Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.

Winners and other nominees

• 2004: "Coming to Terms" by Eileen Gunn
• "The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Anne" by Mike Moscoe
• "Travels With my Cats" by Mike Resnick
• "Embracing-The-New" by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• "In the Late December" by Greg van Eekhout
• "Aloha" by Ken Wharton
• 2003: "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Knapsack Poems" by Eleanor Arnason
• "The Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier
• "Goodbye to All That" by Harlan Ellison
• "Grandma" by Carol Emshwiller
• "Lambing Season" by Molly Gloss
• "The Last of the O-Forms" by James Van Pelt
• 2002: "Creature" by Carol Emshwiller
• "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford
• "Cut" by Megan Lindholm
• "Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City" by Jack McDevitt
• "Little Gods" by Tim Pratt
• "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick
• 2001: "The Cure for Everything" by Severna Park
• "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" by Michael A. Burstein
• "The Elephants on Neptune" by Mike Resnick
• "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" by Sherwood Smith
• "Wound the Wind" by George Zebrowski
• 2000: "macs" by Terry Bisson
• "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" by Jeffrey Ford
• "Flying Over Water" by Ellen Klages
• "The Golem" by Severna Park
• "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick
• "You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine" by Pat York
• 1999: "The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What
• "Flower Kiss]]" by Constance Ash
• "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
• "Basil the Dog" by Frances Sherwood
• "Radiant Doors" by Michael Swanwick
• "Ancient Engines]" by Michael Swanwick
• 1998: "Thirteen Ways to Water" by Bruce Holland Rogers
• "When the Bow Breaks" by Steven Brust
• "Standing Room Only" by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Fortune and Misfortune" by Lisa Goldstein
• "Winter Fire" by Geoffrey A. Landis
• "Tall One" by K. D. Wentworth
• 1997: "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen
• "The Crab Lice" by Gregory Feeley
• "The Elizabeth Complex" by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by James Patrick Kelly
• "The Dead" by Michael Swanwick
• "Burning Bright" by K. D. Wentworth
• 1996: "A Birthday" by Esther Friesner
• "In the Pound, Near Breaktime" by Kent Brewster
• "The String" by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• "Five Fucks" by Jonathan Lethem
• "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of" by Bruce Holland Rogers
• "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" by Dean Wesley Smith
• 1995: "Death and the Librarian" by Esther Friesner
• "Alien Jane" by Kelley Eskridge
• "Grass Dancer" by Owl Goingback
• "The Narcissus Plague" by Lisa Goldstein
• "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" by Geoffrey A. Landis
• "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh
• "Short Timer" by Dave Smeds
• 1994: "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup
• "Inspiration" by Ben Bova
• "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman
• "Understanding Entropy" by Barry N. Malzberg
• "Virtual Love" by Maureen F. McHugh
• "I Know What You're Thinking" by Kate Wilhelm
• 1993: "Graves" by Joe Haldeman
• "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" by Harlan Ellison
• "All Vows" by Esther M. Friesner
• "Alfred" by Lisa Goldstein
• "The Good Pup" by Bridget McKenna
• "The Beggar in the Living Room" by William John Watkins
• 1992: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
• "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" by Michael Bishop
• "Lennon Spex" by Paul Di Filippo
• "The Mountain to Mohammed" by Nancy Kress
• "Vinland the Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson
• "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" by Martha Soukup
• 1991: "Ma Qui" by Alan Brennert
• "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson
• "The Dark" by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Buffalo" by John Kessel
• "Dog's Life" by Martha Soukup
