2006 Nebula Awards

Embedded Geek writes "Locus is reporting on the winners of the 2006 Nebula Awards (as determined by voting by fellow SF authors). Joe Haldeman picked up the Novel award for Camouflage while Kelly Link took home both the Novella ("Magic for Beginners") and Novelette ("The Faery Handbag"). Off the printed page, Joss Whedon beat out Battlestar Galactica with his script for Serenity. You can check out the final ballot here or look at past winners here."

Comments

This award is bogus...

[Kerago]

No China Mieville? The judges are on crack.

Jonathon Strange etc.

[PGillingwater]

This is an amazing first novel for a woman writer, with believable characters and interesting approach to world deconstruction. To really appreciate it, you should be somewhat familiar with the works of English 19th Century fiction, including Thomas Hardy, the Brontes, and especially Jane Austen. In some ways it's a cross between Jane Austen and Tolkien, but with a little Pratchett-esque humour.

Once you've finished it, and if you've acquired a taste for historical fiction with an SF&F spin, then check out Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver (first volume of the excellent Baroque Cycle trilogy.) It's got everything from cryptography, alchemy, monadism, pirates, hangings, torture through to sword fights, exciting chases and doomed love stories in world-wide adventure. Great stuff!