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  Nebula Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years.
They are the Author Emeritus award for contributions to the field, the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement, the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting, the Service to SFWA Award, and starting in 2006 the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Nebula Awards is a registered trademark of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nebula_Award   (629 words)

  
 AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information and Photographs -- http://www.awardweb.info
Awarded annually for distinguished SF published as a paperback original in the U.S. To the International Fantasy Awards.
The award is adminstered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney.
Sponsored by Vogel's Bread, it is awarded to a writer under 35 years of age for an original unpublished manuscript of fiction or Australian history or biography.
www.dpsinfo.com /awardweb   (1472 words)

  
 Article: Naming the Stars: The Awards of Science Fiction (part 1 of 2), by Greg Beatty
Each award is given to recognize a specific type of achievement in the field; each is also given in memory of a giant in science fiction.
The award used to include a thousand pounds sterling, but in 2001 the award went up to £2001 (to acknowledge the centrality of Clarke's 2001), and it will increase a pound a year to keep pace with the year.
As the list of awards and deaths indicates, these awards also recognize a sort of passing of the guard, a sense that the early founders are passing on and that their memories should be kept alive.
www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020415/awards.shtml   (3552 words)

  
 BookSense.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since 1965, the Nebulas have been voted on, and presented by, active members of the organization -- mostly writers and professionals associated with the field.
The awards are presented at a banquet, which this year was held in Los Angeles to coincide with the Los Angeles Festival of Books.
Terry Bisson (Nebula winner in the short story category) novelized the story from a script by Robert Gordon and David Howard.
www.booksense.com /readup/awards/nebula2000.jsp   (669 words)

  
 SFWA Nebula Awards
SFWA and Nebula Awards are registered trademarks of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
The Nebula Awards are administered, voted and presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) to acknowledge excellence in science fiction writing.
The 2001 Nebulas were awarded on Saturday, April 27, 2002 in Kansas City, MO. Keith Stokes Photos from the 2001 Nebulas.
dpsinfo.com /awardweb/nebulas   (1286 words)

  
 Locus Online News: Nebula Awards Winners
Of Nebula Award winners, only Elizabeth Moon was present to accept her award; Silverberg, Crispin, and Capobianco were also present to accept their awards.
Capobianco admitted suggesting the initiation of this award back in '95, never imagining that he might one day be a recipient; Crispin thanked Victoria Strauss and Charles Petit for their help with the SFWA Writer Beware website.
Since their awards were not yet ready, a cake was presented in their stead, which was subsequently served in the hospitality suite later that evening.
www.locusmag.com /2004/News/04_NebulaWinners.html   (960 words)

  
 Review of Nebula Award Stories Eight
He has selected five Nebula Award runners-up to go along with the three winners to make this one of the most star-studded anthologies Ever.
The job of editing the annual “Nebula Award Stories” anthology belonged to the President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the contents consist of the nominees for the short fiction awards.
(The Nebulas are the “professional” equivalent of the Hugo.
homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book147.html   (394 words)

  
 Beadtime Stories home page of Elizabeth Ann Scarborough juan.htm
In a reception prior to the Nebula Awards Banquet, Grand Master Anne was given a cake with a sugar photocopy of the cover of her first Pern novel.
Centerpieces for the Nebula Awards Banquet featured stuffed dragons nesting in fake flowers inside flower pots, in honor of Grand Master Anne McCaffrey's famous dragons After the banquet, the dragons were auctioned off to raise money for the SFWA medical fund.
From L to R behind are other Nebulas and either the winners or those accepting on their behalf.
www.olympus.net /personal/scarboro/images/Books/neb.htm   (463 words)

  
 Nebula Award Winners - sffworld.com
The Nebula awards to me have never really made great choices, to me they've passed quite a few times over the more deserving, just like all awards.
Nebulas: Voted for by members of SFFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America).
Like all awards, YMMV but they serve as a good signpost of the field in general and are usually a good resource.
www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5355   (539 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners
The PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States.
The award was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and is affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization.
Half of the cash award is given to the author of the winning fiction title, and half is given to the author of the winning nonfiction title.
www.powells.com /prizes/prizes.html   (1151 words)

