Объявлены финалисты на соискание награды Nebula. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) представляет лучшие, по ее оценке, произведения в жанре фантастики. Награды будут вручены во время торжественной церемонии в рамках 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend, которая пройдет с 24-26 апреля в Лос-Анджелесе, Калифорния.
А за кого бы голосовали Вы?
Novels
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor, April ‘08)
Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, September ‘07)
Cauldron, Jack McDevitt (Ace, November ‘07)
Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr, May ‘07)
Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Harper, September ‘07)
Superpowers, David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, June ‘08)
Novellas
«The Spacetime Pool,» Catherine Asaro (Analog, March ‘08)
«Dark Heaven,» Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, ed. Mike Resnick, SFBC, January ‘07)
«Dangerous Space,» Kelley Eskridge, (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, June ‘07)
«The Political Prisoner,» Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF, August ‘08)
«The Duke in His Castle,» Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, June ‘08)
Novelettes
«If Angels Fight,» Richard Bowes (F&SF, February ‘08)
«Dark Rooms,» Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, October/November ‘07)
«Pride and Prometheus,» John Kessel (F&SF, January ‘08)
«Night Wind,» Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, February ‘08)
«Baby Doll,» Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, ed. James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow, Tor, June ‘07 )
«Kaleidoscope,» K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May ‘07)
Short Stories
«The Button Bin,» Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, October ‘07)
«The Dreaming Wind,» Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking, July ‘07)
«Trophy Wives,» Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, DAW Books, January ‘08)
«26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss,» Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, July ‘08)
«The Tomb Wife,» Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, August 07)
«Don’t Stop,» James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, June ‘07)
Scripts
The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer (Warner Brothers, July ‘08)
WALL-E , Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney, June ‘08)
«The Shrine,» Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, August ‘08)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Graceling, Kristin Cashore, (Harcourt, October ‘08)
Lamplighter, D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May ‘08)
Savvy, Ingrid Law (Dial, May ‘08)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt and Company, April ‘08)
Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room), Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, September ‘08)
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