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Nebula Weekend 2003

April 18–20, 2003
Radisson Plaza - Warwick Hotel
Philadelphia, PA

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Ursula K. Le Guin named SFWA GrandMaster

Katherine MacLean named Author Emeritus

The Dinner:

Prices, including meetings, banquet, Nebula Awards® ceremony, and parties: $85 for the entire weekend, until March 21, 2003, when the price increases to $100 until April 10, 2003. At door cost, $125, if banquet space is available.

Tables for groups of ten are multiples of ten of the prices given. There will be a cash bar with beer, wine, mixed drinks, hard liquor, and cordials, plus assorted soda, juices, and mineral water.

Event — programming, ceremony, and parties — but without banquet: $40.

A pull-out mail-in form will be bound into the February Forum or you may use this online form (either fill in & print it, print it and fill in, or fill in and use PayPal). The form is also available as a downloadable Word document or an RTF file. (Information updated 6 March 2003.)

Dinner will begin with fresh rolls and butter, and brandied mushroom bisque, which will be followed by a salad of mixed baby greens with walnut vinaigrette. All entrees will be accompanied by a suitable vegetable and starch, and a seasonal dessert with be served.

The Signing:

SF and fantasy writers attending the 2003 Nebula Awards ® weekend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will gather to sign their books. The host for the event is the majestic Free Public Library, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, famous for its fountains and the glorious view of the Art Museum and City Hall.

Books will be available for purchase at the library through Joseph Fox Bookshop, an esteemed local independent bookstore. A portion of the proceeds will go to support the projects of the Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Inc.
The authors:

Kevin J. Anderson

Catherine Asaro

2002 Nebula Nominee Adam-Troy Castro, “Sunday Night Yams At Minnie and Earl’s”

Suzy McKee Charnas

Ellen Datlow

2002 Nebula Nominee Andy Duncan, “The Chief Designer”

Scott Edelman

Sheila Finch

2002 Nebula Nominee Jeffrey Ford, “Creation”

2002 Nebula Nominee Gregory Frost, “Madonna of the Maquiladora”

Mitchell Graham

Joe Haldeman

Harry Harrison

Peter Heck

Howard V. Hendrix

Nancy Kress

Sharon Lee

Paul Levinson

Gordon Linzner

Lee Martindale

2002 Nebula Nominee Jack McDevitt, “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City”

2002 Nebula Nominee Robert A. Metzger, Picoverse

Steve Miller

Rebecca Ore

John Passarella

Tom Purdom

Stanley Schmidt

Lawrence M. Schoen

David Sherman

Bud Sparhawk

2002 Nebula Nominee2002 Nebula Nominee Michael Swanwick, Bones of the Earth and “The Dog Said Bow-Wow”

William Tenn

Connie Willis

Ann Tonsor Zeddies

This prestigious list includes Nebula finalists in all categories but drama as well as past award winners and finalists.

SFWA Book signing
Saturday, April 19th, 2003
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1116
Phone: (215) 686-5322

The Volunteers:

* Catherine Mintz: Event Organizer
(SFWA Eastern Regional Director)

* Catherine Asaro: Volunteer coordinator, publisher and media contacts; complimentary book/magazine contact, registration
SFWA Vice President

* Camille Bacon-Smith: Chair, mass booksigning

* Andrew Burt: 2003 Nebula web page webmaster

* Joni Dashoff: Postmistress for the PO Box, Assistant Treasurer, hospitality suite.

* Todd Dashoff: Program

* Howard Hendrix: registration
(SFWA Western Regional Director)

* Jane Jewell: SFWA Executive Director

* Nathan E Lilly: Database Manager

* Chuck Rothman: SFWA Treasurer

* Lois Tilton: publisher contact
(SFWA South/Central Regional Director)

The Hotel:

My first six months in office have been an odyessy, beginning with worrying about our not having completed all the contracts necessary for the Nebulas with The Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia—we had neither a banquet nor function space—continuing while it was decided that we not sign reissued banquet contracts with The Marriott and found we could not get sufficient function space. This concatenation of circumstances lead me to believe that we might have a better event elsewhere and I went looking.
So I hope you understand it is with pride and pleasure that I announce that the 2003 Nebula Awards Ceremony will be at the historic Radisson Plaza - Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia April 18 and 19, 2003. This is a small, elegant hotel in the city’s Rittenhouse district, and quite different from The Marriott, which may be familiar to many of you from the 2001 Worldcon or this year’s Philcon. Basically the entire restored 1926 hotel will be ours for the event. The area is rich with cafes, bars, and restaurants, among them Le Bec Fin, Susanna Foo’s, and The Striped Bass.

The basic room rate is eighty-two dollars. The Radisson’s reservation phone number is (800) 333-3333. (Ask for the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia; the promotion code is “SFWA”.)

The $82 rate allows double occupancy and extends to three days before the event and three days after. NOTE! The web link above only understands the $82 rate for certain before/after dates—if it doesn’t accept your dates, call them at the number above and they’ll take care of it.

Do plan to join us in celebration. For those wishing to view the hotel, their website is http://radisson.com/philadelphiapa. Banquet information will be posted when it becomes available.

--Catherine Mintz, Eastern Regional Director

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.

List of archived Nebula Weekends



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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.