Your husband hides his face for a reason. He valued that reason enough to cover it even at his own wedding. If she looked now, she might antagonize him.

But he was asleep.

A torment of curiosity swept over her. She touched the edge of his cowl. No, she couldn't take the chance. She withdrew her hand. He continued to sleep, a soft snore at the end of each breath. How would he know if she looked? Perhaps he would never find out. Then again, he might wake up if she uncovered him.

Finally Kamoj could take it no more. She tugged on his cowl. When he showed no sign of waking, she pulled the cloth more. Still no response. Emboldened, she brushed the hood back from his head-and nearly screamed.

PAST NEBULA AWARD WINNERS.

1965.

Best Novel:Dune by Frank Herbert Best Novella: "The Saliva Tree" by Brian W. Aldiss and "He Who Shapes" by Roger Zelazny (tie) Best Novelette: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny Best Short Story: "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison 1966.

Best Novel:Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes andBabel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (tie) Best Novella: "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance Best Novelette: "Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. d.i.c.kson Best Short Story: "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna 1967.

Best Novel:The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany Best Novella: "Behold the Man" by Michael Moorc.o.c.k Best Novelette: "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber Best Short Story: "Aye, and Gomorrah" by Samuel R. Delany 1968Best Novel:Rite of Pa.s.sage by Alexei Panshin Best Novella: "Dragonrider" by Anne McCaffrey Best Novelette: "Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson Best Short Story: "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm 1969.

Best Novel:The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Best Novella: "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison Best Novelette: "Time Considered as a Helix of SemiPrecious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany Best Short Story: "Pa.s.sengers" by Robert Silverberg 1970.

Best Novel:Ringworld by Larry Niven Best Novella: "Ill Met in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber Best Novelette: "Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon Best Short Story: no award 1971.

Best Novel:A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg Best Novella: "The Missing Man" by Katherine MacLean Best Novelette: "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson Best Short Story: "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg 1972.

Best Novel:The G.o.ds Themselves by Isaac Asimov Best Novella: "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke Best Novelette: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson Best Short Story: "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ 1973.

Best Novel:Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke Best Novella: "The Death of Doctor Island" by Gene Wolfe Best Novelette: "Of Mist, and Gra.s.s, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre Best Short Story: "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree Jr.Best Dramatic Presentation:Soylent Green Stanley R. Greenberg for screenplay (based on the novelMake Room! Make Room! ), Harry Harrison forMake Room! Make Room!

1974.

Best Novel:The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Best Novella: "Born with the Dead" by Robert Silverberg Best Novelette: "If the Stars Are G.o.ds" by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford Best Short Story: "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin Best Dramatic Presentation:Sleeper by Woody Allen Grand Master: Robert A. Heinlein 1975.

Best Novel:The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Best Novella: "Home Is the Hangman" by Roger Zelazny Best Novelette: "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy Best Short Story: "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber Best Dramatic Writing: Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder forYoung Frankenstein Grand Master: Jack Williamson 1976.

Best Novel:Man Plus by Frederik Pohl Best Novella: "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree Jr.

Best Novelette: "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov Best Short Story: "A Crowd of Shadows" by Charles L. Grant Grand Master: Clifford D. Simak 1977.

Best Novel:Gateway by Frederik Pohl Best Novella: "Stardance" by Spider and Jeanne Robinson Best Novelette: "The Screwfly Solution" by Racc.o.o.na Sheldon Best Short Story: "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison Special Award:Star Wars1978 Best Novel:Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre Best Novella: "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley Best Novelette: "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L. Grant Best Short Story: "Stone" by Edward Bryant Grand Master: L. Sprague de Camp 1979.

Best Novel:The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke Best Novella: "Enemy Mine" by Barry Longyear Best Novelette: "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin Best Short Story: "giANTS" by Edward Bryant 1980.

Best Novel:Timescape by Gregory Benford Best Novella: "The Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas Best Novelette: "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop Best Short Story: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak Grand Master: Fritz Leiber 1981.

