The Nebula Awards

APRIL 2009 Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Nominees and Winners

View past nominees and winners of the Nebula Award.

Novels

Virtual library of Nebula and Norton novels at Shelfari.

Pictures

View images from the 2007 Nebula Awards Ceremony.

Links

A list of links to other sites & blogs of interest.

Links

SFWA and Nebula online profiles:

SFWA.org
The official website of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

SFWA Livejournal Community
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America community on Livejournal

Shelfari
Visual display of current and previously nominated novels.

Facebook

MySpace

News, Reviews and Information:

SFWA News

Locus Online
Locus Online, which went online in April 1997, is a semi-autonomous web version of Locus Magazine. Like the magazine, Locus Online focuses on news of the Science Fiction publishing field and coverage of new science fiction books and magazines. 

Science Fiction Weekly
The leading electronic publication covering the world of Science Fiction with news, reviews, original art and celebrity chat.

Ansible
A Science Fiction newsletter covering both the professional and the fan communities associated with (primarily) written sf

SFScope
Source of news about the speculative fiction fields.

SF Signal

SF Site

The Fix
The Fix online provides you with in-depth reviews of short fiction and poetry from the full spectrum of magazines, webzines, anthologies, and single-author collections in the industry.

The Internet Review of Science Fiction
IRoSF publishes intelligent articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and criticism to illuminate the most interesting and important work in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

SFRevu

Writer Beware
Writer Beware, a publishing industry watchdog group sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, shines a light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls.

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books.

Speculative Literature Foundation

Forums:

SFF Net
SFF Net is home to the most interesting authors, publishers, media pros, and consumers of genre fiction today.

Awards:

Hugo Awards
The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for administering them.

World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Convention is an annual gathering of professionals, collectors, and others interested in the field of Light and Dark Fantasy art and literature. The main features of the convention are the World Fantasy Awards, presented at a banquet on Sunday afternoon of each convention and the large Friday-evening autograph reception.

Arthur Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature.

James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The Tiptree Award is intended to reward those women and men who are bold enough to contemplate shifts and changes in gender roles, a fundamental aspect of any society.

Phillip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. They are awarded to the best original science fiction paperback published each year in the US

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year was established in 1987 by James Gunn, Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU, and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon, including his widow Jayne Sturgeon and Sturgeon’s children, as an appropriate memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.

John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Award for best science fiction novel of the year

John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award
The John W. Campbell Award is given to the best new science fiction or fantasy writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy was published in a professional publication in the previous two years.

Sidewise Award
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best allohistorical genre publications of the year.

Writers of the Future

Ditmar
The Ditmars are awarded annually for outstanding works of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror written by Australian citizens or by people who are permanent residents of Australia.

NSS Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award
The Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award honors those individuals who have made significant, lifetime contributions to the creation of a free spacefaring civilization.

Bram Stoker Award
Presented annually by the HWA, the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in the field of horror, were named in honor of Bram Stoker.

Shirley Jackson Awards
In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

International Horror Guild Awards
The International Horror Guild (originally the International Horror Critics Guild) was created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy.

Rhysling
The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year.

Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association

SF Awards Watch
The science fiction and fantasy industry has lots of awards. We watch them, we report on them, we talk about them.

Crompton Crook Award
The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year written by a single author in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc., at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the Baltimore, MD area each year.

Gaylactic Spectrum Awards
The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards were created in 1998 by the Gaylactic Network to honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues.

Organizations:

Horror Writers Association

Romance Writers of America

The Mystery Writers of America

British Science Fiction Foundation
In 1958 a group of leading authors, publishers, booksellers and fans decided that Britain needed an organisation to encourage science fiction in every form.

Australian Science Fiction Foundation
The Australian Science Fiction Foundation’s main purpose is to sponser and encourage the creation and appreciation of science fiction in Australia.

Science Fiction Poetry Association

Winners Presented in 2008

  • Novel: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
  • Novella: Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress
  • Novelette: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang
  • Short Story: Always by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Script: Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
  • Andre Norton Award: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

View the archives for a listing of all past winners.

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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.