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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.

    Karma, karma, everywhere, so let's all have a drink!

  2. I'd just like to say.... by mblase · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...that in light of the current climate for authors, musicians, etc. trying to protect their copyrights online to unnecessary extremes, it's very nice to see that two of the five Nebula winners (Novella, "The Ultimate Earth", and Short Story, "The Cure for Everything") are freely available online, along with many of the non-winning nominees as well.

    It's nice to know that professional literature can still be free, even if professional music often can't.

  3. 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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  4. Re:Crouching Tiger? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a SFWAn (i.e., a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) I'll answer this:

    SFWA, the organization which awards the Nebulas (and does lots of other stuff as well -- check out the Web site) is an organization for writers of both science fiction and fantasy, as the name implies. And yes, it was originally the Science Fiction Writers of America -- and then, briefly, SFFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, before we decided that changing a well-known acronym like SFWA (prounounced "sif-wa") was pointless, and held a vote to make the acronym SFWA regradless of what the actual name was -- and yes, the Nebulas have generally been dominated by science fiction at the expense of fantasy, but a) fantasy has gained a lot of ground over the last couple of decades, both critically and commercially, and it would be silly to ignore that, and b) the dramatic Nebulas (when we've awarded them -- we haven't always) have generally been a bit broader-based that the literary Nebulas, in recognition of the fact that Hollywood often turns out some really good SF/F while avoiding those labels for marketing reasons.

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  5. 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.