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Nebula Award Nominees Online 67

Posted by michael from the who-needs-screeners dept.
Embedded Geek writes "The SFWA has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2003 Nebula awards. As has become standard over the past few years, the various magazines with short fiction nominees have placed the stories online to order to increase their exposure to voters (here and here for example). This year, the SFWA has helpfully linked all the online versions (as well as Amazon links for the novels and movies) on their ballot page. Those that aren't directly posted are available for free PDA download at fictionwise. Worth checking out, even if you aren't going to the banquet."
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  • no mention of sco's law suit (Score:5, Funny)

    by stonebeat.org ( 562495 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @09:48PM (#8209196) Homepage
    they didn't mention sco's law suit in the science fiction section. must not be a good repository. ;)

  • SWEET! 0wnz0red is up for best novellette... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Behrooz ( 302401 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @09:50PM (#8209214)
    Sweet... 0wnz0r3d [salon.com] is up for best novelette.

    Highly cool, Cory Doctorow is bloody brilliant. If you haven't read 0wnz0red yet, go do it [salon.com].
    • *Bloody brilliant*? It's like early crap Bruce Sterling (if you thought Involution Ocean had a coherent plot, you're free to disagree), written by a script kiddie whose entire interaction with the entire world is via Slashdot.

    • I wish it was a parody (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      A tech writer. Why not just break his goddamned fingers and poke his eyes out? Never write another line of code, never make the machine buck and hum and make his will real in the abstract beauty of silicon? Tech writers were coders' janitors, documenting the plainly self-evident logic of APIs and code-structures, niggling over punctuation and grammar and frigging stylebooks, like any of it mattered -- human beings could parse English, even if it wasn't well-formed, even if you had a comma-splice or a dangli

  • Phew. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Dukael_Mikakis ( 686324 ) <andrewfoersterNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday February 06, 2004 @09:50PM (#8209215)
    Forget the Oscars, Peter Jackson must be sighing relief that he got a Nebula "Premilinary Nomination".

  • Where's Lord of the Rings? (Score:3, Funny)

    by -kertrats- ( 718219 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @09:51PM (#8209222) Journal
    I'm insulted that LOTR didnt get a nod this year. That book was a great work of fiction. I know it came out two years ago with Fellowship, but it didnt win that year either [wasnt even nominated! as if the thing had come out 46 years ago!]. Truely insulting to the fantasy genre.

  • Connie Willis (Score:5, Informative)

    by Beolach ( 518512 ) <beolach AT juno DOT com> on Friday February 06, 2004 @10:03PM (#8209278) Homepage Journal
    Connie Willis [google.com] is one of my favorite SciFi authors. IIRC she has won more Nebula awards than any other author. Or maybe it was some other award. Anyway, she's really good. Excellent short stories in Impossible Things [amazon.com] , many of which won the Nebula award, as did Doomsday Book [amazon.com] . She has several other [amazon.com] excellent SciFi books. Highly recommended.

    • Re:Connie Willis (Score:3, Informative)

      by scotch ( 102596 )
      I agree, her stuff is really engaging, even for non-science-fiction fans. The latest book of hers I read, Passage, while basically a good story and very touching, was way to long for the material. Willis communicates urgency, frustration, and dispair better than just about anyone, but it just went on a little too long in Passage.

    • To Say Nothing Of The Dog (Score:4, Insightful)

      by devphil ( 51341 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @11:56PM (#8209833) Homepage


      is absolutely incredible. Sci-fi, comedy, mystery, even a touch of romance thrown in there just to round things out. Mostly comedy, though. Very well written.

      • quite so, great book.

        All the way through, tho, I kept feeling like it was referring to or even fully parodying some famous piece of English lit. I'd never heard of, and so I was missing helf the jokes.

        Is this so ? Does anyone know the original and is it worth reading ?

        cheers,
        Shane

    • Re:Connie Willis (Score:5, Informative)

      by tbmaddux ( 145207 ) * on Saturday February 07, 2004 @12:50AM (#8210025) Homepage Journal
      IIRC she has won more Nebula awards than any other author. Or maybe it was some other award.
      Past winners are here [sfwa.org] for your reference. Connie Willis has won 6: best novellette for "Fire Watch" and best short story for "A Letter from the Clearys" in 1983. She won best novella for "The Last of the Winnebagos" in 1988 and best novellette for "At the Rialto" the following year. In 1992 she won best novel for "Doomsday Book," and best short story for "Even the Queen." It's worth pointing out at this point that both of those also won their respective Hugo awards. [dpsinfo.com]

      Other big winners of Nebula awards are Ursula K. Leguin (with 5, with 3 for best novel), Greg Bear (with 5, 2 for best novel), Joe Haldeman (with 4, 2 for best novel), Samuel R. Delany (with 4, 2 for best novel).

  • Interesting film script options (Score:4, Funny)

    by Coryoth ( 254751 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @10:06PM (#8209294) Homepage Journal
    I thought the "Scripts" section at the end was rather interesting. Nominees included:

    - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    - Spirited Away

    So, the question is - which of those is the most worthy?

    Hmm, I wonder if we can have an anime fans vs. Tolkien fans flamewar? That might be fun :-)

    Jedidiah
    • In terms of script; Spirited Away. TTT made a far better book than movie.

