Nebula Report: Novelettes Nov 08

Guest Blog by SFWA on November 25 2008

The following is a list of works recommended for the Nebula Awards, data current within the last available month.
NOTE: This is not the Preliminary Ballot. This is a list of all works in the applicable category that have received at least one nomination from an Active SFWA voting member and are currently still eligible. Please refer to the Rules section for a more detailed explanation.

Anderson, M. T.: The Gray Boy’s Work (The Restless Dead, Deborah Noyes, Ed., Jul07)

Arsenieva, Elena: A Birch Tree, White Fox (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Arsenieva, Elena: Some Earthlings’ Adventures on Outrerria (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07)

Bacigalupi, Paolo: Pump Six (F&SF, Sep08 )

Barnes, John: An Ocean Is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away (Jim Baen’s Universe, Aug07)

Barrett, Neal, Jr.: Radio Station St. Jack (Asimov’s, Aug08)

Barron, Laird: The Forest (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Barton, William: In the Age of the Quiet Sun (Asimov’s, Sep08)

Baxter, Stephen: The Ice War (Asimov’s, Sep08)

Bear, Elizabeth: Cryptic Coloration (Jim Baen’s Universe, Jun07)

Bear, Elizabeth: Shoggoths in Bloom (Asimov’s, Mar08)

Beaulieu, Bradley P.: Lest Our Passage Be Forgotten (Realms of Fantasy, Jun08)

Berman, Steve: Wagers of Gold Mountain (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Bernhard, Ribbeck: A Blue and Cloudless Sky (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Bishop, Michael: Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage (Asimov’s, Jul08)

Black, Holly: Paper Cuts Scissors (Realms of Fantasy, Oct07, Category?)

Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn: Seraphim (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jan08)

Bowes, Richard: If Angels Fight (F&SF, Feb08)

Burridge, John: Mask Glass Magic (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)

Cadigan, Pat: Nothing Personal (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jun07?)

Castle, Sarah K.: Kukulcan (Analog, Dec07)

Cheny, J. Kathleen: Touching the Dead (Jim Baen’s Universe, Jun07)

Cowdrey, Albert E.: Poison Victory (F&SF, Jul08)

D’Ammassa, Don: The Natural World (Analog, Feb08 )

de Bodard, Aliette: Obsidian Shards (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)

DeLancey, Craig: Amor Vincit Omnia (Analog, Apr08)

DiFilippo, Paul: Murder in Geektopia (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Doctorow, Cory: The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away (Tor.com, Aug08?)

Dulski, Thomas R.: Guaranteed Not To Turn Pink in the Can (Analog, Apr08)

Durbin, Frederic S.: The Bone Man (F&SF, Dec07)

Egan, Greg: Glory (The New Space Opera, Eos, Jun07)

Egan, Greg: Lost Continent (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

Emshwiller, Carol: Master of the Road to Nowhere (Asimov’s, Mar08)

Evangelisti, Valerio: Sepultura (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 , Category?)

Finch, Sheila: First Was the Word (F&SF, Jun07)

Flynn, Michael F. : Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo (Analog, Aug07 )

Flynn, Michael F. : Sand and Iron (Analog, Aug08 )

Frederick, Carl: The Exoanthropic Principle (Analog, Aug08 )

Friesner, Esther M.: At These Prices (F&SF, Aug07)

Gardner, James Alan: The Ray-Gun: A Love Story (Asimov’s, Feb08)

Goldman, David W.: The Last Man’s First Year on Earth (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jan08)

Goldstein, Lisa: Dark Rooms (Asimov’s, Nov07 )

Goonan, Kathleen Ann: Memory Dog (Asimov’s, May08 )

Goonan, Kathleen Ann: Sundiver Day (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

Goonan, Kathleen Ann: The Bridge (Asimov’s, Aug07)

Goulart, Ron: Conversations with my knees (Analog, Feb08 )

Gunn, Eileen: Up the Fire Road (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)

Hemry, John G.: These Are the Times (Analog, Nov07)

Henderson, Samantha: The Mermaids’ Tea Party (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Jul08)

Hendrix, Howard V.: Palimpsest (Analog, Sep07)

Hirshberg, Glen: The Janus Tree (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Huberath, Marek S.: ’Yoo Retoont, Sneogg, Ay Noo.’ (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Hughes, Matt: Sweet Trap (F&SF, Jun07)

Irvine, Alexander C.: Mystery Hill (F&SF, Jan08)

Irvine, Alexander C.: Wizard’s Six (F&SF, Jun07)

Jablokov, Alexander: The Boarder (F&SF, Mar08)

Jablokov, Alexander: Wrong Number (F&SF, Sep07)

Johnson, C.W.: Icarus Beach (Analog, Dec07)

Kaswell, Damon: Our Last Words (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)

Kessel, John: Pride and Prometheus (F&SF, Jan08)

Kosmatka, Ted: Divining Light (Asimov’s, Aug08)