  
 Nebula Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2001 Nebula Awards (given in 2002) were recently announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
The awards were announced at the SFWA's annual awards banquet at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City.
Other winners included Jack Williamson, an SFWA Grand Master, who won a Nebula in the novella category for his story "The Ultimate Earth." In the novelette category, the winner was Kelly Link, for her story "Louise's Ghost".
www.writenews.com /2002/052402_nebula_awards.htm   (258 words)

  
 Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Press Release: Nebula Win (1996)
The Nebula Award was presented to Sawyer at a banquet aboard the HMS Queen Mary off Long Beach, California, on Saturday, April 27, 1996.
The Nebulas are voted on and presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which has 1,100 members in 23 countries.
Previous Nebula Award winners include such SF classics as Frank Herbert's Dune, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, and Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves.
www.sfwriter.com /prnewi95.htm   (359 words)

  
 Nebula Award Winners - Jacksonville Public Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Nebula Award is a writing award given in several categories by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
The awards are given by authors to authors, and many times the winners of the Nebula award also won the Hugo Award, an award given by fans.
Winners are voted on by the SFWA and announced at its Nebula Awards Weekend, which occurs in late April or early May of each year.
jpl.coj.net /library/awards/nebula.html   (378 words)

  
 Awards and Nominations #20
Nebula Award for Best Novel for Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press, 11/98; Warner Books, 1/00).
Received an award for his Service to SFWA Award with Pamela Sargent at the 2000 Nebula Banquet.
Won the 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Mars is No Place for Children" (SF Age, May 1999).
www.msu.edu /~clarion/newsletter/awards20.html   (1594 words)

  
 The SF Site: Nebula Award Nominees
The awards are given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year's award.
The Grand Master Award is given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction or fantasy or both.
Nominations for the Grand Master Nebula Award are made by the president of SFWA and awarded after approval of a majority of the SFWA officers.
www.sfsite.com /02b/neb170.htm   (432 words)

  
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Nebula finalist 1965 Thomas M. Disch: "The Genocides" Nebula finalist 1965 G. Edmonson: "The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream" Nebula finalist 1965 Frank Herbert: "Dune" (Philadelphia: Chilton) {film hotlink to be done} The breaktrhough od Space Opera into major Literature.
Nebula Award (tied for 1st place) Nominee for 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
It presumes with a straight face that Astrology is true, in the sense that there are twelve zodaical zones in the galaxy that affect human life, and pursues this notion with gosh-wow pseudo-hard-SF imagination involving astronomy and evolutionary biology, with transcendent zeal.
virtual.clemson.edu /groups/dial/sfclass/sf60all.doc   (2081 words)

  
 This Year's Nebula Award Nominees
Like the Hugos the Nebulas are awarded annually but unlike the Hugos, an item is eligible for two years, not one.
The Nebula Award itself is a block of plastic or glass with a picture of a nebula embedded in it.
In 1965 the first Nebula for a novel was awarded to Frank Herbert for some story he wrote about some desert planet.
www.computercrowsnest.com /features/arc/2005/nz7985.php   (658 words)

  
 Curious Cat Hugo and Nebula Award Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The World Science Fiction Association presents the Hugo Awards and the Science Fiction Writers of America present the Nebula Awards.
As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth.
1992 Hugo Award, Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.
www.curiouscat.com /osc/hugo.cfm   (1389 words)

  
 The John W. Campbell Award
The Nebula Awards are voted by some hundred of the nearly one thousand members of the Science Fiction Writers of America and presented at the annual Nebula Award meeting usually held late in April.
The Campbell Award is the only award of the three selected by a committee small enough to discuss among its members the novels published during the year and to arrive at a consensus choice.
In recent years the Campbell Award has been presented during the Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas as the focal point of a weekend of discussions about the writing, illustration, publishing, teaching, and criticism of science fiction.
www.ku.edu /~sfcenter/campbell.htm   (676 words)

  
 Locus Online: News Log, April 2003, p5
The Nebula Awards are voted by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
The final ballot for this year's awards was posted in February.
The Philip K. Dick Award is given annually to the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time in the US.
www.locusmag.com /2003/News/News04Log5.html   (674 words)

