Nebula Award Winners, Hugo Nominees Announced

CBNobi writes "The 2002 Nebula Award winners have been announced this weekend. The winner for best novel was American Gods by Neil Gaiman (reviewed here at Slashdot), and the winner for best script was LotR:The Fellowship of the Ring. The nominees for the 2003 Hugo Awards have also been announced; Episodes of Enterprise, Firefly, and Buffy are all nominated for best short form dramatic presentation, and LotR and Spirited Away are among the nominees for best long form presentation."

Comments

Re:Vote for firefly!

[Anonymous Coward]

The Nebula Awards are selected by the writers themselves.

The Hugo Awards are awarded by members of that year's World Science Fiction Convention, which this year is Torcon 3 in Toronto.

If you just want to vote without attending the convention, you can buy a supporting membership. It's rather pricey ($40 US), but you get some other perqs. The attending membership is $185 US.

I went to the Chicago Worldcon a few years back. It was a blast! Expensive, but fun.

Re:I feel really old :-(

[Scarblac]

To my amazement, no-one has mentioned Vernor Vinge yet. His last two novels, _A Fire Upon The Deep_ and _A Deepness In The Sky_ are absolutely superb. They both won both Hugo and Nebula, iirc.

Another author I like is Greg Egan. Try _Diaspora_ and/or _Permutation City_. His ideas are way out there, but always very interesting.

FYI: SF's Trade Paper

[Embedded Geek]

To follow the Nebula race or pretty much anything about the SF or Fantasy trade, you just can't beat LocusMag, the online version of Locus. Some reviews (the print version is known for the most exhaustive reviews of SF - anything printed anywhere gets at least a mention), but the big emphasis is on fandom, awards (not just the Hugos & Nebulas), opening and closing of new markets, and ongoing trends (check out this piece on how SARS, war, and economic changes are turning our world into one that SF readers will find familiar).

It also has a disturbingly complete necrology of recently deceased members of the SF community. It seems like every other headline is "So & so dies," but that's to be expected with all the graying pulp era artists, writers, and fans.