Possible Embarrassment, Pt. 2: The Nebulas

No one pointed and laughed the first time, so here comes round two: the Nebulas. I intend to do this at least one more time, for the World Fantasy Awards, and I might continue on to do the more specialized -- or maybe I mean "minor" -- awards as well. That all depends, of course, on how few of the WFA winners I've managed to read so far.

In case you missed the Hugo Edition, below is a list of winning novels (in this case of the Nebula Award), which I've annotated to see how many of them I've read (and, occasionally, about other things as well). I did the first one because Scott Lynch had just bragged about finishing reading all of the Hugo-winners, so blame him.

Anyway, these are your Nebula Award-winning novels:

• 2005 Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
  No; Ellen Asher and I seem to be unofficially alternating reading Joe's books for the SFBC, and this one was her turn. Maybe someday.
  
• 2004 Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
  Yes
• 2003 The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
  No
• 2002 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  Yes
• 2001 The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
  No
• 2000 Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
  Yes
• 1999 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
  No
• 1998 Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
  Yes. (It was my turn that year.)
  
• 1997 The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre
  No
• 1996 Slow River by Nicola Griffith
  Yes. This is the best science fiction novel about sewage treatment I've ever read. Hell, it's the best novel of any genre about sewage treatment, I bet. And Griffith is now yet another writer who's left SF for The Dark Side (mysteries), like John D. MacDonald and Donald Westlake.
  
• 1995 The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
  No. Sawyer's another writer whom I only seem to manage to read every other book of his, though I usually enjoy the ones I do hit.
  
• 1994 Moving Mars by Greg Bear
  Yes
• 1993 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  Yes
• 1992 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  Yes
• 1991 Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
  Yes
• 1990 Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  Yes
• 1989 The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  No
• 1988 Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
  Yes
• 1987 The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
  No, but I have a copy, and I've been meaning to read it for about ten years now.
  
• 1986 Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card
  No
• 1985 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  No (see comments on Hugo list)
  
• 1984 Neuromancer by William Gibson
  Yes
• 1983 Startide Rising by David Brin
  Yes
• 1982 No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
  No
• 1981 The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
  Yes
• 1980 Timescape by Gregory Benford
  No
• 1979 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
  No
• 1978 Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
  Yes
• 1977 Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  Yes
• 1976 Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
  Yes. In fact, I read it nearly half a dozen times in the early '80s, because I kept picking it up in my library after having forgotten I'd read it before. I'm not sure if that's exactly a recommendation, but I did like it every time.
  
• 1975 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  Yes
• 1974 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  No. I know I should, but it's just not a book I have any great interest in reading.
  
• 1973 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  Yes
• 1972 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
  No; though I did try once and probably will try again, one day.
  
• 1971 A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
  I don't think so, but I've read a lot of Silverbob novels, and I sometimes forget which one is which.
  
• 1970 Ringworld by Larry Niven
  No. Oddly, I have read the last two "Ringworld" novels, but not the first one.
  
• 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  No
• 1968 Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
  Yes. One of the short list of "Great Heinlein juveniles not written by Heinlein" (along with John Barnes' Orbital Resonance, Steven Gould's Jumper, and a few others).
  
• 1967 The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
  Yes. I can't claim to have completely understood it, but I did read every word.
  
• 1966 (tie) Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
  No
• 1966 (tie) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  Yes
• 1965 Dune by Frank Herbert
  Yes

I've read 23 of 42: just a little more than half. Oddly, I've read all of the winners from even-numbered years for the past two decades, but mostly not the books from odd-numbered years. I have no explanation for this, but it's a fun pattern. To hit every even-numbered year, I'd have to read Babel-17, Ringworld, The Gods Themselves, The Dispossessed, Timescape, No Enemy But Time and Speaker for the Dead. If Dispossessed wasn't in there, I'd probably do it...