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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:"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.