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2003 Nebula Awards

Posted by Hemos on from the the-winners-awarded dept.

seattlenerd writes "The 2003 Nebula Awards were awarded late Saturday night in Seattle (for the first time ever) by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Winners: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford, "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler (the previous two both published on the SCI FICTION site), and the script for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Noteworthy were comments made by GrandMaster honoree Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison, who introduced Silverberg, along with guest speaker Rick Rashid of Microsoft Research. To say nothing of Cory Doctorow's acceptance speech he didn't get to make, but has made available for "alternate historians."" I was at Penguicon this weekend, along with Neil Gaiman - congrats to him on the win, and to all the others.

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  1. Coraline is really freakin' creepy by fingerbear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I read Coraline for the first time this weekend. The book says it's for ages 8 and up, but this would have freaked the hell out of me when I was that young. It is definitely worth picking up if you like Gaiman's other stuff.

    1. Re:Coraline is really freakin' creepy by joeyGibson · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I loved Coraline, but I can't imagine reading that when I was eight. "Creepy as hell" doesn't really describe the case of the screaming meemies I got from reading it when I was 32...

    2. Re:Coraline is really freakin' creepy by rudbek · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I read it one chapter a night to my 7 yr old daughter. We both really enjoyed it. For what it is worth, she wasn't freaked out by it and it has been several weeks since we finished. (knock on wood).

  2. Neil Gaiman by lurwas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Congratulations to not only a great author, but also a great person.
    If you don't beleive me, read his journal at:
    http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp
    Keep up the good work with your journal Mr Gaiman, in these dire times of terror attacks and economic instability, your journal gives us poor lost souls an interesting and inspiring reading and above all, hope.

    For those who hasn't done so already, please consider reading American Gods and the Sandman stories they are great :)

  3. Re:You know. by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And in person, it's a very friendly arrogance. Quite a lot of successful F&SF writers have gone a long way on friendly arrogance. :)

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  4. typography... by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can somebody tell me why some titles are in boldface whereas the others are double-quoted?

  5. Jeffrey Ford by Bj�rn · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's good to see Jeffrey Ford get some more recognition. I really enjoyed his novels; The Well Built City Trilogy (consisting of The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond) and The Portrait of Mrs. Charburque. All of which are bizarre surreal fantasies. Don't expect anything like Tolkien. I think a link to Empire of Ice Cream may have been posted on slashdot before, but here it is again. He also has an excellent short story collection, The Fantasy Writers Assistant and Other Stories. And a few of the stories are actually SF. :-)

    Oh, and naturally Gaiman is terrific a writer as well.

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    Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. --Niels Bohr
  6. Audio CD Of Coraline is Great! Unabridged Too. by Tech+Observer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The audio cd is phenomenal. Look for it used. If you don't want to pay full price. The author reads it really, really well. There is some spooky haunting music that accompanies it. Very nice and worth the effort to track it down. It is unabridged as well. See Coraline CD [UNABRIDGED]