Best Novel:The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe Best Novella: "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson Best Novelette: "The Quickening" by Michael Bishop Best Short Story: "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle*

*This Nebula Award was declined by the author.

1982.

Best Novel:No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop Best Novella: "Another Orphan" by John Kessel Best Novelette: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis Best Short Story: "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis1983 Best Novel:Startide Rising by David Brin Best Novella: "Hardfought" by Greg Bear Best Novelette: "Blood Music" by Greg Bear Best Short Story: "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois Grand Master: Andre Norton 1984.

Best Novel:Neuromancer by William Gibson Best Novella: "Press Enter *" by John Varley Best Novelette: "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler Best Short Story: "Morning Child" by Gardner Dozois 1985.

Best Novel:Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Best Novella: "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg Best Novelette: "Portraits of His Children" by George R. R. Martin Best Short Story: "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress Grand Master: Arthur C. Clarke 1986.

Best Novel:Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card Best Novella: "R & R" by Lucius Shepard Best Novelette: "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm Best Short Story: "Tangents" by Greg Bear Grand Master: Isaac Asimov 1987.

Best Novel:The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy Best Novella: "The Blind Geometer" by Kim Stanley Robinson Best Novelette: "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy Best Short Story: "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm Grand Master: Alfred Bester1988 Best Novel:Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold Best Novella: "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis Best Novelette: "Schrodinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger Best Short Story: "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow Grand Master: Ray Bradbury 1989.

Best Novel:The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Best Novella: "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold Best Novelette: "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis Best Short Story: "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey Landis 1990.

Best Novel:Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Best Novella: "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman Best Novelette: "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang Best Short Story: "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson Grand Master: Lester del Rey 1991.

Best Novel:Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick Best Novella: "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress Best Novelette: "Guide Dog" by Mike Conner Best Short Story: "Ma Qui" by Alan Brennert 1992.

Best Novel:Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Best Novella: "City of Truth" by James Morrow Best Novelette: "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent Best Short Story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis Grand Master: Frederik Pohl 1993Best Novel:Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Best Novella: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady Best Novelette: "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield Best Short Story: "Graves" by Joe Haldeman 1994.

Best Novel:Moving Mars by Greg Bear Best Novella: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick Best Novelette: "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold Best Short Story: "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup Grand Master: Damon Knight 1995.

Best Novel:The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer Best Novella: "Last Summer at Mars Hill" by Elizabeth Hand Best Novelette: "Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin Best Short Story: "Death and the Librarian" by Esther M. Friesner Grand Master: A. E. van Vogt 1996.

Best Novel:Slow River by Nicola Griffith Best Novella: "Da Vinci Rising" by Jack Dann Best Novelette: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers Best Short Story: "A Birthday" by Esther M. Friesner Grand Master: Jack Vance 1997.

Best Novel:The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre Best Novella: "Abandon in Place" by Jerry Oltion Best Novelette: "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" by Nancy Kress Best Short Story: "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen Grand Master: Poul Anderson 1998Best Novel:Forever Peace by Joe W. Haldeman Best Novella: "Reading the Bones" by Sheila Finch Best Novelette: "Lost Girls" by Jane Yolen Best Short Story: "Thirteen Ways to Water" by Bruce Holland Rogers Grand Master: Hal Clement 1999.

Best Novel:Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler Best Novella: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang Best Novelette: "Mars Is No Place for Children" by Mary A. Turzillo Best Short Story: "The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What Best Script:The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan Grand Master: Brian W. Aldiss 2000.

Best Novel:Darwin's Radio by Grey Bear Best Novella: "G.o.ddesses" by Linda Nagata Best Novelette: "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams Best Short Story: "macs" by Terry Bisson Best Script:Galaxy Quest by Robert Gordon and David Howard ADDITIONAL COPYRIGHT NOTICES FOR.

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"Hard Science Fiction" by Geoffrey A. Landis. Copyright Geoffrey A. Landis, 2003.

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"SF Humor: A Look at the Numbers" by Terry Bisson. Copyright Terry Bisson, 2003.

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