Kosmatka, Ted: The Prophet of Flores (Asimov’s, Sep07)

Kotowych, Stephen: Saturn in G Minor (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)

Kress, Nancy: Call Back Yesterday (Asimov’s, Jun08)

Kress, Nancy: Laws of Survival (Jim Baen’s Universe, Dec07)

Laidlaw, Marc: Childrun (F&SF, Aug08)

Lalumier, Claude: Hochelaga and Sons (Electric Velocipede, Jun07 <#13>)

Langan, John: Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers (F&SF, Sep07)

Leckie, Ann: The God of Au (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Apr08)

Leckie, Ann: The Snake’s Wife (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct07 )

Lee, Tanith: The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Asimov’s, Jan08)

Lerner, Edward M.: The Night of the RFIDS (Analog, May08)

Levinson, Paul: Unburning Alexandria (Analog, Nov08)

Ligon, Tom: El Dorado (Analog, Oct07)

Link, Kelly: The Constable of Abal (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)

Llewellyn, Livia: The Four Hundred Thousand (Subterranean Online, Sep07 )

Lovett, Richard A. and Niemann-Ross, Mark: New Wineskins (Analog, Oct08)

Maryson, W.J.: Verstummte Musik (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 , Category?)

McAuley, Paul J.: Incomers (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

McCarron, Meg: The Magician’s House (Strange Horizons, Jul08 )

McDonald, Ian: The Dust Assassin (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

McIntosh, Will: Midnight Blue (Asimov’s, Sep08)

Miller, Amy: Retrospect (F&SF, Feb08)

Millhauser, Steven: The Next Thing (Harper’s, May08)

Moffitt, Donald: The Beethoven Project (Analog, Apr08)

Moles, David: Finisterra (F&SF, Dec07)

Mueller, Richard: But Wait! There’s More! (F&SF, Aug08)

Nelson, David Erik: Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate (Paradox, May08 )

Oltion, Jerry: Judgement Passed (Wastelands, Jan08)

Park, Paul: Fragrant Godddess (F&SF, Nov07 )

Pelland, Jennifer: Brushstrokes (Unwelcome Bodies, Apex Publications, Feb08)

Pelland, Jennifer: The Last Stand of the Elephant Man (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct07 )

Pi, Tony: Metamorphoses in Amber (Abyss & Apex, Oct07 <#24>)

Pi, Tony: The Stone Cipher (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)

Pollock, Rachel: Immortal Snake (F&SF, May08)

Purdom, Tom: Sepoy Fidelities (Asimov’s, Mar08)

Purdom, Tom: The Mists of Time (Asimov’s, Aug07)

Randall, Marta: Lazaro y Antonio (F&SF, Jun07)

Reed, Kit: What Wolves Know (Asimov’s, Sep07)

Reed, Marguerite: Angels of a Desert Heaven (Lone Star Stories, Dec07)

Reed, Robert: Five Thrillers (F&SF, Apr08)

Reed, Robert: Night Calls (Asimov’s, Nov07 )

Resnick, Mike and Flint, Eric: Conspiracies: A Very Condensed 937-Page Novel (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Reynolds, Alastair: The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

Roberson, Chris: Death on the Crosstime Express (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Rosenblum, Mary: Sacrifice (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Rosenblum, Mary: Splinters of Glass (The New Space Opera, Eos, Jun07)

Rosenblum, Mary: The Egg Man (Asimov’s, Feb08)

Rubin, Jamie: When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jan08 )

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: G-Men (Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, Ed., Solaris, Jun08)

Ryman, Geoff: Days of Wonder (F&SF, Nov08 )

Sellar, Gord: Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues (Asimov’s, Jul08)

Silverstein, Janna: After This Life (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jan08 )

Sinisalo, Johanna: Baby Doll (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )

Smeds, Dave: Bearing Shadows (Sword and Sorceress XXII, Waters, Elisabeth, Ed., Norilana Books, Nov07)

Smith, Sherwood: The Rule of Engagement (Lace and Blade, Deborah Ross, Ed., Norilana Books, Feb08)

Somtow, S.P.: An Alien Heresy (Asimov’s, May08 , Category?)

Sparhawk, Bud: The Late Sam Boone (Analog, Jun08)

Stableford, Brian: Following the Pharmers (Asimov’s, Mar08)

Stanchfield, Justin: Beyond the Wall (Ruins Extraterrestrial, Eric T. Reynolds, Ed., Hadley Rille Books, Oct07)

Stoddard, James: The First Editions (F&SF, Apr08)

Stratmann, H.G.: The Paradise Project (Analog, Nov07)

Stross, Charles: Down on the Farm (Tor.com, Jul08?)