  
 The Unofficial SFWA Awardball Statistical Abstract and Trading Card Album
But there's no getting around the fact that the history of the Nebula Awards is part of the history of our organization, and of three decades of our literature.
The Nebulas document changing tastes and growing pains, the passing of scepters and the passing of giants.
The expanded Nebula ballot in 1965 had 70 nominees (an average of more than ten per category); the 1975 ballot had a total of 46, including eighteen Novel nominees.
www.sff.net /people/K-Mac/nebula.htm   (2115 words)

  
 Nebula Award Stories 2
Nebula Award Stories 2 - edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison.
The play is that of Gods, and they wreak death and destruction upon the planet.
One alien comes close to a human, and struggles to retain her identity.
www.bestsf.net /reviews/nebula2.html   (770 words)

  
 Swanwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was also a nominee for the Hugo Award, as was his novella, The Griffon's Egg, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in Britain.
Mummer Kiss was a Nebula Award finalist for 1981 and was voted best science fiction novelet of the year in the Science Fiction Chronicle poll.
Two stories in 1985 were Nebula Award finalists: The Gods of Mars, co-written with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, and Dogfight, co-written with William Gibson (also nominated for a Hugo Award).
www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/roboman/Swanwick.html   (449 words)

  
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Winner, 1971 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel 1971 William Hjortsberg: "Gray Matters" (New TYork: Simon & Schuster) Human brains can be implanted in new bodies, promising both immortality and total mind-control, except for those neurotics whose personalities survive brain washing.
The Einsteinian inventor of a puzzling faster-than-light communicator (the "ansible", an anagram of "lesbian"), Shevek is caught between two cultures, one a dictatorial urban consumer pseudo-paradise (America squared), and one a Taoist libertarian pseudo-impovershed planet of exile (Australia through the looking-glass).
Not as goofy as this sounds, this novel plumbs the depths of confusion and despair, and also had me rolling on the floor with laughter, as he reworks what must have been verbatim conversations between stoned houseguests in his own livingroom.
virtual.clemson.edu /groups/dial/sfclass/sf70all.doc   (6919 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novellette, Short Story, and Script.
Lou Arrendale is a member of that lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the awards of medical science.
Part of a small group of high-functioning autistic adults, he has a steady job with a pharmaceutical company, a car, friends, and a passion for fencing.
www.powells.com /prizes/nebula.html   (699 words)

  
 Clearance sale on Nebula Award Stories: 10
This is a short prequel to (or outtake from) THE DISPOSSESSED, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel of 1974.
Setting this aside, and treating "Born With the Dead" as alternate-history, or science-fantasy, the story fails in that no other detail of human life has been changed by this revolutionary technology.
All of these stories are well-written, as one might expect for a writers' award anthology edited by a writing teacher.
www.redtagcellar.com /product/1/9997376560/books/Nebula-Award-Stories:-10.html   (491 words)

  
 The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Nebula Awards
They were created in the mid-1960s, by the newly formed Science Fiction Writers of America, as the basis for annual anthologies that would contribute to the income of the organization.
The Nebulas' 12-month eligibility period has the effect of delaying recognition of many works until nearly 2 years after publication, and throws Nebula results out of synch with other awards (Hugo, Locus) voted in a given calendar year.
Though the Nebula Awards ostensibly honor works published in the US, they rarely honor non-US writers (Ballard, Priest, Egan, et al), even those frequently published in the US.
www.locusmag.com /SFAwards/Db/Nebula.html   (296 words)

  
 Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Nebula Award
Thornhill, Ontario, writer Robert J. Sawyer won the 1995 Nebula Award — the "Academy Award" of Science Fiction — for Best Novel of the Year.
The Nebula Award was presented to Sawyer at a banquet aboard the H.M.S. Queen Mary moored off Long Beach, California, on Saturday, April 27, 1996.
The Nebulas are voted on and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which has 1,100 members in 23 countries.
www.sfwriter.com /nebula.htm   (190 words)

  
 Tomfolio.com: Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Nebula Award
Bishop, Michael editor NEBULA AWARDS 23 Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1987 Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York NY 1989.
This highly praised first book, a science fiction mystery featuring "Philip K. Dick," won the Crawford Award for best fantasy novel and the Locus Award for best first novel of the year, and was a 1994 Nebula Finalist for Best Novel.
Basis for the film starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich, the novel won the 1990 Nebula Award.
www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=3826   (1815 words)

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