Nebula Award for Best Novel Winners Trivia Word Search

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joe Haldeman's third win, in 2005, follows a shape-shifting _ _ _ _ _ hidden among humans, in Camouflage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This 2001 winner blends space opera and royal intrigue in The Quantum Rose.

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

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

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

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

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

In 1977, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pohl won again with Gateway, about prospectors who risk death riding mysterious alien ships.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_ _ _ _ _ _ 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

Le Guin's third Best Novel win, in 1990, returned to Earthsea for a story titled simply _ _ _ _ _ _.

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

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

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

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

Kim _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robinson's 2312 imagines a civilization spread across the solar system in the year of its title.

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

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

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

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