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18-457: Willis Davidge, a human fighter pilot, is stranded along with Jeriba Shigan, a Drac , on a hostile planet . The Drac are a race of aliens which are reptilian in appearance, and are hermaphrodites who reproduce parthenogenetically . The Tomorrow Testament chronicles the capture of Joanne Nicole, a human female, at the hands of the Dracs. Soon after she is blinded by a USEF bombing raid. She

36-544: A hostile planet . The story won the 1979 Nebula Award for Best Novella , as well as the 1980 Hugo Award for Best Novella , and was included by Longyear in his 1980 collection Manifest Destiny . It was followed by two sequels , "The Tomorrow Testament" and "The Last Enemy"; all three stories were included in Longyear's 1998 anthology The Enemy Papers (the version of "Enemy Mine" included in The Enemy Papers

54-523: A miniature holy book around its neck, containing teachings of the philosopher Davidge cursed when they first met. The human apologizes and forgives "Jerry" for insulting Mickey Mouse, whereupon it gives him the book to study the written language. The birth is difficult and Shigan dies after Davidge swears to raise Zammis in the Drac tradition. Zammis grows to be an inquisitive companion to "Uncle". Years later, they see signs of spaceships on their planet and begin

72-457: A multi-day trek to investigate, but Davidge is injured and asks Zammis to continue alone. Davidge is rescued by humans, but struggles to reintegrate because society is not ready to accept Dracs as equals though the war has ended. Recalling his promise, he sells a translation of the Drac holy book to fund passage to a Drac planet. Drac society is similarly unaccepting of humans and the Jeriba family

90-407: A reptile-like alien species. Willis Davidge (human) and Jeriba Shigan (Drac) are fighter pilots who crash onto an uninhabited planet during combat. Davidge goads Jeriba by cursing a revered Drac philosopher, with the alien insulting Mickey Mouse in return, but they quickly realize they must cooperate rather than fight in order to survive the hostile environment. As time passes, they adapt to life on

108-606: A website or in an electronic edition. The Nebula Award for Best Novella has been awarded annually since 1966. Novellas published by themselves are eligible for the novel award instead, if the author requests them to be considered as such. The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards . Nebula Award nominees and winners are selected by members of SFWA, although

126-572: Is defined by the organization as a novella if it is between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novel category , and for shorter lengths in the short story and novelette categories. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration, a novella must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible, provided they are released on either

144-532: Is taken in by a high-ranking Drac military officer, where, like Davidge, she learns the Talman. While she recovers, she discovers that the war between Dracs and Humans was the result of a conspiracy by another race called the Timans. She writes the tale of her life, capture, and personal growth, and submits it as the first book of the Talman not authored by a Drac: The Eyes of Joanne Nicole . The Last Enemy begins on

162-458: Is unaware of Zammis. Davidge recites their history to convince them of his sincerity, and they then track Zammis down to a psychiatric institute where the government intends to forcibly re-educate him out of his love of humans. Davidge and the Jeribas migrate to the now colonized planet and he finds peace in the cave where he and Shigan lived. It won the 1979 Nebula Award for Best Novella and

180-570: The 1980 Hugo Award for Best Novella . In 1985, the novella was adapted into a film of the same name , produced by 20th Century Fox . The film is directed by Wolfgang Petersen and stars Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. as Willis Davidge and Jeriba Shigan, respectively. Nebula Award for Best Novella The Nebula Award for Best Novella is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novellas . A work of fiction

198-538: The Nebula Awards ceremony held in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. The rules were changed to their current format in 2009. Previously, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in

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216-419: The authors of the nominees are not required to be members themselves. Each year, works are nominated by SFWA members during a period typically spanning from December 15 to January 31. The six works receiving the most nominations proceed to the final ballot, with additional nominees considered in the event of ties. Subsequently, members have about a month to vote on the final ballot, and the winners are announced at

234-512: The calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work. During the 59 nomination years, 201 authors have had works nominated; 56 of these have won, including co-authors and ties. Nancy Kress has won

252-577: The majority of the text, as Shizumaat is the Dracs' most important philosopher . Many of the works contains moral or philosophical statements as to how Dracs should live their lives. Dracs " Enemy Mine " is a science fiction novella by American writer Barry B. Longyear . It was originally published in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine . The novella's plot concerns two soldiers, one human and one reptilian-like alien , who find themselves stranded together on

270-495: The most awards: four out of eight nominations. Robert Silverberg , John Varley , and Roger Zelazny have each won twice out of eight, two, and three nominations, respectively. Silverberg's and Kress's eight nominations are the most of any authors, followed by Lucius Shepard and Michael Bishop at seven, and Kate Wilhelm and Avram Davidson with six. Bishop has the most nominations without receiving an award for novellas, though Wilhelm and Davidson have also not won an award. In

288-632: The planet Amadeen, on which the human-Drac war began. A treaty was resolved in The Tomorrow Testament which limited the fighting to this single planet. It chronicles how the conflict is eventually ended by the actions of Davidge and Yazi Ro, a Drac from Amadeen. This chapter consists of stories from Dracs' holy book. Contains the Story of Uhe, the Myth of Aakva, fragments of the Story of Shizumaat, and other tales. The Story of Shizumaat makes up

306-440: The planet while learning each other's language and culture. Jeriba reveals it is pregnant and that Dracs, who reproduce asexually and thus descend in a single line, recall their ancestors' history through hundreds of generations. Davidge is ashamed that he barely knows his own grandparents and resolves to memorize the Jeriba line, which takes 3 hours to recite and cycles between 5 given names, Zammis following Shigan. Shigan wears

324-402: Was labeled as "The Author's cut" and was significantly revised). "Enemy Mine" was adapted into the 1985 film of the same name , directed by Wolfgang Petersen , starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. , and produced by 20th Century Fox . A novelization of the film was written by Longyear and David Gerrold and published that same year. Humans are fighting an interstellar war with Dracs,

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