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

Comments

Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Nebulous award

[tomhath]

Do the authors get fictitious awards?

Re:Nebulous award

[Anonymous Coward]

Reply hazy, try again.

Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction

[penguinoid]

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.

Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction

[Crashmarik]

You stay anonymous with all that hate, the rest of us will keep civilization afloat.

Seriously, Nancy Kress?

I gotta go with you on the Nancy Kress nominee. A spacefaring disease that floats through space as a spore cloud is a stretch. You need to start with panspermia or convergent evolution to even start to think about it. Then there is the whole traveling interstellar distances and it targeting compatible worlds.

Note I am biased, I haven't cared for her work since Beggars in Spain, which also completely broke suspension of disbelief.

Larry Niven

[Anonymous Coward]

'bout damn time.

Re:What Is Going On?

[Richard_at_work]

The problem is, it ends without answers - which seems to be an issue with many authors these days (Alastair Reynolds, I'm looking at you - several good concepts either dropped or petering out). Why does this seem to be a trend these days?

Re:What Is Going On?

[RDW]

Plenty of good books (Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Terry Pratchett, David Mitchell, Susanna Clarke, Joe Haldeman...) over the last decade on that list. What do you think is 'worth reading'?

Met a couple of the Jurists

[FreeUser]

I met a couple of the Nebula folks at the Chicago Printer's Row Lit Fest yesterday. Very nice people, with a genuine interest in Sci Fi and deep knowledge of the Genre.

A really nice change from the Hugo acrimony of weeks past. I'm delighted to see Niven in there ... he's certainly waited long enough! I'm even more delighted to see a number of books I haven't read yet winning ... looks like my pile of summer reading just got higher.

Gratifying

[Anonymous Coward]

Niven was a major influence on me as a budding SF author, and Schmidt was my editor on several Analog stories. Plus, Damon Knight was one of my instructors at Clarion back in 19[mumble][mumble].

Very satisfying.

Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction

[Triklyn]

nope, i'd say libertarians don't really care what other people do over there, it's their own rights they're concerned about.
get your own house in order... and all that.

the liberals say, don't criticize, it's a cultural difference, the abnegation of their own moral standards to the altar of moral relativity.

and the conservatives say, hey that's wrong... but protect your own people first, and that over there, is not my responsibility.

as the west wing put so humorously.
"Republicans want a huge military but they don't want to send it anywhere. The Democrats wants a small military and they want to send it everywhere."

Re:Most bloodthirsty fiction

[Captain Splendid]

,i>nope, i'd say libertarians don't really care what other people do over there, it's their own rights they're concerned about. get your own house in order... and all that.

So, nothing to do with what GP was talking about then?

"Republicans want a huge military but they don't want to send it anywhere. The Democrats wants a small military and they want to send it everywhere."

That was a cute joke in the 90s. Sadly, recent history's kinda fucked that up, no?