The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the final 2006 Nebula Awards Ballot for best fiction. SF Signal provides links to the shorter works available online. Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to read some of the best work recently written.
Novels:
The Privilege of the Sword - Ellen Kushner
Seeker - Jack McDevitt
The Girl in the Glass - Jeffrey Ford
Farthing - Jo Walton
From the Files of the Time Rangers - Richard Bowes
To Crush the Moon - Wil McCarthy
Novellas:
Burn - James Patrick Kelly
"Sanctuary" - Michael A. Burstein
"The Walls of the Universe" - Paul Melko
"Inclination" - William Shunn
Novelettes:
"The Language of Moths" - Chris Barzak
"Walpurgis Afternoon" - Delia Sherman
"Journey into the Kingdom" - M. Rickert
"Two Hearts" - Peter S. Beagle
"Little Faces" - Vonda N. McIntyre
Short Stories:
"Echo" - Elizabeth Hand
"Helen Remembers the Stork Club" - Esther M. Friesner
"The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations" - Eugene Mirabelli
"Henry James, This One's For You" - Jack McDevitt
"An End To All Things" - Karina Sumner-Smith
"Pip and the Fairies" - Theodora Goss
Scripts:
Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., released 17 Jun05)
Howl's Moving Castle - Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (Studio Ghibli and Walt Disney Pictures, U.S. Premier 10 Jun05. Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones.)
Unfinished Business - Michael Taylor (Battlestar Galactica, Dec06)
The Girl in the Fireplace - Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, BBC/The Sci-Fi Channel, Oct06 (broadcast 10 Oct06))
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:
Magic or Madness - Justine Larbalestier
Devilish - Maureen Johnson
The King of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner
Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness - Scott Westerfeld
Peeps - Scott Westerfeld
Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Link.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Final Nebula Awards Ballot Posted
3 comments:
Wow, I've read so few of the works on this ballot. When the Hugo nominees come out, I usually feel much more on top of things. I wonder if this makes me a shallow person (being more in tune with a popular award than a "literary" award)? :)
Still, a lot of things on here that I hope to read in the coming year.
I felt pretty out of touch with this ballot too, Archren. Do you think the Nebula is a more literary award? Maybe it's just a popularity contest among authors instead of among fans. I wouldn't know; award politics are beyond me.
But I'm glad for the opportunity to download lots of free short works. :)
Well, I've heard some things about internal politicking for the Nebula awards voting: you vote for me, I'll vote for you; gosh I liked the stand you took on the forums; it's his/her turn; that sort of thing. It's a pretty small community with normal small community politics. Still, they have pretty high standards, and a very different taste than the Hugos, which probably leads to more works being touted before the public.
The Nebulas tend to prefer darker, more introspective works than the Hugos, although I can't understand why Spin didn't make the Nebula list. The Hugos are more likely to be adventurous and/or accessible. Still, if you were to somehow read ALL the Hugo AND Nebula nominees from the last 30 years, I bet you'd get a phenomenal view of the range of the field, what it's capable of. (I'm not that crazy, I'm still trying to work through Hugo winners.)
Still, I LOVE the fact that they're making the nominate short fiction available for free. I was so happy when the Hugos did that two years ago, I read all the nominated works, and have ever since. It saves you from having to hunt down obscure magazines or anthologies where the nominated work might be the only good thing in it.
Oh, and I would personally recommend skipping "Sanctuary" by Burstein. It frankly sucked (very trite), like all his award-nominated stuff does, and I can't see how he keeps getting nominated. I hear that he's a great networker and a really nice guy and so all his friends at the NESFA keep nominating him. Go figure.
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