Nebula Best Sci Fi Novel awards 1960s

Thursday 20 August 2020

Nebula Best Sci Fi Novel awards 1960s

During this lockdown I've decided to start reading all the Sci fi I can.
It's a guilty pleasure to actually have time to read something frivilous, not related to work.
There are so many great novels from the past 70 years which I haven't read.
Sci fi isn't just Star Wars & Star Trek.
The Nebula & Hugo awards are awesome places to search for quality reading material.
The Nebula Awards are handed out by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and their annual event celebrates the books of the previous year.
The Nebulas started in 1965.

"Dune" & the "Left Hand of Darkness" are of course old classics that most sci fi readers would be familiar with. The "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is an all time classic. It was a runner up for the Nebula in 1966. I think Elon Musk said it was his favorite Sci Fi Novel. There are so many great books written by Robert Heinlein .. Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Farmer in the Sky, Double Star, Glory Road, The Number of the Beast.

Another runner up for the Nebula is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick.
This was turned into the Ridley Scott movie "Blade runner". It's probably one of my most influencial films. Esp because of the soundtrack composed by Greek electronic musician Vangelis and
his Yamaha CS-80

The Nebulas - Awards by Year
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/awards-by-year/

1965 -

Dune by Frank Herbert

1966
1966 (tie)- Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
1966 (tie)- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

1966 (tie)- Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

Publisher Harcourt, Brace & World

Publication date

April 1959 (short story)

March 1966 (novel)

Media type Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages 311 (novel)[1]

ISBN 0-15-131510-8

First published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF)

The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17)

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1966 (tie)- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Publisher   Ace Books
Publication date
   May 17, 1966
Pages   173

1966 Runner up:

1966 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Serialized in If magazine from December 1965 to April 1966.
(See Below)

1967 -

The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R. Delany
published by Ace
Publisher    Ace Books
Publication date
    1967
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    142 pp

1968 -

Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin

Publisher    Ace Books
Publication date
    1968
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    254
ISBN    0-671-44068-3

1968 runner up: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick, published by Doubleday

Publisher    Doubleday
Publication date
    1968
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    210
OCLC    34818133

1969 -

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Published    1969 (Ace Books)[2]
Media type    Print (paperback original; hardcover also 1969)
Pages    286 (first edition)

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1969 runner up: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., published by Delacorte

Publisher    Delacorte
Publication date
    March 31, 1969[1]
ISBN    0-385-31208-3 (first edition, hardback)

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress was first published in "Worlds of If", Science Fiction Magazine.