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2014 Nebula Award Winners Announced

Dave Knott writes: The winners of the 2014 Nebula awards (presented 2015) have been announced. The awards are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and (along with the Hugos) are considered to be one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction. This year's winners are:

Best Novel: Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
Best Novella: Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress
Best Novelette: "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i", Alaya Dawn Johnson
Best Short Story: "Jackalope Wives", Ursula Vernon
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Guardians of the Galaxy, directed by James Gunn
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson
2015 Damon Knight Grand Master Award: Larry Niven
Solstice Award: Joanna Russ (posthumous), Stanley Schmidt
Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Service Award: Jeffry Dwight

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  1. Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having a constitution, accredited ambassadors and a seat in the U.N. does not prevent Saudi Arabia to jail women for driving or Iran from hanging homosexuals.

  2. Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction by penguinoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having a constitution, accredited ambassadors and a seat in the U.N. does not prevent the US from spying on all its citizens and strip searching travelers and jailing people who own the wrong chemicals.

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    Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
  3. Larry Niven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'bout damn time.

  4. Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As though stepping through an airport scanner compares to being thrown off a roof for one's sexual orientation.Small wonder that everyone is laughing at the moral equivalence liberals.