin D. Roosevelt actually proposed on the eve of World War II: a temporary Jewish homeland on the Alaska panhandle, and brings it into a present in which Israel never got established. Two million Jews, displaced by the war, end up in Sitka, where they are known as the "frozen Chosen." There's murder, intrigue, Orthodox black-hat gangs and crime-lord rabbis in this book with a film noir feel.
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2007 Nominees
2006 Winner: Seeker by Jack McDevitt
Seeker
Amazon Price: $3.15 (as of 02/17/2012)
In 2688 two starships leave Earth to found the colony Margolia, but they vanish. Nine thousand years later, a cup from the "Seeker," one of the ships, falls into antiquarian Alex Benedict's hands. He's determined to find the lost ship and colony and enlists the help of female pilot Chase Kolpath, the book's narrator. The hunt is on and spans many star systems populated by flawed humans, alien societies and artificial intelligences.
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2006 Nominees
2005 Winner: Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Camouflage
Amazon Price: $2.48 (as of 02/17/2012)
When a mysterious egg-shaped artifact is discovered in the ocean off Samoa in 2019, marine biologist Russell Sutton hopes to make a fortune by supervising its excavation and capitalizing on its extraterrestrial origin. His fate becomes entwined with two aliens, each unaware of the other's existence, who have been on Earth for millions of years.
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2005 Nominees
2004 Winner: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Paladin of Souls
Amazon Price: $4.25 (as of 02/17/2012)
This is a sequel to Bujold's fantasy novel The Curse of Chalion, a 2002 Hugo Award nominee. In a land ruled by Five Gods "just around some strange corner of perception," Dowager Royina Ista Dy Baocia has been freed of a curse of madness and sets out on a pilgrimage. It becomes a more dangerous journey than she ever imagined as she defends both Chalion and her soul from destruction.
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2004 Nominees
2003 Winner: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Speed of Dark
Amazon Price: $4.29 (as of 02/17/2012)
Lou Arrendale is a bioinformatics specialist with a gift for pattern recognition who works for a pharmaceutical company. He is also autistic. A new boss thinks Lou and his autistic co-workers should undergo treatment to "cure" them of their autism. The book explores the question of whether autism is a disease or another way of being as Lou tries to decide whether the treatment will help or whether it will shatter his sense of self.
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2003 Nominees
2002 Winner: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Gods: A Novel
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 02/17/2012)
Shadow Moon, released from prison a few days early when his wife is killed in a car crash, meets Mr. Wednesday on the flight home. Mr. Wednesday is actually the old Norse god Odin, who is traveling around American to round up his quietly retired fellow gods to do battle against the modern upstart gods of the Internet, credit cards, television and the like. In addition to the Hugo Award, the novel also won the 2002 Nebula Award and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award.
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2002 Nominees
2001 Winner: The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)
Amazon Price: $4.00 (as of 02/17/2012)
This sixth book in the Saga of the Skolian Empire combines space opera, hard SF, future history, military SF, and romance and makes it all work very well. Kamoj Quanta Argali rules a declining province that has mostly lost the high technology of its original colonists. She has competing marriage proposals from the ruler of a prosperous province and from an offworlder who can help restore the lost technology.
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2001 Nominees
2001 Nominees
2000 Winner: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Darwin's Radio
Amazon Price: $3.43 (as of 02/17/2012)
An anthropologist has discovered an ice cave in the Alps containing the mummified remains of a Neanderthal couple and their abnormal newborn child. A molecular biologist specializing in retroviruses has turned up evidence that "junk DNA" might be re-awakening. A virus hunter at the National Center for Infectious Diseases is on the trail of a virus which seems to strike only expectant mothers and their fetuses. Together, they come to realize that humankind is on the verge of its greatest crisis as the connections become clear.
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2000 Nominees
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