sfadb: Nebula Awards 1986

Novel

• Winner: Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
• Blood Music, Greg Bear (Arbor House)
• Dinner at Deviant's Palace, Tim Powers (Ace)
• Helliconia Winter, Brian W. Aldiss (Atheneum)
• The Postman, David Brin (Bantam Spectra)
• The Remaking of Sigmund Freud, Barry N. Malzberg (Ballantine Del Rey)
• Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling (Arbor House)

Novella

• Winner: “Sailing to Byzantium”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Feb 1985)
• “24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai”, Roger Zelazny (Asimov's Jul 1985)
• “The Gorgon Field”, Kate Wilhelm (Asimov's Aug 1985)
• “Green Days in Brunei”, Bruce Sterling (Asimov's Oct 1985)
• “Green Mars”, Kim Stanley Robinson (Asimov's Sep 1985)
• “The Only Neat Thing to Do”, James Tiptree, Jr. (F&SF; Oct 1985)

Novelette

• Winner: “Portraits of His Children”, George R. R. Martin (Asimov's Nov 1985)
• “Dogfight”, Michael Swanwick & William Gibson (Omni Jul 1985)
• “The Fringe”, Orson Scott Card (F&SF; Oct 1985)
• “A Gift from the GrayLanders”, Michael Bishop (Asimov's Sep 1985)
• “The Jaguar Hunter”, Lucius Shepard (F&SF; May 1985)
• “Paladin of the Lost Hour”, Harlan Ellison (Universe 15; Twilight Zone Dec 1985)
• “Rockabye Baby”, S. C. Sykes (Analog mid-Dec 1985)

Short Story

• Winner: “Out of All Them Bright Stars”, Nancy Kress (F&SF; Mar 1985)
• “Flying Saucer Rock & Roll”, Howard Waldrop (Omni Jan 1985)
• “The Gods of Mars”, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann & Michael Swanwick (Omni Mar 1985)
• “Heirs of the Perisphere”, Howard Waldrop (Playboy Jul 1985)
• “Hong's Bluff”, William F. Wu (Omni Mar 1985)
• “More Than the Sum of His Parts”, Joe Haldeman (Playboy May 1985)
• “Paper Dragons”, James P. Blaylock (Imaginary Lands)
• “Snow”, John Crowley (Omni Nov 1985)