1996 Nebula Awards™

Final Ballot

Novels

• Griffith, Nicola: Slow River (Del Rey, Aug95)
• Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: The Silent Strength of Stones (AvoNova, Sep95)
• McKillip, Patricia: Winter Rose (Ace, Jul96)
• Powers, Tim: Expiration Date (Tor, Jan96)
• Sawyer, Robert J.: Starplex (Anlg: 7/96-10/96; Ace 10/96)
• Stephenson, Neal: The Diamond Age (Bantam, Feb95)

Novellas

• Dann, Jack: "Da Vinci Rising" (Asimov's, May95)
• Le Guin, Ursula K.: "A Woman's Liberation" (Asimov's, Jul95)
• Martin, George R.R. : "Blood of the Dragon" (Asimov's, Jul96)
• McDevitt, Jack: "Time Travellers Never Die" (Asimov's, May96)
• McHugh, Maureen: "The Cost to Be Wise" (Starlight 1, Sep96)
• Steele, Allen: "The Death of Captain Future" (Asimov's, Oct95)

Novelettes

• Ford, John M.: "Erase/Record/Play" (Starlight 1, Sep96)
• Guthridge, George: "Mirror of Lop Nor" (Immortal Unicorn, Beagle & Berliner, Ed., HarperPrism, Oct95)
• Levinson, Paul: "The Chronology Protection Case" (Analog, Sep95)
• Rogers, Bruce Holland: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" (F&SF, Nov95 [Oct/Nov])
• Turtledove, Harry: "Must and Shall" (Asimov's, Nov95)
• Wilson, Robert Charles: "The Perseids" (Realms of Fantasy, Dec95 [Canada: Northern Frights 3 (Mosaic Press, 1995)])
• Wolverton, Dave: "After a Lean Winter" (F&SF, Mar96 [also in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (Bantam, May 96)])

Short Story

• Brewster, Kent: "In the Pound, Near Breaktime" (Tomorrow SF, Oct95)
• Friesner, Esther M.: "A Birthday" (F&SF, Aug95)
• Goonan, Kathleen Ann: "The String" (F&SF, Jun95)
• Lethem, Jonathon: "Five Fucks" (The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, Oct96)
• Rogers, Bruce Holland: "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of" (Enchanted Forests, DAW, Dec95)
• Smith, Dean Wesley: "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" (F&SF, Jan96)