Comments: For the second year in a row, a novel about Mars won the Best Novel Nebula, this time Greg Bear's Moving Mars, which beat out, among other competitors, Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars. I like books about Mars, but there was so much other, more original science fiction such as Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower were also on the ballot.
In the other categories, Mike Resnick, David Gerrold, and Martha Soukup won the Nebula's, but Ursula K. Le Guin made a strong statement by having two of her works nominated. The most interesting winner was Gerrold's The Martian Child, a story with almost no science fiction elements, but which focuses on the relationship between a science fiction author and the child he adopts. The story is semi-autobiographical, and quite touching.
Best Novel
Moving Mars by Greg Bear
Other Nominees:
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Temporary Agency by Rachel Pollack
Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
Best Novella
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick
Other Nominees:
Cold Iron by Michael Swanwick
Fan by Geoff Ryman
Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin
Haunted Humans by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Mefisto In Onyx by Harlan Ellison
Best Novelette
The Martian Child by David Gerrold
Other Nominees:
The Matter of Seggri by Ursula K. Le Guin
Necronauts by Terry Bisson
Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh
The Singular Habits of Wasps by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Skeleton Key by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Best Short Story
A Defense of the Social Contracts by Martha Soukup
Other Nominees:
I Know What You're Thinking by Kate Wilhelm
Inspiration by Ben Bova
None So Blind by Joe Haldeman
Understanding Entropy by Barry N. Malzberg
Virtual Love by Maureen F. McHugh
Go to previous year's nominees: 1994
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1996
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