Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Year listed is per the official Nebula web site, and reflects the award eligibility period, rather than the year it was announced. For example, the "1965 winner" reflects that the award was for novels published in 1965.
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Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
5 stars
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
Phil in SF says: 1965 winner
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4 stars
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …
Phil in SF says: 1966 co-winner
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
4 stars
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …
Phil in SF says: 1966 co-winner
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The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the …
Phil in SF says: 1967 winner
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Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, …
Phil in SF says: 1968 winner
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #5)
4 stars
The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants …
Phil in SF says: 1969 winner
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Ringworld by Larry Niven (Ringworld, #1)
5 stars
A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before …
Phil in SF says: 1970 winner
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A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
2 stars
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began …
Phil in SF says: 1971 winner
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The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
5 stars
The year is 2100 A.D.…
And Man no longer stands alone in the universe.
Now there are other worlds, other …
Phil in SF says: 1972 winner
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Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Rama, #1)
4 stars
Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried …
Phil in SF says: 1973 winner
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #6)
5 stars
The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American …
Phil in SF says: 1974 winner
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Forever War, #1)
4 stars
The Earth’s leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand–despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would …
Phil in SF says: 1975 winner
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Man Plus by Frederik Pohl (Man Plus, #1)
The screen showed a man.
He did not look like a man. He was an astronaut, a Democrat, a Methodist, …
Phil in SF says: 1976 winner
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Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Heechee, #1)
4 stars
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out …
Phil in SF says: 1977 winner
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Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, Snake is a healer. One of an elite band dedicated to caring for …
Phil in SF says: 1978 winner