• "the button, and what you know" by W. Gregory Stewart
• 1990: "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson
• "The Power and the Passion" by Pat Cadigan
• "Lieserl" by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Pat Murphy
• "Before I Wake" by Kim Stanley Robinson
• "Story Child" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 1989: "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis
• "The Adinkra Cloth" by Mary C. Aldridge
• "The Ommatidium Miniatures" by Michael Bishop
• "Lost Boys" by Orson Scott Card
• "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas
• "Dori Bangs" by Bruce Sterling
• 1988: "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow
• "Voices of the Kill" by Thomas M. Disch
• "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" by John Kessel
• "The Fort Moxie Branch" by Jack McDevitt
• "Dead Men on TV" by Pat Murphy
• "The Color Winter" by Steven Popkes
• 1987: "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm
• "Angel" by Pat Cadigan
• "Kid Charlemagne" by Paul Di Filippo
• "The Faithful Companion at Forty" by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Cassandra's Photographs" by Lisa Goldstein
• "Temple to a Minor Goddess" by Susan M. Shwartz
• "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 1986: "Tangents" by Greg Bear
• "Robot Dreams" by Isaac Asimov
• "Pretty Boy Crossover" by Pat Cadigan
• "Rat" by James Patrick Kelly
• "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" by Nancy Springer
• "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" by Howard Waldrop
• 1985: "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress
• "Paper Dragons" by James P. Blaylock
• "Snow" by John Crowley
• "The Gods of Mars" by Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann & Michael Swanwick
• "More Than the Sum of His Parts" by Joe Haldeman
• "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" by Howard Waldrop
• "Heirs of the Perisphere" by Howard Waldrop
• "Hong's Bluff" by William F. Wu
• 1984: "Morning Child]]" by Gardner Dozois
• "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" by George Alec Effinger
• "Salvador" by Lucius Shepard
• "Sunken Gardens" by Bruce Sterling
• "A Cabin on the Coast" by Gene Wolfe
• "The Eichmann Variations" by George Zebrowski
• 1983: "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois
• "Her Furry Face" by Leigh Kennedy
• "Cryptic" by Jack McDevitt
• "Ghost Town" by Chad Oliver
• "The Geometry of Narrative" by Hilbert Schenck
• "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" by William F. Wu
• 1982: "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis
• "Petra]]" by Greg Bear
• "High Steel" by Jack C. Haldeman II & Jack Dann
• "Corridors" by Barry N. Malzberg
• "The Pope of the Chimps" by Robert Silverberg
• "God's Hooks!" by Howard Waldrop
• 1981: "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle (refused)
• "Going Under" by Jack Dann
• "Disciples" by Gardner Dozois
• "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson
• "The Quiet" by George Guthridge
• "Venice Drowned" by Kim Stanley Robinson
• "Zeke" by Timothy R. Sullivan
• "The Pusher" by John Varley
• 1980: "A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather" by Craig Strete
• 1980: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak
• "Secrets of the Heart" by Charles L. Grant
• "Window" by Bob Leman
• "War Beneath the Tree" by Gene Wolfe
• 1979: "giANTS" by Edward Bryant
• "Vernalfest Morning" by Michael Bishop
• "Unaccompanied Sonata" by Orson Scott Card
• "Red as Blood" by Tanith Lee
• "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George R. R. Martin
• "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" by Joanna Russ
• 1978: "Stone" by Edward Bryant
• "Cassandra (story)|Cassandra" by C. J. Cherryh
• "A Quiet Revolution for Death" by Jack Dann
• 1977: "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison
• "Tin Woodman" by Dennis R. Bailey & Dave Bischoff
• "The Hibakusha Gallery" by Edward Bryant
• "Camera Obscura" by Thomas F. Monteleone
• "Air Raid" by John Varley
• 1976: "A Crowd of Shadows" by Charles L. Grant
• "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman
