The final ballot for this year's Nebula Awards has been released by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The 2004 Nebula Awards Final Ballot includes eligible works first published or released in 2003 and 2004. Winners will be announced at the Nebula Award banquet in Chicago on April 30, 2005.

Founded in 1965, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America began with about 80 writers. It now has over 1,000 members. Active members of SFWA vote for the Nebula Awards. The awards are given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year's award. The script category was added in recent years. Each year, an anthology, including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up, is also published. Each spring the awards are given out at the Nebula Awards Banquet over a weekend of meetings and panel discussions.

The Grand Master Award is given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction or fantasy or both. Nominations for the Grand Master Nebula Award are made by the president of SFWA and awarded after approval of a majority of the SFWA officers.

Robert A. Heinlein (1974)

Jack Williamson (1975)

Clifford D. Simak (1976)

L. Sprague de Camp (1978)

Fritz Leiber (1981)

Andre Norton (1983)

Arthur C. Clarke (1985)

Isaac Asimov (1986)

Alfred Bester (1987)

Ray Bradbury (1988)

Lester Del Rey (1990)

Frederik Pohl (1992)

Damon Knight (1994)

A.E. Van Vogt (1995)

Jack Vance (1996)

Poul Anderson (1997)

Hal Clement (1998)

Brian Aldiss (1999)

Philip Jose Farmer (2000)

Ursula K. Le Guin (2003)

Robert Silverberg (2004)

Anne McCaffrey (2005)