Book prize
Nebula Award for Best Novella winners
6 winners and 13 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.
The Nebula Award for Best Novella has 6 winners we hold, from 1972 to 2024, and 13 nominees. The most recent winner here is The Tea Master and the Detective (2019), first published by Subterranean Press in 2018. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.
Won
Winners
- 2019 The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard First edition: Subterranean Press 2018
- 2018 All Systems Red by Martha Wells First edition: Tor.com 2017
- 2017 Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2016
- 2016 Binti by Nnedi Okorafor First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2015
- 2004 Coraline by Neil Gaiman First edition not yet identified
- 1991 The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman First edition not yet identified
Shortlisted and nominated
Also in the running
- 2024 Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2023
- 2023 Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers First edition: Tor 2022
- 2022 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers First edition: Tor.com 2021
- 2021 Finna by Nino Cipri First edition: Tor.com 2020
- 2021 Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2020
- 2020 Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2019
- 2020 The Deep by Daveed Diggs First edition: Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio 2019
- 2019 The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2018
- 2017 The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle First edition not yet identified
- 2011 The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang First edition: Subterranean Press 2010
- 2010 The God Engines by John Scalzi First edition: Subterranean Press 2009
- 1982 True Names by Vernor Vinge First edition not yet identified
- 1972 Being There by Jerzy Kosiński First edition not yet identified
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