The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Of America just announced the Nebula Awards finalists, and there are a couple of surprising omissions.
I’m kind of surprised Neal Stephenson didn’t get a nod in the novel category, not to mention Iain Banks’ Matter. But I’m thrilled for Kelley Eskridge getting nominated in the novella category. Also, the more I ponder, the more surprised I am that Hunger Games didn’t make it in the young-adult category.
Novels
Little Brother – Cory Doctorow (Tor, Apr08)
Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, Sep07)
Cauldron – Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov07)
Brasyl – Ian McDonald (Pyr, May07)
Making Money – Terry Pratchett (Harper, Sep07)
Superpowers – David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, Jun08)
Novellas
“The Spacetime Pool” – Catherine Asaro (Analog, Mar08)
“Dark Heaven” – Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jan07)
“Dangerous Space” – Kelley Eskridge (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, Jun07)
“The Political Prisoner” – Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF, Aug08)
“The Duke in His Castle” – Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, Jun08)
Novelettes
“If Angels Fight” – Richard Bowes (F&SF, Feb08)
“Dark Rooms” – Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 07)
“Pride and Prometheus” – John Kessel (F&SF, Jan08)
“Night Wind” – Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08)
“Baby Doll” – Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )
“Kaleidoscope” – K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May07)
Short Stories
“The Button Bin” – Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07)
“The Dreaming Wind” – Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking, Jul07)
“Trophy Wives” – Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” – Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, Jul08)
“The Tomb Wife” – Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, Aug07)
“Don’t Stop” – James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, Jun07)
Scripts
The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan; Christopher Nolan, Christopher, 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” – Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)
Andre Norton Award For Young Adult Fiction
Graceling – Kristin Cashore (Harcourt, Oct08)
Lamplighter – D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
Savvy – Ingrid Law (Dial, May08)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox – 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) – Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, Sep08)
