The Nebula Award! It’s like a Hugo Award, but slightly less prestigious. Don’t let that fool you into thinking that a Nebula Award winning novel is only “second best.” Think of the Nebula as Hugo’s hipster cousin. Like a collection of obscure vinyl, you might not of heard of every one of these titles hand picked for the award, but sometimes sweetest literary pools trickle off from the mainstream. These 10 novels are some of the finest sci-fi works ever penned, dating back awards’ beginnings in the latter half of the 20th century. Here they are, 10 Nebula Award winning sci-fi novels you need to read – way cooler than whatever conventional sci-fi books that Hugo is into.
The Left Hand of Darkness
(Ace Books)An all time genre great, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness is one of the most decorated works of sci-fi ever penned. The novel follows Genly Ai – an ambassador to the alien world of Gethen. The people of Gethen are an offshoot of humanity that evolved into an “ambisexual” species, they only take on sexual characteristics during a brief monthly mating period called “kemmer.” As a result, traditional human gender roles are entirely alien to them – and their society is completely different from the rest of the human-conquered universe. After Genly Ai’s cultural misunderstandings cause him to become a social exile, he and a Gethenian politician are forced to cross an icy wasteland in order to seek asylum. Part political thriller, part wilderness survival epic, part treatise on gender, The Left Hand of Darkness was entirely ahead of its time – perfect Nebula Award material.
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