1980 Nebula Winners
Novel - Timescape by Gregory Benford
Novella - "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas
Novelette - "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop
Short Story - "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak
1981 Nebula Winners
Novel - The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Novella - "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson
Novelette - "The Quickening" by Michael Bishop
Short Story - "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle
1982 Nebula Winners
Novel - No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
Novella - "Another Orphan" by John Kessel
Novelette - "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
Short Story - "A Letter From the Clearys" by Connie Willis
1983 Nebula Winners
Novel - Startide Rising by David Brin
Novella - "Hardfought" by Greg Bear
Novelette - "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
Short Story - "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois
1984 Nebula Winners
Novel - Neuromancer by William Gibson
Novella - "Press Enter g" by John Varley
Novelette - "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler
Short Story - "Morning Child" by Gardner Dozois
1985 Nebula Winners
Novel - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Novella - "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg
Novelette - "Portraits of His Children" by George R. R. Martin
Short Story - "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress
1986 Nebula Winners
Novel - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Novella - "R & R" by Lucius Shepard
Novelette - "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm
Short Story - "Tangents" by Greg Bear
1987 Nebula Winners
Novel - The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Novella - "The Blind Geometer" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Novelette - "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy
Short Story - "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm
1988 Nebula Winners
Novel - Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
Novella - "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis
Novelette - "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
Short Story - "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow
1989 Nebula Winners
Novel - The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Novella - "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold
Novelette - "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis
Short Story - "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis