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, John Schoenherr
4 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. Dalany
4 stars
Wanderung zwischen den Zeiten
Der junge Lo Lobey ist ein Mutant. Er und andere seiner Art sind die neuen Erben …
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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4 stars
The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its …
Phil in SF says: 1970 winner
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A time of changes. by Robert Silverberg
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
In his best novel since the classic Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke has made something quite new and wholly …
Phil in SF says: 1973 winner
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
4 stars
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
Phil in SF says: 1974 winner
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
4 stars
"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe …
Phil in SF says: 1975 winner
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Man Plus by Frederik Pohl (Man Plus, #1)
3 stars
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
5 stars
Dreamsnake is a 1978 science fiction novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre. It is an expansion of her 1973 …
Phil in SF says: 1978 winner
