2003 Nebula Awards

seattlenerd writes "The 2003 Nebula Awards were awarded late Saturday night in Seattle (for the first time ever) by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Winners: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford, "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler (the previous two both published on the SCI FICTION site), and the script for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Noteworthy were comments made by GrandMaster honoree Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison, who introduced Silverberg, along with guest speaker Rick Rashid of Microsoft Research. To say nothing of Cory Doctorow's acceptance speech he didn't get to make, but has made available for "alternate historians."" I was at Penguicon this weekend, along with Neil Gaiman - congrats to him on the win, and to all the others.

mmm....Ice Cream

[kronak]

The Empire of Ice Cream....I want to live there

Anyone else read that as 'Nebulon'?

[qedigital]

Anyone else read that as the "Nebulon" Awards? As in "get out of here Nebulon, no one likes your style." -- S.B.

did they?

[eclectus]

Did the writer of 'Gigli' get anything?

Speed of Dark is about an autistic social failure

[Slashdot Hivemind]

With amazing computer skills. I expect it will go down well with Slashdot readers

Tee hee.

[gregduffy]

Fanfiction conglomeration heaven - What I Didn't See was the Empire of Ice Cream because The Speed of Dark was too great.

Re:did they?

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed, I believe they won a special invite for a trip of a lifetime to the next Nebula.

Re:You know.

[outrage98]

There's something sort of arrogant about publishing your acceptance speech when you didn't even win.

I haven't written my book yet, but I've just about finished my acceptance speech.

Elizabeth Moon wrote a good book?

[Anonymous Coward]

Tomorrow, Microsoft announces support for Open Source.

For the first time ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

The 2003 Nebula Awards were awarded late Saturday night in Seattle (for the first time ever) by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

When and by whom are the 2003 Nebula Awards likely to be awarded next?

Re:You know.

[Kiryat Malachi]

I'd love to win a Grammy for my music, but I'm not expecting to, so I sure as hell wouldn't write and publish an acceptance speech.

Maybe arrogant wasn't quite the right word, but the man, after NOT winning an award, went right ahead and published the "This is what I would have said if I'd won that award".

No, I'd say arrogant is the right word.

What was Ellison doing there?

[jet_silver]

He's supposed to be working on "Again: Dangerous Visions"; he hasn't got time for this stuff.

Re:Neverwhere

[Anonymous Coward]

Lord of the Rings is good, but it has a strong Elvish bent to it that won't necessarily carry over everywhere... ;)

Re:did they?

[Ride-My-Rocket]

Did the writer of 'Gigli' get anything?

A swift kick to the nuts, in the hopes that inspiration of the type that spawned Gigli will not be passed on through the bloodline.