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Nebula Award Nominees Online
Embedded Geek writes "The SFWA has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2003 Nebula awards. As has become standard over the past few years, the various magazines with short fiction nominees have placed the stories online to order to increase their exposure to voters (here and here for example). This year, the SFWA has helpfully linked all the online versions (as well as Amazon links for the novels and movies) on their ballot page. Those that aren't directly posted are available for free PDA download at fictionwise. Worth checking out, even if you aren't going to the banquet."
they didn't mention sco's law suit in the science fiction section. must not be a good repository. ;)
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Sweet... 0wnz0r3d is up for best novelette.
Highly cool, Cory Doctorow is bloody brilliant. If you haven't read 0wnz0red yet, go do it.
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Forget the Oscars, Peter Jackson must be sighing relief that he got a Nebula "Premilinary Nomination".
I'm insulted that LOTR didnt get a nod this year. That book was a great work of fiction. I know it came out two years ago with Fellowship, but it didnt win that year either [wasnt even nominated! as if the thing had come out 46 years ago!]. Truely insulting to the fantasy genre.
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Connie Willis is one of my favorite SciFi authors. IIRC she has won more Nebula awards than any other author. Or maybe it was some other award. Anyway, she's really good. Excellent short stories in Impossible Things , many of which won the Nebula award, as did Doomsday Book . She has several other excellent SciFi books. Highly recommended.
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I thought the "Scripts" section at the end was rather interesting. Nominees included:
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- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Spirited Away
So, the question is - which of those is the most worthy?
Hmm, I wonder if we can have an anime fans vs. Tolkien fans flamewar? That might be fun
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Lets hope it at least gets nominated for a Hugo. Best book I've read in a long time.
On the other hand, I had no Idea that Resnick did a sequel to Santiago. Time to pick it up.
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I tried the fictionwise link looking for the free downloads, but there weren't any. What a worthless link. I registered even, and tried adding the book to my shopping cart. Bastards.
Or did I miss something? :)
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*narrowly ducks to avoid moron beam* sorry, i do believe that i am quite the idiot in this situation. /me wishes /. had a 'delete comment' function.
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Just how long will the Nebula Awards broadcast be delayed by the network just to make sure nothing untoward gets broadcast?
22 years ago, I met Samuel Delaney ("call me Chip") at a SFWA event I was totally unqualified to attend (but thanks guys!) due to my semi-pro fanzine Event Horizon.
Offtopic? Oh, all right. But Chip was a decent guy to me, as were Stanley Schmidt and half a dozen other movers in SF.
Ah, the days when I could indulge in activities that didn't turn a profit.
How about an "All your source code are belong to us" flash animation? I think that would make up for SCO's lost publicity.
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is absolutely incredible. Sci-fi, comedy, mystery, even a touch of romance thrown in there just to round things out. Mostly comedy, though. Very well written.
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Seems as if the ballot has been taken off line due to /. or some other reason, but here is the cache.
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404 error - Object Not found. That book changed my life
Dunno what the big fuss is about. Sorta interesing ideas, mediocre writting, goes nowhere really interesting.
*Bloody brilliant*? It's like early crap Bruce Sterling (if you thought Involution Ocean had a coherent plot, you're free to disagree), written by a script kiddie whose entire interaction with the entire world is via Slashdot.
I was a little surprised not to see Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver on the list, a book I've heard many people (including one of the authors up for a Nebula in the Novel category) describe as a shoe-in for both the Hugo and Nebula. Did it not qualify due to time contraints or something?
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hmm, the grammar is slightly better than most posts on slashdot, other than that, I'd give it a 2 out of 10. With a title like that I should have known. Any author that tells you writing doesn't matter on his first page is to be avoided. The story is dull, the subsidiary characters soft, and the obsession with extraneous detail (why is he telling me about a "his multi-tiered Swedish Disposable Moderne desque", it's really neither ironic nor even convincing as a parody of consumerism) is a bit tiring. And his choice of vocabulary, I mean really, how many times have I heard of machines bucking and humming, and abstract silicone. It reads like a poorly executed parody.
As for the dialog, I leave you with this quote:
Junk food for the mind.
I see that Fallen Host by Lyda Morehouse is on the novel nomination list. This is great! I actually know Lyda, and her next book looks like it will be great! If you haven't read her LINK series, you need to start. They're very much like Gibson and Stevenson, but with an interesting twist. I expect most geeks who like Gibson and Stevenson novels will love the LINK series.
Ironically, Fallen Host is no longer being printed by the publisher. I guess due to declining sales, even though it's a Nebula Award nominee, and book #2 of a 4-book series. I can't find it on Amazon anymore. New copies aren't available on BN.com anymore, either, although they do list some used copies. Also check your local bookstores, including used bookstores.