Nebula Awards 1986
Winners and nominees of the 1986 Nebula Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦The Remaking of Sigmund Freud — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦Helliconia Winter — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Schismatrix — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Postman — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Blood Music — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Dinner at Deviant's Palace — Tim Powers(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Portraits of His Children — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦Rockabye Baby — S. C. Sykes (nominee)
- ✦Dogfight — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Fringe — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Paladin of the Lost Hour — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦Dogfight — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦A Gift from the GrayLanders — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Sailing to Byzantium — Robert Silverberg (winner)
- ✦Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Only Neat Thing to Do — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦The Gorgon Field — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Green Days in Brunei — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
Best Short Story
- ✦Out of All Them Bright Stars — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦More Than the Sum of His Parts — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Gods of Mars — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Gods of Mars — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Gods of Mars — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Snow — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Flying Saucer Rock & Roll — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Heirs of the Perisphere — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Hong's Bluff — William F. Wu (nominee)
- ✦Paper Dragons — James Blaylock(nominee)
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