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Nebula Award Nominees Online

Posted by michael on from the who-needs-screeners dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Interesting film script options by Darken_Everseek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In terms of script; Spirited Away. TTT made a far better book than movie.

  2. To Say Nothing Of The Dog by devphil · · Score: 3, Insightful


    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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    You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
  3. Re:Interesting film script options by Coryoth · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I appreciate the difficulties of adapting a book like LoTR to screen

    Codewords for "It sucked, but I am too much of a geek for my brain to be able to comprehend the fact."


    Not really. What I was trying to say was that while the Lord of the Rings script was easier in the sense that it wasn't original material (and it was the originality and creativity of Spirited Away that made it stand out), it had its own difficulties in managing to adapt such a well loved book to screen - generally you'll either offend purists, or ordinary move goers, or both. I felt the script writers did an excellent job of treading that very difficult line, and it was an exceptional achievement.

    In the end, on raw papaer, Spirited Away, with its near endless imagination, wins out though.

    Jedidiah.
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  4. Re:SWEET! 0wnz0red is up for best novellette... by int18 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *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.

  5. I wish it was a parody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A tech writer. Why not just break his goddamned fingers and poke his eyes out? Never write another line of code, never make the machine buck and hum and make his will real in the abstract beauty of silicon? Tech writers were coders' janitors, documenting the plainly self-evident logic of APIs and code-structures, niggling over punctuation and grammar and frigging stylebooks, like any of it mattered -- human beings could parse English, even if it wasn't well-formed, even if you had a comma-splice or a dangling participle.

    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:

    "Dee-licious and noo-tritious,"

    Junk food for the mind.