1996 SFWA Nebula Awards™

Preliminary Ballot

Anderson, Kevin J: Blindfold (Warner/Aspect, Nov95)
Banks, Iain M.: Feersum Endjinn (Bantam, Jun95)
Barton, William: The Transmigration of Souls (Warner, Jan96)
Benford, Gregory: Sailing Bright Eternity (Bantam, Sep95)
Bethke, Bruce: Headcrash (Warner, Sep95)
Brin, David: Brightness Reef (Bantam, Sep95)
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Cetaganda (Baen, Jan96)
Dann, Jack: The Memory Cathedral (Bantam, Dec95)
Egan, Greg: Permutation City (HarperPrism, Oct95 [UK: Millenium])
Goonan, Kathleen Ann: The Bones of Time (Tor, Feb96)
Griffith, Nicola: Slow River (Del Rey, Aug95)
Haldeman, Joe: 1968 (Morrow, Sep95)
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: The Silent Strength of Stones (AvoNova, Sep95)
Moon, Elizabeth: Remnant Population (Baen, Jan96)
Niven, Larry; Pournelle, Jerry; & Barnes, Steven: Beowulf's Children (Tor, Nov95)
Pellegrino, Charles &, Zebrowski, George: The Killing Star (Morrow, Apr95)
Powers, Tim: Expiration Date (Tor, Jan96)
Sawyer, Robert J.: Starplex (Anlg: 7/96-10/96; Ace 10/96)
Sherman, Josepha: The Shattered Oath (Baen, Aug95)
Stephenson, Neal: The Diamond Age (Bantam, Feb95)
Sterling, Bruce: Holy Fire (Bantam, Oct96)
Stewart, Sean: Nobody's Son (Ace, May95)
Walker, Sage: Whiteout (Tor, Apr96)

Charnas, Suzy McKee: "Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast" (Asimov's, Mar96)
Dann, Jack: "Da Vinci Rising" (Asimov's, May95)
Kress, Nancy: "Fault Lines" (Asimov's, Aug95)
Le Guin, Ursula K.: "A Man of the People" (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)
Marusek, David: "We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy" (Asimov's, Nov95)
McDevitt, Jack: "Time Travellers Never Die" (Asimov's, May96)
Rosenblum, Mary: "Gas Fish" (Asimov's, Feb96)
Rosenblum, Mary: "The Doryman" (Asimov's, Dec95)
Steele, Allen: "The Death of Captain Future" (Asimov's, Oct95)

Barton, William: "Age of Aquarius" (Asimov's, May96)
Benford, Gregory: "A Worm in the Well" (Analog, Nov95)
Bishop, Michael: "Simply Indispensable" (Full Spectrum 5, Bantam, Aug95)
Coney, Michael: "Bulldog Drummond and the Grim Reaper" (F&SF, Jan96)
Donnelly, Marcos: "El Hijo De Hernez" (F&SF, Apr95)
Guthridge, George: "Mirror of Lop Nor" (Immortal Unicorn, Beagle & Berliner, Ed., HarperPrism, Oct95)
Kelly, James Patrick: "The First Law of Thermodynamics" (Intersections, Kessel, Van Name & Butner, Ed., Tor, Feb96)
Landis, Geoffrey A.: "Across the Darkness" (Asimov's, Jun95)
Levinson, Paul: "The Chronology Protection Case" (Analog, Sep95)
Long, Karawynn: "Of Silence and Slow Time" (Full Spectrum 5, Bantam, Aug95)
Resnick, Mike: "The Land of Nod" (Asimov's, Jun96)
Rogers, Bruce Holland: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" (F&SF, Nov95 [Oct/Nov])
Smeds, Dave: "Survivor" (Immortal Unicorn, Beagle & Berliner, Ed., HarperPrism, Oct95)
Turtledove, Harry: "Must and Shall" (Asimov's, Nov95)
Wheeler, Deborah: "Javier, Dying in the Land of Flowers" (F&SF, Jan96)
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)])

Brewster, Kent: "In the Pound, Near Breaktime" (Tomorrow SF, Oct95)
Daniel, Tony: "Life on the Moon" (Asimov's, Apr95)
Friesner, Esther M.: "A Birthday" (F&SF, Aug95)
Goonan, Kathleen Ann: "The String" (F&SF, Jun95)
Lee, Mary Soon: "Ebb Tide" (F&SF, May95)
McCarthy, Wil: "The Dream of Houses" (Analog, Nov95)
Nichols, Lyn: "Rhapsody" (Blood Muse, Friesner & Greenberg, Ed., Donald I. Fine, Dec95)
Post, Jonathan V.: "Stop-It-Now" (Tomorrow SF, Jun95)
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)
Vukcevich, Ray: "Count on Me" (F&SF, Nov95)
York, Pat: "Cool Zone" (Full Spectrum 5, Bantam, Aug95)