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Nebula Award Winners

Posted by timothy on from the quick-they're-handing-out-nebulae dept.

jbennetto writes: "The Nebulas are out! The winning novel is A Quantum Rose, a SF/Romance backwater-standalone in a series of six books about an interstellar conflict between human empires. The author, Catherine Asaro, is a physicist. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won best script, and Jack Williamson, Kelly Link, and Severna Park won the short fiction catagories."

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  1. Little things by GraZZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was looking at a Nebula last night, unfortunatly the Quantum Roses were too small to see (and whenever I tried looking for them, this punk Heisenberg told me I wouldn't be able to find them....)

    I didn't even bother looking for the Hidden Dragon.

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  2. Re:hey now by pokeyburro · · Score: 2, Funny

    That award actually went to Bill Gates during his apologetic testimony in the anti-trust case.

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  3. science fiction? by tps12 · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think we are at the beginning of a great increase in the popularity of science fiction.

    Never before has technology (the lingua franca of sci-fi) played such a role as it currently does, IMO. Meanwhile, the Sci-Fi Channel (could Jules Verne even have imagined such a thing in his wildest fantasies?) is among the fastest-growing cable channels on television, according to ratings.

    I'm thinking, maybe this stuff isn't just for antisocial nerds any more. Perhaps science fiction finally matters.

    It won't be long now before the Nebula awards are as popular, as talked about, as the Emmies or the Clios!

    Any thoughts?

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    1. Re:science fiction? by WinPimp2K · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, that steaming pile of goo is a real "crossover" show. I wish John Edwards would cross back over to Oxygen or Lifetime where his target audience hangs out.

      Of course, the Sci-Fi channel nowadays has about as much to do with SF as MTV has to do with music now.

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  4. In other awards... by Corporate+Drone · · Score: 5, Funny
    the Microsoft legal team wins in this year's "best technical fiction" category for their work on the remedy phase of the monopoly trial...

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  5. Re:Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's barely fantasy

    I was under the impression it wasn't really fantasy, but a telling of a chinese folk tale.

    I suppose I could do a Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox with some nifty ninja moves as they descent upon Evil Harry Dread in his Shed of Doom and get at least a nomination...

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  6. Heisenberg by proverbialcow · · Score: 2, Funny
    I was looking at a Nebula last night, unfortunatly the Quantum Roses were too small to see (and whenever I tried looking for them, this punk Heisenberg told me I wouldn't be able to find them....)

    Heisenberg didn't say you couldn't find them. He said that you could either know their positions or their velocities (speed + direction), but not both.
    Let me guess: you went looking for them and for some reason chose a method that determined their velocities. :P

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