11 Facts About Nebula Awards

Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

The rules governing the Nebula Awards have changed several times during the awards' history, most recently in 2010.

Nebula Awards are one of the best known and most prestigious science fiction and fantasy awards and together with the Hugo Awards have been called "the most important of the American science fiction awards".

Nebula Awards are given annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the best science fiction or fantasy fiction published during the previous year.

The idea was based on the Edgar Nebula Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, and the idea to have a ceremony at which to present them was prompted by the Edgar and Hugo Nebula Awards.

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Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.

Brian Aldiss, in his book Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, claimed that the Nebula Award provided "more literary judgment" while the Hugo was a barometer of reader popularity, rather than artistic merit, though he did note that the winners of the two awards often overlapped.

David Langford and Peter Nicholls stated in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction that the two awards were often given to the same works, and noted that some critics felt that the Nebula selection reflected "political as much as literary ability" as it did not seem to focus as much on literary talent over popularity as expected.

Several people within the publishing industry have said that winning or being nominated for a Nebula Awards Award has effects on the author's career and the sales of that work.

Literary agent Richard Curtis said in his 1996 Mastering the Business of Writing that having the term Nebula Award on the cover, even as a nominee, was a "powerful inducement" to science fiction fans to buy a novel, and Gahan Wilson, in First World Fantasy Awards, claimed that noting that a book had won the Nebula Award on the cover "demonstrably" increased sales for that novel.

The unofficial anthology Nebula Award Winning Novellas, edited by Martin H Greenberg, contained ten stories which had won the novella award between 1970 and 1989.