[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.