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2006 Nebula Awards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-the-news-today dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Meh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Both stories by Kelly Link are IMHO excellent. I'd even say that they are among the best I've ever read.

    They are also available online:
    - Magic for Beginners
    - The Faery Handbag

  2. Re:Haldeman deserves it for sure... by Goncyn · · Score: 4, Informative
    Reading the finalist listing though, I've seen that there is the damn fine novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke. Very amazing book, superbly written, it even has annotations in essay style, definitely a contender which I recommend to anyone interested in reading a good novel and as a fantasy genre initiation (though I would never define it as 'fantasy').

    I recently finished reading this novel, and it was outstanding. I highly recommend it. Incidentally, it won several other awards, including the Locus Award, the 2005 World Fantasy Award, and the 2005 Hugo Award. You can find out more about it here: http://www.jonathanstrange.com/

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  3. I wonder about the Nebulas by edremy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I look over the list and see two contenders that shouldn't even be on an awards list, much less win (Haldeman and McDevitt, the former is slipping and the latter hasn't had a decent book since The Hercules Text), yet another in an unending series (give it a rest Terry), and one that's so obscure that even Amazon doesn't carry it (Ryman).

    I haven't seen Wright's fantasy anywhere (despite living in Virginia about an hour from his home), although I'd buy it based on the wonderful Golden Age, so I can't speak to it.

    At least to me the only entry on that list worthy of the award is Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I suspect it's simply too strange for most of the folks to vote for. But it's everything an award like this *should* recognize- beautiful world building, wonderful characters and a prose style that really sets the tone for a different world. (I can't remember the last piece of fiction with laugh-out-loud footnotes). It's not an easy read, but it's a *great* read nonetheless.

    There's simply so many other good books published in the last year to have this list. If you want fantasy, where's The Prince of Nothing series? I don't know if Banks' The Algebraist is eligible since it was published in England earlier, but even though it's not Banks' best it still outclasses almost the entire list. Olympos wasn't perfect, but again should have been up there.

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  4. ok I'm stupid what's the difference between... by stry_cat · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's the difference between a NOVELLA, NOVELETTE, and a SHORT STORY?

    From:
    http://www.sfwa.org/awards/faq.htm#6

            * Novel -- 40,000 words or more
            * Novella -- 17,500-39,999 words
            * Novelette -- 7,500-17,499 words
            * Short Story -- 7,499 words or fewer
            * Script -- a professionally produced audio, radio, television, motion picture, multimedia, or theatrical script

  5. The Nebulous Awards by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Nebulous Awards were also announced today:

    Best Whatever - Whats-his-name
    Best Ya Know - That one guy
    Top Thingamajig - Some hot chick
    Honorable Mention - Whoever