FINALISTS: 2013 Nebula Awards (With Free Fiction Links!)
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the 2013 Nebula Awards nominees (presented 2014), for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
- Fire with Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
- A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
- The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper)
- “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)
- “The Weight of the Sunrise” by Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13, exceprt)
- “Annabel Lee” by Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun)
- “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
- “Trial of the Century” by Lawrence M. Schoen (lawrencemschoen.com, 8/13; World Jumping)
- Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean, excerpt)
- “Paranormal Romance” by Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed 6/13)
- “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky)
- “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass” by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s 1/13)
- “Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters” by Henry Lien (Asimov’s 12/13, excerpt)
- “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/13)
- “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” by Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons 7/1 – 7/8/13)
- “The Sounds of Old Earth” by Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 1/13)
- “Selkie Stories Are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13)
- “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” by Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4, audio version)
- “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)
- “Alive, Alive Oh” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed 6/13)
- Doctor Who: “The Day of the Doctor” (Nick Hurran, director; Steven Moffat, writer) (BBC Wales)
- Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, director; Philip Gelatt, writer) (Start Motion Pictures)
- Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, director; Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, writers) (Warner Bros.)
- Her (Spike Jonze, director; Spike Jonze, writer) (Warner Bros.)
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, director; Simon Beaufoy & Michael Arndt as Michael deBruyn, writers) (Lionsgate)
- Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, director; Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro, writers) (Warner Bros.)
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
- When We Wake by Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
- Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
- The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
- Hero by Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
- September Girls by Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
- A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)
Congratulations to all the nominees!
The 49th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend will be held May 15-18th, 2014, in San Jose at the San Jose Marriott. The Awards Ceremony will be hosted by Toastmaster Ellen Klages. Borderland Books will host the mass autograph session from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 16th at the San Jose Marriott. This autograph session is open to the public and books by the authors in attendance will be available for purchase. Attending memberships, and more information about the Nebula Awards Weekend, are available at http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/. Membership rates increase on March 1. The Weekend is open to non-SFWA members.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. Voting will open to SFWA Active members on March 1, and close on March 30. More information is available from http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/how-to-vote/.
Burning Girls is also available on Tor.com. I’m keeping my eye out for the other stories.
Of course! Good ol’ Joe…always on top of the free fiction… 🙂
I swear there’s a Charlie Brown joke hiding in there somewhere, but that’s what you keep me around for, isn’t it?
Both the free fiction and the jokes! 🙂
I just left a comment at Adventures in Reading and updated the above post with a link to the Kenneth Schneyer story. (Thanks, Mike Allen!)
Score!
History tells me that Asimov’s can take a couple of weeks to post their stories.
Wow! The Red: First Light is a Nebula Finalist? That’s amazing! Really loved that book!
And a real win for self-publishing too!
Yes, with the caveat that Nagata has previously been published by “traditional” publishers and has previously won a Nebula Award. That is a bit different than if I wrote a novel, self published it, and hoped to possibly score an award nomination.
I’m not saying it isn’t going to happen in the future, but I wouldn’t read too much into Nagata’s nomination. It’s a small shift of possibility, but not a big win of self publishing.
Does Peter F. Hamilton ever get these things?
Nebulas? Not yet. His award history can be found here.
I’ll have to take a closer look at Gannon’s FIRE WITH FIRE. The packaging and blurbs make it look like a pretty standard Baen space opera.
Links are posted at Asimov’s.
Thanks, Joe! Links updated.