• "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" by Thomas F. Monteleone
• "Back to the Stone Age" by Jake Saunders
• "Stone Circle" by Lisa Tuttle
• "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" by Howard Waldrop
• 1975: "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber
• "Doing Lennon" by Gregory Benford
• "White Creatures" by Gregory Benford
• "Utopia of a Tired Man" by Jorge Luis Borges
• "A Scraping at the Bones" by Algis Budrys
• "Attachment" by Phyllis Eisenstein
• "Shatterday" by Harlan Ellison
• "Find the Lady" by Nicholas Fisk
• "White Wolf Calling" by Charles L. Grant
• "Sail the Tide of Mourning" by Richard A. Lupoff
• "Child of All Ages" by P. J. Plauger
• "Growing Up in Edge City" by Frederik Pohl
• "Time Deer" by Craig Strete
• 1974: "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin
• "After King Kong Fell" by Philip José Farmer
• "The Engine at Heartspring's Center" by Roger Zelazny
• 1973: "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Shark" by Edward Bryant
• "With Morning Comes Mistfall" by George R. R. Martin
• "Wings" by Vonda N. McIntyre
• "A Thing of Beauty" by Norman Spinrad
• "German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe
• 1972: "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
• "On the Downhill Side" by Harlan Ellison
• "Shaffery Among the Immortals" by Frederik Pohl
• "When We Went to See the End of the World" by Robert Silverberg
• "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" by Gene Wolfe
• 1971: "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg
• "Horse of Air" by Gardner Dozois
• "The Last Ghost" by Stephen Goldin
• "Heathen God" by George Zebrowski
• 1970: (no award)
• "A Dream at Noonday" by Gardner Dozois
• "By the Falls" by Harry Harrison
• "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite" by R. A. Lafferty
• "In the Queue" by Keith Laumer
• "The Creation of Bennie Good" by James Sallis
• "A Cold Dark Night with Snow" by Kate Wilhelm
• "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" by Gene Wolfe
• 1969: "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg
• "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" by Harlan Ellison
• "Not Long Before the End" by Larry Niven
• "The Man Who Learned Loving" by Theodore Sturgeon
• "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 1968: "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm
• "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson
• "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" by Terry Carr
• "Sword Game" by H. H. Hollis
• "Masks" by Damon Knight
• "Idiot's Mate" by Robert Taylor
• 1967: "Aye, and Gomorrah…" by Samuel R. Delany
• "Earthwoman" by Reginald Bretnor
• "Driftglass" by Samuel R. Delany
• "Answering Service" by Fritz Leiber
• "The Doctor" by Theodore Thomas
• "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm
• 1966: "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna
• "Man In His Time" by Brian W. Aldiss
• "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw
• 1965: "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison
• "Eyes Do More Than See" by Isaac Asimov
• "Founding Father" by Isaac Asimov
• "Souvenir" by J. G. Ballard
• "Game" by Donald Barthelme
• "Lord Moon" by Jane Beauclerk
• "Uncollected Works" by Lin Carter
• "A Few Kindred Spirits" by John Christopher
• "The House the Blakeneys Built" by Avram Davidson
• "Computers Don't Argue" by Gordon R. Dickson
• "Come to Venus Melancholy" by Thomas M. Disch
• "Of One Mind" by James A. Durham
• "Inside Man" by H. L. Gold
• "Calling Dr. Clockwork" by Ron Goulart
• "Better Than Ever" by Alex Kirs
• "In Our Block" by R. A. Lafferty
• "Slow Tuesday Night" by R. A. Lafferty
• "Cyclops" by Fritz Leiber
• "The Good New Days" by Fritz Leiber
• "The Peacock King" by Larry McCombs & Ted White
• "Though a Sparrow Fall" by Scott Nichols
• "Becalmed in Hell" by Larry Niven
• "Wrong-Way Street" by Larry Niven
• "The Mischief Maker" by Richard Olin
• "A Better Mousehole" by Edgar Pangborn
• "A Leader for Yesteryear" by Mack Reynolds
• "Keep Them Happy" by Robert Rohrer
• "Balanced Ecology" by James H. Schmitz
• "Over the River and Through the Woods" by Clifford D. Simak
• "The Eight Billion" by Richard Wilson
• "Devil Car" by Roger Zelazny