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."

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no mention of sco's law suit

[stonebeat.org]

they didn't mention sco's law suit in the science fiction section. must not be a good repository. ;)

SWEET! 0wnz0red is up for best novellette...

[Behrooz]

Sweet... 0wnz0r3d is up for best novelette.

Highly cool, Cory Doctorow is bloody brilliant. If you haven't read 0wnz0red yet, go do it.

Where's Lord of the Rings?

[-kertrats-]

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.

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

[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).

Interesting film script options

[Coryoth]

I thought the "Scripts" section at the end was rather interesting. Nominees included:

- 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 :-)

Jedidiah

Re:Interesting film script options

[Coryoth]

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?

Jedidiah.

Ack...no Ilium?

[Visceral Monkey]

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.

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.

Tape delay?

[LostCluster]

Just how long will the Nebula Awards broadcast be delayed by the network just to make sure nothing untoward gets broadcast?

To Say Nothing Of The Dog

[devphil]

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.

Where's Quicksilver?

[zoward]

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?