      • Re:Interesting film script options (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Coryoth ( 254751 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @10:41PM (#8209469) Homepage Journal
        In general I agree. I appreciate the difficulties of adapting a book like LoTR to screen, but in general, as a raw script, I feel Spirited Away was probably superior. On screen, LoTR was just more grand and breathtaking.

        But what are you doing giving sensible reasoned replies? This is still Slashdot isn't it?

        Jedidiah.
        • If they're judging screenplays, it's one thing. A completed film is something else entirely.

          Not only do you have the script, but you also have the work of the (voice) actors, the editors ( a massive undertaking, and quite undervalued my most people that have never done it), the soundtrack composer, the director (definately a biggie, particularly when considering an auteur director), and a miriad of othre factors thrown in.

          Think of what any one of Quentin Tarantino's films would be like if he hadn't direct
    • Hmm, I wonder if we can have an anime fans vs. Tolkien fans flamewar? That might be fun :-)

      aw, jeez. forget that kid stuff. what I want to know is what happened to the the Uranus Project nomination [space.com] ????

    • - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

      - Spirited Away

      So, the question is - which of those is the most worthy?
      Spirited Away.

      I hope that clarified it for you. ;)
    • Hmm, I wonder if we can have an anime fans vs. Tolkien fans flamewar? That might be fun :-)

      If Tolkien was remade as anime, every character would be 14 years old, speak in an annoying high-pitched voice, and would brood a lot. We would get a lot of slow motion shots for no apparent reason. Gollum won't be the only one with big eyes, nooo, every single freakin' character would have 'em. And to top it off, the ending would make no sense, but it would be be flashy and bright and every character would smile a

  • Ack...no Ilium? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Visceral Monkey ( 583103 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @10:10PM (#8209312)
    Where's Ilium by Simmons?
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0 380978938/ qid=1076123360/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-7360652-94254 22

    Lets hope it at least gets nominated for a Hugo. Best book I've read in a long time.

    On the other hand, I had no Idea that Resnick did a sequel to Santiago. Time to pick it up.
    • Perhaps others agreed with my view, that it was rather lame book. Essentially it was just the illiade with a few bits and bobs through in. Boy was i disappointed after Hyperion.

  • Fictionwise link is worthless (Score:3, Informative)

    by fucksl4shd0t ( 630000 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @10:19PM (#8209360) Homepage Journal

    I tried the fictionwise link looking for the free downloads, but there weren't any. What a worthless link. I registered even, and tried adding the book to my shopping cart. Bastards.

    Or did I miss something? :)

  • Oryx and Crake (Score:3, Interesting)

    by alphaseven ( 540122 ) on Friday February 06, 2004 @10:53PM (#8209519)
    I'm surprised Oryx and Crake didn't make the list, Atwood had been nominated for the Nebula before and the novel did make the Booker shortlist. One of my favourite novels of last year.

    Slashdot | Oryx and Crake [slashdot.org]

    • Atwood isn't on the list because she believes that science is dangerous and that science is dangerous knowledge and that scientists are evil men (redundant really) intent on destroying the world to satisfy their maniac fantasies. Her books are thinly veiled rants against her idea of the humanity's evils (men, capitalism, nuclear power, scientific preogress, etc...).

  • Tape delay? (Score:4, Funny)

    by LostCluster ( 625375 ) * on Friday February 06, 2004 @11:20PM (#8209639)
    Just how long will the Nebula Awards broadcast be delayed by the network just to make sure nothing untoward gets broadcast?
  • Seems as if the ballot has been taken off line due to /. or some other reason, but here is the cache.

    ballot [66.102.7.104]
  • 404 error - Object Not found. That book changed my life

  • Where's Quicksilver? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by zoward ( 188110 ) * <email.me.at.zoward.at.gmail.com> on Saturday February 07, 2004 @05:29AM (#8210753) Homepage
    I was a little surprised not to see Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver on the list, a book I've heard many people (including one of the authors up for a Nebula in the Novel category) describe as a shoe-in for both the Hugo and Nebula. Did it not qualify due to time contraints or something?
    • Maybe, because it sucked?

      Maybe, because it's not Sci-Fi?

      Sorry, I don't really mean to be starting a flamewar, I just couldn't resist griping.

      I'm angry and bitter about Quicksilver. I loved Cryptnomicon and his earlier books, but I gave up on Quicksilver after 250 boring pages.

  • I see that Fallen Host by Lyda Morehouse [mninter.net] is on the novel nomination list. This is great! I actually know Lyda, and her next book looks like it will be great! If you haven't read her LINK series, you need to start. They're very much like Gibson and Stevenson, but with an interesting twist. I expect most geeks who like Gibson and Stevenson novels will love the LINK series.

    Ironically, Fallen Host is no longer being printed by the publisher. I guess due to declining sales, even though it's a Nebula Awar

    • I have to agree with you - Fallen Host was one of the best and most original books to come out this year, and I can't wait for Lyda Morehouse to write more.

      She's gotten on my short-list of authors I run out to buy day-of-release books for, and preferrably read then too.

      I'll have to pass around my copies to a few more people, and hope she gets another print-run soon.

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