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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   (658 words)

  
 BookSense.com
Since 1965, the Nebulas have been voted on, and presented by, active members of the organization -- mostly writers and professionals associated with the field.
Awards are given for best novel, novella, novelette, and short story.
The awards are presented at a banquet, which this year was held in Los Angeles to coincide with the Los Angeles Festival of Books.
www.booksense.com /readup/awards/nebula2000.jsp   (669 words)

  
 Locus Online News: Nebula Awards Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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)

  
 Awards and Nominations #20
Nebula Award for Best Novella for "Story of Your Life" (Starlight 2, Nov. 1998).
Awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of 1999.
Awarded the Hugo for Best Novelette for "Taklamakan," (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1998).
www.msu.edu /~clarion/newsletter/awards20.html   (1594 words)

  
 Timescape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
It won the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel and was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction fare such as time travel and ecological issues.
The first thread is set in a 1998 ravaged by ecological disasters such as algal blooms and diebacks on the brink of large scale extinctions.
The novel was written in 1980, midway between these two story threads.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ti/Timescape.htm   (206 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.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
www.writenews.com /2002/052402_nebula_awards.htm   (258 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Jack Faust
Michael Swanwick's third novel, Stations of the Tide, won a Nebula Award for best novel of 1991.
Mummer Kiss was a Nebula Award nominee for 1981.
Steven H Silver is one of the founders and judges for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
www.sfsite.com /09b/jack17.htm   (791 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Moon's Shadow by Catherine Asaro
This is one of the best SF first novels in years, a likely candidate for the genre's major awards." And Romantic Times called Catherine Asaro "a formidable new talent.
Now Jai must walk a razor's edge, to seize the power that is his by birthright without succumbing to its dark seduction and wield it for the good of all, and to avert a conflagration that threatens to engulf a thousand worlds.
Catherine Asaro has just won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Quantum Rose, part of her Saga of the Skolian Empire, a sweeping, galaxy-spanning epic which features a unique blend of hard science fiction and heartrending romance.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0765304252-0   (664 words)

  
 Swanwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Michael Swanwick's third novel, Stations of the Tide, was honored with a Nebula Award for best novel of 1991 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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.
The Edge of the World was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 1989 for best short story, by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.
www.andrew.cmu.edu /~roboman/Swanwick.html   (449 words)

  
 Lois McMasters Bujold - SF/Fantasy Books
Her first three novels were bought by Baen Books in October 1985 and in 1987-88, Analog Magazine serialized her fourth novel, Falling Free, which went on to win her first Nebula Award.
“The Mountains of Mourning”: Nebula Award for Best novella of 1989; Hugo Award for best new novella of 1989
Diplomatic Immunity: Nominee for Nebula Award for best novel of 2003
www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art24955.asp   (312 words)

  
 Ringworld +
He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for "Neutron Star," and in 1974 for "The Hole Man." The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol.
His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.
Combining science fiction and fantasy with action, adventure and suspense, this novel is set in Dream Park, where nothing is what it seems and the ultimate fantasy could turn into a nightmare.
www.cswnet.com /~dbruce/modern/lniven.html   (1002 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Larry Niven]
He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for "Neutron Star" and again in 1974 for "The Hole Man." In 1975 the Worldcon voters awarded The Borderland of Sol the Best Novelette Hugo.
His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction; it has been followed by two sequels to date, The Ringworld Engineers and The Ringworld Throne.
Two novels have explored this fertile realm thus far, The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring, both with outstanding cover art from Michael Whelan and set in the same milieu as an earlier novel, A World Out of Time.
www.dragoncon.org /people/nivenl.html   (353 words)

  
 :: SCIFIFANTASYNEWS.COM ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A Deepness in the Sky (1999) is a science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge.
It is a loose prequel to his novel A Fire Upon the Deep, which is set 20,000 years later.
It was nominated for the 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel, won the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel, making it one of the most honored science fiction novels in recent history.
www.scififantasynews.com /bookdetails.aspx?nBookID=445   (895 words)

  
 Arizona Book Festival 2003 Author Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
He has been awarded the John W. Campbell award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Science Fiction Achievement three times and been nominated five additional times, the Nebula award for best novel, and the Locus award for Best Novel and Best Single Author Collection.
Dun Lady's Jess, Doranna's first published fantasy novel, received the 1995 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall award for the best first book in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres; she now has ten novels on the shelves and more on the way.
ROC published one of her novels under the pen name Maggy Thomas: BROKEN TIME, which was nominated for a Phillip K. Dick Award.
www.casfs.org /azbookfestbios.html   (1541 words)

  
 BookPage Fiction Review: Idoru
For anyone reading at the time, Gibson's word "cyberspace" jumped out of his novel to become the term to describe the new telecommunication/information world of the Internet.
Gibson received the Hugo Award for best novel, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Nebula Award for best novel after the publication of Neuromancer and has followed up with three acclaimed novels including Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and most recently 1993's best-selling Virtual Light.
Idoru, like his other novels, is set in some undisclosed time in the near future.
www.bookpage.com /9609bp/fiction/idoru.html   (498 words)

