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."

Comments

Re:Where's Lord of the Rings?

[srmalloy]

I'm insulted that LOTR didnt get a nod this year.

Then you either didn't read down far enough, or didn't read closely enough. "Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers" is under 'Scripts' at the bottom of the page.

Connie Willis

[Beolach]

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.

Re:Connie Willis

[scotch]

I agree, her stuff is really engaging, even for non-science-fiction fans. The latest book of hers I read, Passage, while basically a good story and very touching, was way to long for the material. Willis communicates urgency, frustration, and dispair better than just about anyone, but it just went on a little too long in Passage.

Re:Connie Willis

[tbmaddux]

IIRC she has won more Nebula awards than any other author. Or maybe it was some other award.

Past winners are here for your reference. Connie Willis has won 6: best novellette for "Fire Watch" and best short story for "A Letter from the Clearys" in 1983. She won best novella for "The Last of the Winnebagos" in 1988 and best novellette for "At the Rialto" the following year. In 1992 she won best novel for "Doomsday Book," and best short story for "Even the Queen." It's worth pointing out at this point that both of those also won their respective Hugo awards.

Other big winners of Nebula awards are Ursula K. Leguin (with 5, with 3 for best novel), Greg Bear (with 5, 2 for best novel), Joe Haldeman (with 4, 2 for best novel), Samuel R. Delany (with 4, 2 for best novel).

Fictionwise link is worthless

[fucksl4shd0t]

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? :)

Re:Fictionwise link is worthless

[Anonymous Coward]

You are half right. The link doesn't show any free ebooks on that page, but there are free books if you scroll down and look for "Free eBooks" in the "Browse" section of the menu on the left side.

Re:Fictionwise link is worthless

[fucksl4shd0t]

Thank you! ACs aren't completely worthless after all. :)

Here it is for the rest of you lot.