Nebula Nominees Announced

[James Nicoll]

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/2017-nebula-award-finalists-announced/

2017 Nebula/Bradbury/Norton Award Finalists

Novel

Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)

Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)

The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit US)

Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)



Novella

River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)

Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)

And Then There Were (N-One), Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)

Barry's Deal, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)

All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)



Novelette

Dirty Old Town, Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)

Weaponized Math, Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)

Wind Will Rove, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's 9-10/17)

A Series of Steaks, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)

A Human Stain, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)

Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)



Short Story

Fandom for Robots, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)

Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)

Utopia, LOL, Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons 6/5/17)

Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)

The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard), Matthew Kressel
(Tor.com 3/15/17)

Carnival Nine, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)


The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Get Out (Written by Jordan Peele)

The Good Place: Michael's Gambit (Written by Michael Schur)

Logan (Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)

The Shape of Water (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Written by Rian Johnson)

Wonder Woman (Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)


The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction
or Fantasy Book

Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic Press)

Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)

The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)

Want, Cindy Pon (Simon Pulse)
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[Carl Fink]

My typical average. I've read one of the stories and seen one of the movies.
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[James Nicoll]

In article <slrnp8qv8k...@panix5.panix.com>,

Carl Fink <ca...@finknetwork.com> wrote:
>My typical average. I've read one of the stories and seen one of the movies.

I have read or seen

The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit US)
Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Logan (Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)

Wonder Woman (Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)

Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic Press)

[D B Davis]

Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
> My typical average. I've read one of the stories and seen one of the movies.

That's one story and one movie more than me. :0) On a more favorable
note, the last installment of _The World of Null-A_ (Van Vogt) as
serialized in _Astounding_ is now being read by me.

Thank you,

--
Don

[Default User]

James Nicoll wrote:

> Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit US)

I read this one!


Brian

[Ahasuerus]

It might be worthwhile to create an SF award matrix or graph to show
how the overlap between different awards (Hugo, Nebula, etc) has
changed over time.

[Quadibloc]

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 9:04:40 PM UTC-7, James Nicoll wrote:

> Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)

And I only knew of her as a writer of articles on Ars Technica!!!

John Savard