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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. SWEET! 0wnz0red is up for best novellette... by Behrooz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  2. Ack...no Ilium? by Visceral+Monkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where's Ilium by Simmons?
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0 380978938/ qid=1076123360/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-7360652-94254 22

    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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  3. Re:Interesting film script options by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In general I agree. I appreciate the difficulties of adapting a book like LoTR to screen, but in general, as a raw script, I feel Spirited Away was probably superior. On screen, LoTR was just more grand and breathtaking.

    But what are you doing giving sensible reasoned replies? This is still Slashdot isn't it?

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  4. Oryx and Crake by alphaseven · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm surprised Oryx and Crake didn't make the list, Atwood had been nominated for the Nebula before and the novel did make the Booker shortlist. One of my favourite novels of last year.

    Slashdot | Oryx and Crake

  5. Re:Interesting film script options by CAIMLAS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they're judging screenplays, it's one thing. A completed film is something else entirely.

    Not only do you have the script, but you also have the work of the (voice) actors, the editors ( a massive undertaking, and quite undervalued my most people that have never done it), the soundtrack composer, the director (definately a biggie, particularly when considering an auteur director), and a miriad of othre factors thrown in.

    Think of what any one of Quentin Tarantino's films would be like if he hadn't directed them; say they were directed by someone like Lucas or . They'd all have been shit, because for the most part, the scripts he uses don't stand out too much on their own. Each element makes up the sum of a film's quality.

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  6. Where's Quicksilver? by zoward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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