Nebula Award for Best Novel Winners Trivia Word Search

This 1995 winner follows an AI researcher whose brain-scanning experiment produces an unexpected copy of himself.

This 1985 winner follows a child trained through simulated battles to fight an alien threat, in Ender's Game.

This 1978 winner follows a healer who treats the sick with genetically engineered serpents, in Dreamsnake.

This 1980 winner imagines scientists sending a message backward through time via tachyons, in Timescape.

_ _ _ _ _ _ K. Le Guin's fourth and final Best Novel win, in 2008, follows an enslaved scholar's path toward freedom, in Powers.

Stephen Graham _ _ _ _ _'s 2025 winner follows a vengeful spirit stalking Gilded Age buffalo hunters.

This 1983 winner follows a crew of genetically uplifted dolphins piloting a starship, in Startide Rising.

This author shared that inaugural 1966 win for Babel-17, about a poet-linguist cracking an alien code.

John _ _ _ _ _ _ _'s 2024 winner follows a sentient, ravenous house-monster who falls in love.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bear won a second time in 2000 with Darwin's Radio, imagining a virus that drives sudden human evolution.

In 1989, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ann Scarborough won for The Healer's War, drawing on her own service as an Army nurse in Vietnam.

Ursula K. Le _ _ _ _ won her first Best Novel award in 1969 for The Left Hand of Darkness, set on the androgynous world of Gethen.

This 1991 winner follows a scientist probing a strange change sweeping across a future Earth, in Stations of the Tide.

In 2023, _ _ _ _ _ Chandrasekera won for a novel of political assassins and endlessly shifting doors.

This 1976 winner, Man Plus, follows an astronaut surgically rebuilt to survive unaided on Mars.

This 1984 winner helped launch the cyberpunk genre with a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, in Neuromancer.

In 1973, a mysterious alien starship passes through the solar system in this novel, Rendezvous with Rama.

_ _ _ _ _ Scott Card won again in 1986 with a sequel following the same boy genius years later, in Speaker for the Dead.

P. Djeli _ _ _ _ _'s 2021 winner follows a detective of magical crimes in an alternate steampunk Cairo, A Master of Djinn.

This 2018 winner reimagines the space race after a meteor strike forces an urgent push into orbit.

In 2009, _ _ _ _ _ Bacigalupi imagined a genetically engineered woman navigating a starving future Bangkok, in The Windup Girl.

This 1993 winner opens a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars, in Red Mars.

_ _ _ _ _ _ Willis won again in 2010 for a two-volume tale of historians trapped in the London Blitz, Blackout/All Clear.

Le Guin won again in 1974 with a novel about anarchist revolutionaries on the barren moon _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

In 1971, this author won for A Time of Changes, set on a planet where individualism is taboo.

This 1996 winner follows a woman fleeing an abusive upbringing to rebuild her life under a new identity, in Slow River.

This 1992 winner sends a historian back to a plague-stricken medieval England, in Doomsday Book.

This 2017 winner closes a trilogy about a world ravaged by catastrophic seismic ages, in The Stone Sky.

This author's first Best Novel win, in 1988, follows an engineer teaching genetically engineered workers in free fall, in Falling Free.

This 2003 winner follows an autistic man weighing an experimental cure in a near-future workplace, in The Speed of Dark.

Arthur C. Clarke won again in 1979 for a novel about a space elevator built on a tropical island, The Fountains of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

This 1981 winner follows a torturer's apprentice across a decaying far-future Earth, in The Claw of the Conciliator.

This 2022 winner follows students at a colonial-era translation institute powered by silver and language, in Babel.

This 1972 winner spans our universe and a parallel one with different physics, in The Gods Themselves.

_ _ _ Haldeman won a second time in 1998 with Forever Peace, a spiritual sequel to his earlier war novel.

This 2002 winner follows an ex-convict caught between the old gods and the new, in American Gods.

This 2006 winner follows antiquities hunters chasing the lost trail of a vanished starship, in Seeker.

This 2013 winner is narrated by the last fragment of a destroyed starship's fractured consciousness, in Ancillary Justice.

This 2007 winner imagines a Jewish settlement in Alaska after Israel's early collapse, in The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

This 2019 winner follows a reclusive musician drawn back to underground concerts in a pandemic-locked America.

This 1994 winner, Moving Mars, follows students on the Red Planet fighting for independence from Earth.

This 2016 winner follows a witch and an engineer whose friendship spans a coming tech apocalypse.

_ _ _ _ VanderMeer's 2014 winner follows scientists exploring a mysterious, mutating coastal zone, in Annihilation.

Samuel R. Delany won again in 1967 for The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Intersection, a myth-steeped tale of a shapeshifting musician.

This 1987 winner follows an archaeologist haunted by visions in the Mexican desert, in The Falling Woman.

This 1999 winner follows a persecuted religious community in a near-future, strife-torn America, in Parable of the Talents.

This 2020 winner follows a security android investigating a former ally's disappearance, in Network Effect.

Sharing the first 1966 Best Novel win, this novel follows a man's intelligence boosted, then fading, in Flowers for _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

This 2011 winner follows a Welsh teenager who talks to fairies while escaping an abusive family, in Among Others.

This 1970 winner sends explorers to a colossal artificial band encircling a distant star, in Ringworld.

This 1968 winner follows a girl's coming-of-age trial aboard a generation starship, in Rite of Passage.

_ _ _ _ McMaster Bujold won again in 2004 with a disgraced general seeking redemption as a saint's servant, in Paladin of Souls.

This 1975 winner follows soldiers whose relativistic space travel leaves them out of step with time, in The Forever War.

This 1982 winner, No Enemy But Time, follows a dreamer who travels two million years into humanity's past.

This 2015 winner follows a village girl taken into service by a reclusive, feared wizard, in Uprooted.

In 1997, _ _ _ _ _ N. McIntyre won again for a historical fantasy imagining a mermaid at the court of Louis XIV.