Nebula Award for Best Novel

• 2002: American Gods by by Neil Gaiman
  • Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
  • The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger
  • Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
  • Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick

• 2001: The Quantum Rose by by Catherine Asaro
  • Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver
  • Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
  • The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
  • The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Declare by Tim Powers
  • Passage by Connie Willis

• 2000: Darwin's Radio by by Greg Bear
  • A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Crescent City Rhapsody by Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
  • Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt
  • Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint

• 1999: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
  • A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
  • Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh
  • Mockingbird by Sean Stewart
  • A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

• 1998: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
  • The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro
  • Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
  • Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • How Few Return by Harry Turtledove
  • Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

• 1997: The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre
  • Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • King's Dragon by Kate Elliott
  • A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  • Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt
  • City on Fire by Walter Jon Williams
  • Bellwether by Connie Willis

• 1996: Slow River by Nicola Griffith
  • The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
  • Expiration Date by Tim Powers
  • Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer
  • The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

• 1995: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Mother of Storms by Iby John Barnes
  • Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress
  • Celestis by Paul Park
  • Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams
  • Calde of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

• 1994: Moving Mars by Greg Bear
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
  • Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
  • Temporary Agency by Rachel Pollack
  • Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

• 1993: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
  • Hard Landing by A.J. Budrys
  • Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
  • Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

• 1992: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  • A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
  • Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
  • China Mountain Zhang by Marueen F. McHugh
  • A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
  • Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

• 1991: Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
  • Orbital Resonance by John Barnes
  • Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Bone Dance by Emma Bull
  • Synners by Pat Cadigan
  • The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and Bill Gibson

• 1990: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
  • Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
  • The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  • Redshift Rendevous by John E. Stith
  • White Jenna by Jane Yolen

• 1989: The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
  • Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
  • Good News From Outer Space by John Kessel
  • Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future by Mike Resnick
  • Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen

• 1988: Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner
  • Drowning Towers by George Turner
  • Great Sky River by Greg Benford
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  • Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
  • The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

• 1987: The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
  • The Forge of God by Greg Bear
  • Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
  • The Uplift War by David Brin
  • Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson
  • When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

• 1986: Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card
  • Count Zero by William Gibson
  • Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Journal of Nicholas the American by Leigh Kennedy
  • Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card
  • This is the Way the World Ends by James Marrow

• 1985: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Blood Music by Greg Bear
  • Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
  • Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss
  • The Postman by David Brin
  • The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry Malzberg
  • Schmatrix by Bruce Sterling

• 1984: Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Frontera by Lewis Shiner
  • The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann
  • The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson

• 1983: Startide Rising by David Brin
  • Against Infinity by Gregory Benford
  • The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
  • Lyonesse by Jack Vance
  • Tea With the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
  • The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad

• 1982: No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
  • Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asmiov
  • Friday by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss
  • The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick

• 1981: The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
  • Little, Big by John Crowley
  • The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
  • Radix by A.A. Attanasio
  • Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
  • The Vampire Tapestry by Suze McKee Charnas

• 1980: Timescape by Gregory Benford
  • Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
  • Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
  • The Orphan by Robert Stallman
  • The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
  • The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

• 1979: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Jem by Frederik Pohl
  • Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
  • On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
  • The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper
  • Titan by John Varley

• 1978: Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
  • Blind Voices by Tom Reamy
  • The Faded Sun by C.J. Cherryh
  • Kalki by Gore Vidal
  • Strangers by Gardner Dozois

• 1977: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  • Cirque by Terry Carr
  • In the Ocean of Night by Greg Benford
  • Moonstart Odyessy by David Gerrold
  • Sword of Demon by Richard Lupoff

• 1976: Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
  • Inferno by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
  • Islands by Marta Randall
  • Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
  • Triton by Samuel R. Delany
  • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

• 1975: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  • Autumn Angels by Arthury Byron
  • The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee
  • The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester
  • Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
  • Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
  • The Embedding by Ian Watson
  • The Exile Waiting by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • The Female Man by Joanna Russ
  • A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire by Michael Bishop
  • Guernica Night by Barry N. Malzberg
  • The Heritage of Hastur by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  • A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
  • The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean
  • The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
  • Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
  • The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg

• 1974: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 334 by Thomas M. Disch
  • Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
  • The Godwhale by T.J. Bass

• 1973: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Gravity's Raindow by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
  • The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson
  • Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

• 1972: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
  • The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
  • Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
  • The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
  • The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
  • What Entropy Means to Me by George Alec Effinger
  • When Harlie Was One by David Gerrold

• 1971: A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
  • The Byworlder by Poul Anderson
  • The Devil is Dead by R.A. Lafferty
  • Half Past Human by T.J. Bass
  • The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Margaret and I by Kate Wilhelm

• 1970: Ringworld by Larry Niven
  • And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
  • Fourth Mansions by R.A. Lafferty
  • The Steel Crocodile by D.G. Compton
  • The Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker

• 1969: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
  • Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny
  • The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Up the Line by Robert Silverberg

• 1968: Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
  • Black Easter by James Blish
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  • The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg
  • Past Master by R.A. Lafferty
  • Picnic on Paradise by Alexei Panshin
  • Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunne

• 1967: The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
  • Chthon by Piers Anthony
  • The Eskimo Invasion by Hayden Howard
  • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
  • Thorns by Robert Silverberg

• 1966: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (tie)
• 1966: Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (tie)
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

• 1965: Dune by Frank Herbert
  • All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak
  • The Clone by Theodore Thomas & Kate Wilhelm
  • Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
  • The Escape Orbit by James White
  • The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch
  • Nova Express by William Burroughs
  • A Plague of Demons by Keith Laumer
  • Rogue Dragon by Avram Davidson
  • The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream by G.C. Edmonson
  • The Star Fox by Poul Anderson
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

• Nebula Award