Nebula Award for Best Novel Public

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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.

  1. Moving Mars by  (Queen of Angels, #3)

    No rating

    Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. …

    Phil in SF says:

    1994 winner

  2. The Terminal Experiment by 

    No rating

    Dr. Peter Hobson invents a machine that detects a brain pattern that leaves the body after death, a pattern many …

    Phil in SF says:

    1995 winner

  3. Slow River by 

    4 stars

    She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was …

    Phil in SF says:

    1996 winner

  4. Phil in SF says:

    1997 winner

  5. Forever Peace by 

    No rating

    Joe Haldeman returns with a story about the horrors of war -- and how we might move past them. Julian …

    Phil in SF says:

    1998 winner

  6. Parable of the Talents by  (Earthseed, #2)

    4 stars

    Phil in SF says:

    1999 winner

  7. Darwin's Radio by  (Darwin Series, #1)

    4 stars

    "Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies …

    Phil in SF says:

    2000 winner

  8. The Quantum Rose by  (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #10)

    No rating

    Phil in SF says:

    2001 winner

  9. American Gods by 

    5 stars

    The storm was coming....

    Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted …

    Phil in SF says:

    2002 winner

  10. The Speed of Dark by 

    5 stars

    In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; …

    Phil in SF says:

    2003 winner

  11. Paladin of Souls by 

    3 stars

    Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her …

    Phil in SF says:

    2004 winner

  12. Camouflage by 

    No rating

    he artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath forty more feet of sand. The …

    Phil in SF says:

    2005 winner

  13. Seeker by  (Alex Benedict, #3)

    5 stars

    "Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth …

    Phil in SF says:

    2006 winner

  14. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by 

    4 stars

    For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake …

    Phil in SF says:

    2007 winner

  15. Powers by  (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

    5 stars

    Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that …

    Phil in SF says:

    2008 winner

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