This year's Nebula Award nominees have been announced. Congratulations to everyone who was nominated. In particular I want to single out my peeps for their achievements:

papersky for her magnificent novel, Among Others
maryrobinette for her novella, "Kiss Me Twice"
kijjohnson for her novella, "The Man Who Bridged the Mist ( Read more... )

So I went back to the SFWA community and asked about the nomination of the New Voyages episode. Here are the responses I got.

From current president michaelcapoThe eligibility of "Worlds Enough and Time" is under review by the ( Read more... )

First, congratulations to everyone on the ballot. In particular, my best wishes go out to davidlevine, kijjohnson and Joe Haldeman; I'll be rooting for you from the sidelines, where we associate members sit with popcorn ( Read more... )

I haven't been to a Nebula Awards banquet in more than ten years and, frankly, I haven't missed it. After attending several in a row, I began to feel as though I was attending an overblown corporate banquet where people spoke too long and where the food rarely rose above the merely edible. For years, the running joke about the Nebulas was the ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of writing a lengthy Nebula report which will be lj-cut just as my Norwescon report was. I hope to post the complete report sometime this evening, including a link to Doug Herring's selection of photos of the event ( Read more... )

Too tired and dehydrated to be articulate about the weekend at the moment, but will post more anon. In short, if you follow genreneep, then you know that the Nebula Awards are being held in Seattle this weekend, and I'm Nebula-immersed. Star-studded reports will follow (because, really, I'm part gossip columnist at heart), but right now what I want most of ( Read more... )

Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer has some pretty thorough coverage of the event:

Nebula Awards showcase the Northwest's prominence in science fiction

A galaxy of writers at the Westin

Northwest science fiction writers

Lately, I've been waking up with creative ideas. This morning I woke up with a couple of decisions firmly made. It's not as if I go to sleep thinking "This is what I'll work on tonight." Lately, however, I might as well be doing that. Things (with a capital "T") seem to be happening ( Read more... )

In which our heroine realizes her first mistakeHer first mistake was not reading the Nebula web site carefully enough. In order to go to the banquet, she must buy the Compleat Ticket, costing $100.00 US. That's a little too steep for our heroine at the moment. Yes, yes, the inherent irony of her spending far too much money on DVDs of a 20-year-old ( Read more... )

It's how I'm feeling about attending the Nebula Awards here in Seattle. It's been years since I attended, and what I remember of the several I attended as an editor at Bantam was that at worst it felt like a glorified corporate banquet; at best it felt like a really good dinner with fine friends and a little too much talking at the podium. It's ( Read more... )