  
 Nebula Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Subsequent notable winners have included Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, William Gibson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda McIntyre, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Theodore Sturgeon, and Connie Willis.
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, and the Service to SFWA Award.
List of the most honored Nebula Award honorees (http://book.awardannals.com/award/nebula/anovel/topbooks)
www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nebula_award   (603 words)

  
 Science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson to deliver Bunyan Lecture: 4/02
With human activity altering the global environment, he says, "we're already terraforming Earth and we don't know how." And increasingly, politics is destiny: "Earth is in the grip of a global capitalist system that's entrenched and that has the future mortgaged.
Green Mars won the 1994 Hugo Award for best novel, and Blue Mars won the 1996 Hugo.
Sci-fi seems the best literary mirror of the world we live in.
www.stanford.edu /group/news/pr/02/bunyan2002advance410.html   (667 words)

  
 Nebula Award for Best Script - SciFi/Fantasy Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In 1974, 1975, and 1977 the award was for "Best Dramatic Presentation".
In 1976 the award was for "Best Dramatic Writing".
In 1977, a special award was given for Star Wars.
www.infoshop.org /sf/index.php/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Script   (461 words)

  
 Archived Newsletter Content
The 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novel went to Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear ($6.99).
Best Novel: Winner to Storm Track by Margaret Maron ($6.99), other finalists were He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters ($7.50, $25.00 for signed hc), The Floating Girl by Sujata Massey ($24.00, $6.99 pb early July), Guns and Roses by Taffy Cannon ($12.95), and Killer Wedding by Jerilyn Farmer ($5.99);
Best Non-Fiction: Winner to 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century by Jim Huang ($12.00), other finalists were The American Regional Mystery by Marvin Lachman, The Complete Christie by Matthew Bunson ($35.00 hc or 18.95 tr pb), They Wrote the Book by Helen Windrath, and Women of Mystery by Martha Dubose ($26.95).
www.unclehugo.com /prod/newsletterSection.shtml?seq=54§ion=news   (667 words)

  
 NEIL GAIMAN
He was the creator and writer of the monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won twelve Eisner Comic Industry Awards and a World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to receive a literary award.
American Gods, his internationally best-selling novel, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award, Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best novel, is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America that is at once eerily familiar and utterly alien.
A young adult novel, Coraline debuted on The New York Times bestseller list the week it was released and was named the best novella by The British Science Fiction Association.
arts.uchicago.edu /gaiman.html   (666 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors: Robinson Kim Stanley
The 1997 Hugo winner for best novel, Kim StanleyRobinson is one of the new breed of Science Fiction authors.
Extractions: Kim Stanley Robinson The 1997 Hugo winner for best novel, Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the "new breed" of Science Fiction authors.
As well, he was nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award for his novel The Wild Shore In 2047, it has been sixty years since America was quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack.
www.988.com /authors/robinson_kim_stanley.php   (2062 words)

  
 Dune
This is the tenth in a series of reviews of those pieces of written science fiction and fantasy which have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Both novels pretty much established their author's reputation, and built a cult of fans who eagerly bought the many sequels (though in both cases the later volumes are generally agreed to be inferior).
Other winners of 1965 Nebulas: "The Saliva Tree", by Brian Aldiss (joint winner, best novella); "He Who Shapes", by Roger Zelazny (joint winner, best novella); "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth", by Roger Zelazny (best novelette); "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", by Harlan Ellison (best short story).
explorers.whyte.com /sf/dune.htm   (1578 words)

  
 Review of Ringworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Nebula Award 1970 (Best Novel), Hugo Award 1971 (Best Novel), Locus Award 1970 (Best Novel), and the Australian Ditmar 1972 (Best Novel)
Louis Wu, a Kzinti diplomat Speaker-to-Animals and the genetically lucky human Teela Brown are recruited by a member of a long-lost race to investigate an immense artifact outside Known Space: the Ringworld.
Perhaps, but it's a very good read and swept the boards in Science Fiction Awards in the early seventies when it was first published.
www.larryniven.org /reviews/58.htm   (207 words)

  
 SFFAudio - Random House and Books on Tape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The missing portions actually improve the novel to a very large degree because the novel is written in the style of a non-fiction report of events.
Once the novel starts in earnest, Rowling doesn’t stray from Harry’s point of view, but she cheats somewhat by using the “pensive,” a magical device that allows Harry to explore the memories of others.
The novel jumps back and forth in Neville's history, between when the plague first hits, killing his wife, to a few months after he the last man alive, to three years later when Neville is resigned to his new life as the last man on Earth.
www.sffaudio.com /RHReviews.html   (8816 words)

  
 Pro Photo Gallery Captions (L-R)
Ashley McConnell began her career with two horror novels, Unearthed (1991), which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and Days of the Dead (1992), then wrote five Quantum Leap tie-ins, becoming perhaps the most popular author in that niche.
Among the best known are The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), Harpist in the Wind (1979; nominated for the Best Novel Hugo Award), and Nebula Best Novel nominees Winter Rose (1996) and The Tower at Stony Wood (2001).
It was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Awards and won the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
members.tripod.com /stromata/id443.htm   (14177 words)

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