

Delany is famous not only for his the distinctive literary stylings of his fiction, but also for being one the first successful black science fiction writers and the first successful gay science fiction writer. Delany's Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection won early Nebulas, and are less known, but still widely read and studied. The earliest Nebula award went to Frank Herbert's unforgettable Dune, which is a landmark within the field, and has become even more widely known after being made into a movie (and an upcoming miniseries on the SciFi channel).

Alexei Panshin may be science fiction's least remembered author of a Nebula-winning novel.
