Nebula Awards 1981
Winners and nominees of the 1981 Nebula Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Timescape — Gregory Benford(winner)
- ✦The Snow Queen — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Beyond the Blue Event Horizon — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Orphan(nominee)
- ✦The Shadow of the Torturer — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Mockingbird — Walter Tevis (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Ugly Chickens — Howard Waldrop (winner)
- ✦The Way Station — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Feast of Saint Janis — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Ginungagap — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Beatnik Bayou — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Strata — Edward Bryant (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Unicorn Tapestry — Suzy McKee Charnas(winner)
- ✦Lost Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦Dangerous Games — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦The Autopsy — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦The Brave Little Toaster — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me — Avram Davidson (nominee)
Best Short Story
- ✦Grotto of the Dancing Deer — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦War Beneath the Tree — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Secrets of the Heart — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Window — Bob Leman (nominee)
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