Nebula Award for Best Novel
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Nebula Award for Best Novel
Order these Nebula Best Novel winners by the year each won. You place all 43 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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How to play the Nebula Award for Best Novel timeline
The cards are Nebula Award winners for best novel, each with its author printed underneath, and you order them by the year they won. One winner begins on the timeline with its year visible. For each new card, choose the gap where it belongs. Choose right and the year shows; choose wrong and the book lands in its true spot anyway, costing one of three lives.
Because the Nebula is voted on by fellow writers, the list includes plenty of books that never became household names alongside the genre classics. Expect space opera, planetary epics, time travel, fantasy and near-future thrillers. A handful of authors won it more than once, and books from the same series can sit far apart. Winners that also took the Hugo may feel familiar but aren't always easier to date.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 43 cards you might be dealt, with 15 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Timescape Gregory Benford
- The Claw of the Conciliator Gene Wolfe
- Startide Rising David Brin
- Neuromancer William Gibson
- Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card
- The Falling Woman Pat Murphy
- The Healer's War Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin
- Doomsday Book Connie Willis
- Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer
- Slow River Nicola Griffith
- Forever Peace Joe Haldeman
- Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler
- The Quantum Rose Catherine Asaro
- The Speed of Dark Elizabeth Moon
- Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold
- Seeker Jack McDevitt
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon
- The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi
- Blackout/All Clear Connie Willis
- Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie
- Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer
- All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders
- The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin
- A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker
- Network Effect Martha Wells
- Babel R. F. Kuang
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