2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced (sfwa.org)

Dave Knott writes: The winners of the 2015 Nebula Awards (presented 2016) have been announced. The Nebulas 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: Uprooted , Naomi Novik
Best Novella: Binti , Nnedi Okorafor
Best Novelette: "Our Lady of the Open Road," Sarah Pinsker
Best Short Story: "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers," Alyssa Wong
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Mad Max: Fury Road , Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: Updraft , Fran Wilde
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award: Sir Terry Pratchett
Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Service Award: Lawrence M. Schoen
2016 Damon Knight Grand Master Award: C.J. Cherryh

Comments

Re:A question for those familiar with these novels

[RabidReindeer]

Try 3-body Problem. It may be a slow start, though and I don't think it was a nominee. For that matter, I'm not sure it's a current-year book, but it was a good read.

I think The Water Knife was on the list, though.

In a sense, Dan Brown's Inferno is sci-fi, although like all his books, it's as much about arcana and action as about what-if. And mass-market writing, of course. Just heard it's coming out as a movie.

Re:I haz puppies?

[Anonymous Coward]

> I personally laud the inclusion of Space Raptor Butt Invasion over more agenda pushing drivel.

You laud a pure agenda driven nomination for not being agenda pushing?

Perhaps you don't know that the author of Space Raptor Butt Invasion has been shitting all over you creeps via twitter. He's even decided to have Zoe Quinn accept his prize on his behalf if he wins.

Fury Road isn't even Sci-Fi

[Anonymous Coward]

IMHO the Mad Max movie, as good as it was (and I liked it), shouldn't even qualify. It's not Sci Fi.

Re:Wow!

[serviscope_minor]

FACT: Every Nebula Award winner this year was a female, except two separate specialty awards

Oh moving the goalposts I see. Typical nutjob reasoning. First make up facts, then when people point out that the so-called "facts" are in fact not facts you move the goalposts.

So first it's that no awards went to straight white men. Now apparently it's no awards that count in some abstract sense went to straight white men. Please do make up your mind.

which went to a movie that was popular with feminists

Mad Max was popular full stop. It did well with critics, audience reviews and overall gross. I think it was in the top 20 grossing films worldwide, and top 5(?) for R-rated films.

Did I make that one up?

You made up the bit about "separate speciality awards" since the Nebulas make no such distinction. Basically what that amounts to is you cherry picking results.

So, you know what I think of your reasoning?

MEDIOCRE!

Re:I haz puppies?

[squiggleslash]

The gamergaters didn't get set off by a woman daring to whatever she did, but by the flood of stereotyping attack articles pushed by gamejournopros

The word "Gamergate" in relation to this movement was first used by Adam Baldwin, in a tweet linking to a video supposedly claiming Zoe Quinn was cheating on her "boyfriend". The "Ethics in journalism" "justifications" started later.