[UPDATED] FINALISTS: 2008 Nebula Awards
The finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards have been announced:
[Note: Title links go to free online versions]
[3/2 UPDATE: The Nebula site has announced corrections. Two works that should be on the final ballot were not listed. Corrections made below. (via SF Awards Watch)]
NOVEL
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow [See SF Signal review]
- Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Cauldron by Jack McDevitt
- Brasyl by Ian McDonald [See SF Signal review]
- Making Money by Terry Pratchett [See SF Signal review]
- Superpowers by David J. Schwartz
NOVELLAS
- “The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro (Analog, Mar08)
- “Dark Heaven” by Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, ed. Mike Resnick, SFBC, Jan07) [See SF Signal Review]
- “Dangerous Space” by Kelley Eskridge [PDF] (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, Jun07)
- “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF, Aug08)
- “The Duke in His Castle” by Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, Jun08)
NOVELETTES
- “If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes (F&SF, Feb08)
- “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s, Feb08)
- “Dark Rooms” by Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 07)
- “Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel (F&SF, Jan08, alternate link)
- “Night Wind” by Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08)
- “Baby Doll” by Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, ed. James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Tor, Jun07 )
- “Kaleidoscope” by K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May07)
SHORT STORIES
- “The Button Bin” by Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07)
- “The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking, Jul07) [See SF Signal review.]
- “Trophy Wives” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, DAW Books Jan08)
- “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, Jul08)
- “The Tomb Wife” by Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, Aug07)
- “Don’t Stop” by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, Jun07)
- “Mars: A Traveler’s Guide” by Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, Jan08)
SCRIPTS
- The Dark Knight by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., Jul08)
- WALL-E Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
- “The Shrine” by Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)
ALSO: Andre Norton Award finalists, recognizing superior achievement in science fiction and fantasy writing for young adults.
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt, Oct08)
- Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
- Savvy by Ingrid Law (Dial, May08)
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt and Company, Apr08)
- Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, Sep08)
The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles, California.
See also: Past winners.
Well, it’s a list all right. And it’s got stuff in each category. Good job!
Cory Doctorow’s novel LITTLE BROTHER is freely available online in a variety of formats at http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ .
Thanks for the reminder, Old Miser. Link updated.