Sullivan, Tricia: Planetesimal Dawn (F&SF, Nov08 )

Swanwick, Michael: The Skysailor’s Tale (The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Tachyon Publications, Sep07)

Texter, Doug: Primetime (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)

Thomas, Lee: An Apiary of White Bees (Inferno, Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Dec07)

Tidhar, Lavie: Uganda (Hebrew Punk, Apex Publications, Oct07)

Trowbridge, Geoff: Suicide Note (Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Sky’s the Limit, Marco Palmieri, Ed., Pocket Books, Oct07)

Turtledove, Harry: News From the Front (Asimov’s, Jun07)

Utley, Steven: The 400-Million-Year Itch (F&SF, Apr08)

Vajra, Rajnar: On the Bubble (Analog, Jun07)

Van Pelt, James: Of Late I Drempt of Venus (Visual Journeys, Eric Reynolds, Ed., Hadley Rille Books, Jun07)

Welles, Harvey and Raines, Philip: Abigail & Chang (Challenging Destiny, Aug07)

Wentworth, K.D.: Kaleidoscope (F&SF, May07)

Wilhelm, Kate: Strangers When We Meet (Asimov’s, May08 )

Williams, Walter Jon: Pinochio (The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Apr08)

Willrich, Chris: A Wizard of the Old School (F&SF, Aug07)

1 comments so far.

1. Eccentric Seraphim on 16th December 2008 at 10:09 am

Page, Mike: “From Clarissa” (fantastichorror.com, Issue 7, Aug08)

All Guest Blogs

You can view all guest blogs here.

RSS Feed

Email Updates

You can also subscribe to receive new guest blog posts via email.

2007 Nebula Award Novel Nominees

The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner) by Michael Chabon

Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell

The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson

Odyssey by Jack McDevitt

The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman

The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown.

About the Author

Michael Chabon is the bestselling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell

The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically “free,” mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological development of the species under their control. Entire worlds have been placed under interdiction, cut off from the rest of the universe.

Descended from the islanders of lost Earth, the Ragamuffins are pirates and smugglers, plying the lonely spaceways around a dead wormhole. For years, the Satraps have tolerated the Raga, but no longer. Now they have embarked on a campaign of extermination, determined to wipe out the unruly humans once and for all.

About the Author

A professional blogger and SF/F author originally born in Grenada, Tobias currently lives in Ohio with his wife, Emily. Tobias began reading at a young age and started submitting and writing multiple short stories while in high school. He attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop in 1999. He sold his first story shortly afterwards, and has since gone on to sell over 30 more. He has written and sold three novels.

The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson

When an abandoned toddler appears on the shore of her Caribbean island home, Chastity Theresa Lambkin, aka "Calamity," becomes a foster mother in her 50s. Years previously, a one time, teenage experiment with a best friend unsure of his sexuality resulted in daughter Ifeoma. As Calamity, who narrates, now freely admits, Ifeoma bore the brunt of Calamity's immaturity, and their relationship still suffers for it. As Calamity relates all of this, things that have been missing for years inexplicably reappear, including an entire cashew tree orchard from Calamity's childhood that shows up in her backyard overnight. It could be island magic, or something much more prosaic. The rescued little boy's origins do have some genuinely magical elements (Calamity names him "Agway" after his foreign-sounding laughter), and Hopkinson's take on "sea people" and how they came to be adds depth and enchantment.

About the Author

Nalo Hopkinson a writer who has so far published a collection of short stories, four novels and an anthology or two. She has lived in Toronto, Canada since 1977, but spent most of her first 16 years in the Caribbean, where she was born.

Odyssey by Jack McDevitt

The world has discovered, despite all the promises held out by the champions of interstellar travel, that it offers few prospects for economic advantage. Public funding and private contributions for the Academy have been drying up. Even sightings of mysterious lights in the sky, once called UFO's, now known as moonriders, draw only skepticism. In an effort to recapture some of the glamor of earlier years, the Academy plans a well-publicized mission ostensibly to seek the truth about the moonriders. The mission will visit tour spots where they've been seen, while simultaneously — the real purpose of the flight — giving the general public a chance to get a good look at famous locations in the solar neighborhood.

About the Author

Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer, and motivational trainer. With the nominations of Infinity Beach, Ancient Shores, “Time Travelers Never Die,” Moonfall, “Good Intentions” (cowritten with Stanley Schmidt), “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City,” Chindi, Omega, and Polaris,, "Henry James, This One's for You," and Seeker, his work has been on the final Nebula ballot ten of the last eleven years.

The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman

Since H. G. Wells' heyday, the time travel scenario has undergone so much variation that it's easy to envision the river of ideas finally running dry. But here the ever-inventive Haldeman offers a new twist: a device that travels in one direction only, to the future. Lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller toils away in a physics lab until one day he makes an odd discovery. A sensitive quantum calibrator keeps disappearing and reappearing moments later when he hits the reset button. With a little tinkering, Matt realizes that the device functions as a crude, forward-traveling time machine.

About the Author

Born in Oklahoma 9 June 1943. Grew up in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D. C., and Alaska. Currently lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Gay Haldeman. As of August, 2008, they will have been married 43 years.

The Nebula Awards