SFWA 1997 Nebula Awards™

Novels

• A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam, Aug96)
• Acts of Conscience, William Barton (Warner, Jan97)
• An Exchange of Hostages, Susan Matthews (Avon, Apr97)
• Ancient Shores, Jack McDevitt (Harper Prism, Apr96)
• Bellwether, Connie Willis (Bantam, Apr96)
• Blameless in Abaddon, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace, Aug96)
• Catch the Lightning, Catherine Asaro (Tor, Dec96)
• Celestial Matters, Richard Garfinkle (Tor, Apr96)
• City on Fire, Walter Jon Williams (Harper Collins, Jan97)
• Clouds End, Sean Stewart (Ace, Aug96)
• Corrupting Dr. Nice, John Kessel (Tor, Feb97)
• Crota, Owl Goingback (Donald I. Fine, Apr96)
• Devil's Tower, Mark Sumner (Del Rey, Oct96)
• Drakon, S.M. Stirling (Baen, Feb96)
• Exodus From the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor, Nov96)
• Expendable, James Alan Gardner (AvoNova, Jul97)
• Firestar, Michael F. Flynn (Tor, May96)
• God's Fires, Patricia Anthony (Ace, Apr97)
• Groogleman, Debra Doyle & James Macdonald (Jane Yolen Books, Sep96)
• Higher Education, Charles Sheffield & Jerry Pournelle (Analog, Feb-May96)
• How Like a God, Brenda Clough (Tor, Mar97)
• Humpty Dumpty: An Oval, Damon Knight (Tor, Sep96)
• Instrument of Fate, Christie Golden (Ace, Apr96)
• King's Dragon, Kate Elliott (DAW, Feb97)
• Kings of the High Frontier, Victor Koman (pulpless.com, Jun96)
• Lunatics, Bradley Denton (St. Martin's Press, Jun96)
• Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen, Oct96)
• Murder in the Solid State, Wil McCarthy (Tor, Aug96)
• One for the Morning Glory, John Barnes (Tor, Apr96)
• Palace, Katharine Kerr & Mark A. Kreighbaum (Bantam, Jun96)
• Shadowdance, Robin Wayne Bailey (White Wolf, Mar96)
• Shards of Empire, Susan Shwartz (Tor, Apr96)
• The Fortunate Fall, Raphael Carter (Tor, Jul96)
• The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre (Pocket Books, Sep97)
• The Ringworld Throne, Larry Niven (Del Rey, Jun96)
• The Sweetheart Season, Karen Joy Fowler (Henry Holt, Sep96)
• The Wood Wife, Terri Windling (Tor, Oct96)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Charles Sheffield (Bantam, Jan97)
• Widowmaker, Mike Resnick (Bantam, Aug96)
• Wildside, Steven Gould (Tor, Apr96)

Novellas

• "Abandon in Place", Jerry Oltion (F&SF, Dec96)
• "Candle in a Bottle", Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF, Nov96)
• "Chrysalis", Robert Reed (Asimov's, Sep96)
• "Loose Ends", Paul Levinson (Analog, May97)
• "Primrose and Thorn", Bud Sparhawk (Analog, May96)
• "The Funeral March of the Marionettes", Adam-Troy Castro (F&SF, Jul97)
• "The Weighing of Ayre", Gregory Feeley (Starlight, Tor, Sep96)

Novelettes

• "Amateurs," Tom Ligon (Analog, Jul96)
• "Broken Symmetry," Michael A. Burstein (Analog, Feb97)
• "Changes," William Barton (Aboriginal SF, Aug96)
• "Galley Slave," Jean Lamb (Analog, Aug96)
• "Liza and the Crazy Water Man," Andy Duncan (Starlight, Tor, Sep96)
• "Never Seen By Waking Eyes," Stephen Dedman (F&SF, Aug96)
• "Saint Vitus Dances Eternity: A Sarajevo Ghost Story," Stewart Von Allmen (White Wolf, Jul96)
• "Scapegoat," Susan Kroupa (Realms of Fantasy, Oct96)
• "The Copyright Notice Case," Paul Levinson (Analog, Apr96)
• "The Dog's Story," Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, May96)
• "The Flowers of Aulit Prison," Nancy Kress (Asimov's, Nov96)
• "The God at Midnight," Thomas E. Fuller & Brad Strickland (Realms of Fantasy, Jun96)
• "The Mendelian Lamp Case," Paul Levinson (Analog, Apr97)
• "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue," John Kessel (Intersections, Tor, Feb96)
• "The Undiscovered," William Sanders (Asimov's, Mar97)
• "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream," James Alan Gardner (Asimov's, Feb97)
• "Try and Kill It," Gene Wolfe (Asimov's, Nov96)
• "We Will Drink a Fish Together," Bill Johnson (Asimov's, May97)
• "Werewolves in Sheep's Clothing," Michael Coney (F&SF, Sep96)
• "Words and Music," William Sanders (Asimov's, Jul97)

Short Stories

• "43 Antarean Dynasties", Mike Resnick (Asimov's, Dec97)
• "Beluthahatchi"e, Andy Duncan (Asimov's, Mar97)
• "Beside the Well", Leslie What (Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, White Wolf, Mar97)
• "Burning Bright", K.D. Wentworth (Aboriginal SF, Aug96)
• "In the House of the Man in the Moon", Richard Bowes (Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, White Wolf, Mar97)
• "Itsy Bitsy Spider", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's, Jun97)
• "Nairich", William F. Wu (Realms of Fantasy, Oct96)
• "No Blood On My Hands", Pete D. Manison (Analog, Aug96)
• "Orphans of Eden", Spider Robinson (Analog, Aug96)
• "Peking Man", Robert J. Sawyer (Dark Destiny III, White Wolf, Oct96)
• "Sister Emily's Lightship", Jane Yolen (Starlight, Tor, Sep96)
• "Snowball", Jeffery D. Kooistra (Analog, Jul96)
• "Sound of Angels", L.S. Silverthorne (Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, White Wolf, Mar97)
• "Teddy", Rob Chilson (Analog, Jan96)
• "That Cruel Pauli Exclusion", Kent Patterson (F&SF, Feb97)
• "The Dead", Michael Swanwick (Starlight, Tor, Sep96)
• "The Elizabeth Complex", Karen Joy Fowler (Crank 6, Apr96)
• "The Hammerpond Park Burglary", Ted Reynolds (Analog, Oct96)
• "The Shape of Things to Come", Marianne Dyson (Analog, Mar96)
• "The Spectral Stardrive", Jerry Oltion (Analog, Nov96)
• "United Powers", Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch (MZBFM, Aug96)
• "Universal Grammar", Mary Soon Lee (F&SF, Apr97)
• "Waking Beauty", Martha Soukup (Starlight, Tor, Sep96)
• "Water Snakes", Holly Wade Matter (Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, White Wolf, Mar97)
• "Where Garagiola Waits", Rick Wilber (F&SF, Apr97)