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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. Re:science fiction? by Nehemiah+S. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never before has technology (the lingua franca of sci-fi) played such a role as it currently does, IMO.

    Robert Heinlein wrote an editorial to John Campbell@Astounding/Analog to this effect circa 1956. It's pretty much been the staple belief of SF fans and writers everywhere, for as long as SF has been published -- with the publication of this series/book/etc, SF will be taken seriously. Next year, people will notice us.

    Unfortunately, it hasn't happened, for reasons which probably say more about the people that DON'T take it seriously than it says about anything intrinsic to the genre. There is such an incredible canvas of ideas available to the SF writer, so many ways to interpret or define the human experience that simply are not available to the standard ho-hum fictioneer; I think the general publics ignorance of SF is one of the great tragedies of our age.

    Well, maybe next year.

    Then again, the fact that the SFWA gave tripe like "Crouching Tiger" a major award makes me a bit ashamed to think these things...

    Rev. Neh

    --
    ... and there is no doubt, that one day he will be
    where the eye of his telescope has already been
  2. Re:"Quantum Rose" is a really cheesy title by Broccolist · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If you had seen the ghastly cover you would've liked it even less.

    And egads! That excerpt!

    Unease prickled Kamoj. She treaded water, her hair floating in swirls around her body, wrapping her slender waist and then letting go. Her reflection showed a young woman with black curls framing a heart-shaped face. She had dark eyes, as did most people in Argali, though hers were larger than usual, with long lashes that at the moment sparkled with drops of water.

    Ugh! Augh! This stuff won an award? It's so bad it makes me wince.

    I couldn't have done worse if I had made a special effort to be cliche. Describing someone with a reflection? "Heart-shaped face?" And that "at the moment," as though intentionally placed to break rhythm. I hadn't realized the Nebula people were so tasteless.