The SFWA have released their list of nominees for this year’s Nebula Awards.
I have to admit I’m pretty dumbfounded by the novel category.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Cauldron by Jack McDevitt
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Superpowers by David J. Schwartz
“The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro (Analog, Mar08)
“Dark Heaven” by Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jan07)
“Dangerous Space” by Kelley Eskridge (Dangerous Space, Aquaduct Press, Jun07)
“The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF, Aug08)
“The Duke in His Castle” by Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, Jun08)
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes (F&SF, Feb08)
“Dark Rooms” by Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 07)
“Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel (F&SF, Jan08)
“Night Wind” by Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08)
“Baby Doll” by Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )
“Kaleidoscope” by K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May07)
“The Button Bin” by Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07)
“The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking, Jul07)
“Trophy Wives” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, Jul08)
“The Tomb Wife” by Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, Aug07)
“Don’t Stop” by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, Jun07)
The Dark Knight by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher, David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., Jul08)
WALL-E Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
The Shrine by Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)
Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt, Oct08)
Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
Savvy by Ingrid Law (Dial, May08)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt and Company, Apr08)
Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, Sep08)
Winners will be announced at the Nebula Award Banquet which this year will be held on the weekend April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles.
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Interesting list. So how did Superpowers, which was not on the preliminary ballot, make it to the short list?
Opps, I forgot the link: http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2009/01/news-2008-preliminary-nebula-award-ballot/
18. Nebula Juries
1. The SFWA® President shall appoint, and the NAR editor administer three Nebula juries, each consisting of at least three (3) and not more than seven (7) members.
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3. The Novel Jury shall have the option of adding one work to the novel category.
After this year’s award the Nebula will have a new set of guidelines which, among other things, eliminates Nebula Juries, so no more surprises.
Got it. Thanks Greyweather.
Correction from SFWA:
“Upon a procedural review, we discovered an error in the final Nebula tally. Two works that should be on the final ballot were not listed: the novelette “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” – James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s, Feb08) and “Mars: A Traveler’s Guide” – Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, Jan08″