Nebula Wards Shortlist 2008

[iansales]

Novels

• Odyssey, Jack McDevitt, (Ace, Nov06)
• The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman, (Ace, Aug07)
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon, (HarperCollins, May07)
• The New Moon’s Arms, Nalo Hopkinson, (Warner Books, Feb07)
• Ragamuffin Tobias Buckell, (Tor, Jun07)

Novellas

• “Kiosk”, Bruce Sterling, (F&SF, Jan07)
• “Memorare”, Gene Wolfe, (F&SF, Apr07)
• “Awakening”, Judith Berman, (Black Gate 10, Spr07)
• “Stars Seen Through Stone”, Lucius Shepard, (F&SF, Jul07)
• “The Helper and His Hero”, Matt Hughes, (F&SF, Feb07 & Mar07)
• “Fountain of Age”, Nancy Kress, (Asimov’s, Jul07)

Novelettes

• “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche”, Delia Sherman, (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)
• “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter”, Geoff Ryman, (F&SF, Nov06)
• “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change”, Kij Johnson, (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)
• “Safeguard”, Nancy Kress, (Asimov’s, Jan07)
• “The Children’s Crusade”, Robin Wayne Bailey, (Heroes in Training, Martin H. Greenberg and Jim C. Hines, Ed., DAW, Sep07)
• “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, Ted Chiang, (F&SF, Sep07)
• “Child, Maiden, Mother, Crone”, Terry Bramlett, (Jim Baen’s Universe 7, June 2007)

Short Stories

• “Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse”, Andy Duncan, (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)
• “Titanium Mike Saves the Day”, David D Levine, (F&SF, Apr07)
• “Captive Girl”, Jennifer Pelland, (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct06 (Fall06 issue — #2))
• “Always”, Karen Joy Fowler, (Asimov’s, May07 (Apr/May07 issue))
• “Pride”, Mary Turzillo, (Fast Forward 1, Pyr, February 2007)
• “The Story of Love”, Vera Nazarian, (Salt of the Air, Prime Books, Sep06)

Scripts

• Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron & Timothy J Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby, (Universal Studios, Dec06)
• The Prestige, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, (Newmarket Films, Oct06 (Oct 20, 2006 — based on the novel by Christopher Priest))
• Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, (Time/Warner, Jan07)
• V for Vendetta, Larry & Andy Wachowski, (Warner Films, Mar06 (released 3/17/2006 — Written by the Wachowski Brothers, based on the graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd and published by Vertigo/DC Comics))
• “World Enough and Time”, Marc Scott Zicree, and Michael Reeves, (Star Trek: New Voyages, Aug07 (Aired 8/23/07))
• “Blink”, Steven Moffat, (Doctor Who, BBC/The Sci-Fi Channel, Sep07 (Aired on SciFi Channel 14Sep07))

Andre Norton Award

• The True Meaning of Smek Day, Adam Rex, (Hyperion, Oct07)
• The Lion Hunter, Elizabeth Wein, (Viking Juvenile, Jun07 (The Mark of Solomon, Book 1))
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling, (Scholastic Press, Jul07)
• The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, (Jump At The Sun, Sep07)
• Into the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst, (Penguin Razorbill, Jun07)
• Vintage: A Ghost Story, Steve Berman, (Haworth Positronic Press, Mar07)
• Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog, Ysabeau S Wilce, (Harcourt, Jan07)

Compare and contrast with last year's... McDevitt again in novels, after winning last year. And being nominated the year before.

Does anyone still take any notice of the Nebulas?

(edit: gah. Awards, not wards...)

[Werthead]

Well, with Black Man and Brasyl both missing from the list, it's presumably not meant to be taken very seriously? Although having said that, I can never work the Nebula's nomination period. It seems to be fairly confusing, so I guess both books may have scraped out after the nomination period ended.

And no, people really don't pay the Nebulas much attention any more. Truth be told, the Hugos aren't really that well-respected any more, but at least they are voted on by the people (albeit for a price) and there are hopes that they can change with the times to become more relevant, whilst the Nebulas retain the reputation of being fairly elitist and out of touch with the general opinions of SF&F readers.

[Connavar]

Nebula i agree fully is elitist and out of touch with SF&F readers.

The nebula nomination period is also uncessasary complicated and make it even hard to care for a award that awards and nominates books older than one year.

Lame that 2006 books can win in 2008.