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Nebula Weekend 2004

April 15–18, 2004 in Seattle, Washington

Robert Silverberg:
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Charles Harness:
Author of Distinction, by Catherine Asaro
Appreciation, by Edward Carmien

Service to SFWA Award:
Michael Capobianco & Ann Crispin

Keynote speaker: Rick Rashid

Toastmaster: Neal Stephenson

Multi-author book signing:

Barnes and Noble at Pacific Place presents SFWA’s traditional multi-author book signing from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 16.

Pacific Place is an upscale urban shopping center at 7th and Pine, just three blocks from the Westin Seattle.
Participants

Karen Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson

Robin Wayne Bailey

Current Nebula nomineeKage Baker

Greg Bear

Michael Capobianco

Richard J. Chwedyk

A.C. Crispin

Ellen Datlow, editor, SciFiction

Keith R.A. DeCandido, editor, Imaginings

William C. Dietz

L.Timmel Duchamp

Scott Edelman, ed., Science Fiction Weekly

Current Nebula nomineeHarlan Ellison

Ru Emerson

Kelley Eskridge

Sheila Finch

Current Nebula nomineeKathleen Ann Goonan

Harold Gross & Eve Gordon (writing as Gordon Gross)

Nicola Griffith

Eileen Gunn, ed. The Infinite Matrix

Karen Haber

Joe Haldeman

Peter Heck

Howard V. Hendrix

Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm

Kij Johnson

Kay Kenyon

Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb)

Louise Marley

Lee Martindale

Current Nebula nomineeJack McDevitt

Vonda N. McIntyre

Syne Mitchell

Rebecca Moesta

Current Nebula nomineeElizabeth Moon

John Moore

Mike Moscoe (also writing as Mike Shepard)

Richard Paul Russo

Elizabeth Anne Scarborough

Lawrence Schoen

Robert Silverberg (2004 Grand Master)

Sara Stamey

Amy Thomson

Gordon Van Gelder, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Current Nebula nomineeJames Van Pelt

Current Nebula nomineeRay Vukcevich

K.D. Wentworth

Leslie What

Connie Willis

Nebula Awards® Banquet:

Tickets

A “Parties and Panels” membership is available for $30, at the door. Holders of these tickets will be admitted into the banquet hall after the meal to enjoy the Nebula Awards ceremony.The deadline for buying banquet tickets has passed.

Hotel update: March 26. The Westin is now reporting that they are full for the Nebula Weekend.
Swirly Separator
Banquet: Saturday, April 17
Menu
Salad
Romaine hearts, spiced walnuts, pecans and hazelnuts, Cambozola blue cheese with pear vinaigrette
Entree
Filet Mignon with grilled mushrooms and balsamic shallot sauce
or
Basil crusted Salmon with red pepper pesto
or
Vegetarian Stacked Deck (layers of roasted red bell pepper, mushrooms, zucchini, and fresh mozzarella)
or
Kosher or other special meals available on request
Dessert
Orange Chocolate Pyramid
or
Grand Marnier Brulée

Programming Schedule:

Thursday
April 15, 2004

6:00 p.m. — SFWA Suite opens; badges can be picked up.

Rainier Suite
(39th Floor, South Tower)

7:00 p.m. — Informal wine tasting featuring Pacific Northwest wines.

Rainier Suite
“Science Friday”
April 16, 2004

10:00 a.m. — Registration opens

Cascade Foyer, 2nd floor

1:00-2:00 p.m. — The Blind Men and the Quantum: Testing Quantum Interpretations.

Cascade 2

Presented by Prof. John G. Cramer, Department of Physics, University of Washington, and SFWA Member

A new experiment appears to falsify the orthodox Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics and the currently fashionable Many-Worlds Interpretation, while its results are easily explained with John’s “quantum-handshake” Transactional Interpretation.

2:00-3:00 p.m. — What if We Could See Molecules? Utopian and Dystopian Futures for the Emerging Technology of Quantum Biomicroscopy.

Cascade 2

Presented by John A. Sidles, “Surprised to be a quantum engineer,” University of Washington Quantum System Engineering Group

Many SF authors have written about mad scientists, but how many have you met? Dr. Sidles will discuss quantum microscopy’s thrilling (or chilling) prospects, as well as the nitty-gritty daily reality of a quantum system engineer.

3:00-4:00p.m. — The Digital Biosphere.

Cascade 2

Presented by Mark Minie, BioResearch Liaison, University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries/BioCommons; EduCollab Group, National Center for Biotechnology Information; Vice President\Director, Pacific Northwest Bio\Technologies Alliance

Earth’s BioSphere is rapidly being digitally imaged, stored and modeled on the Internet--what does this mean and where is this taking us?

4:00-5:00 p.m. — Biology: tested and approved by Mother Nature

Cascade 2

Presented by Rose James, Dept. of Genome Sciences, University of Washington; founder of the McMaines Institute

A review of biological survival in terms of evolution, ecology and medicine.

5:30-7:30 p.m. — Multi-author book signing

Barnes & Noble

6:00 p.m. — Registration closes; badges can be picked up in SFWA suite

7:30-9:00 p.m. — Dinner break

9:00 p.m., — Presentation of pins and certificate to Nebula nominees; concert by Bloodhag

Cascade 2

Their website says, “Crowds at BlöödHag shows can expect to be pelted with classic Sci-Fi novels while their hearing is destroyed by the balls-out attack that is uniquely Edu-Core. BlöödHag tears up the stage in a freaked-out frenzy of activity, pausing only to elaborate on the personal histories and great works of the authors the songs are about. In around twenty minutes the show is over, and class is dismissed. The drunken crowd mills about, reading the books they were just hit in the head with, and feeling a whole lot smarter.” And that’s exactly what it is. Don’t miss this amazing Seattle band!

10:00 p.m.-midnight — Clarion West hosts the convention suite party.

Rainier Suite
“Writer’s Saturday”
Saturday, April 17, 2004

10:00 a.m. — Registration opens

Cascade Foyer

10:00-11:00 a.m. — From Mechanical to Digital: An Overview of E-Books and E-rights

Cascade 2

Richard Curtis, moderator (founder of E-Reads and New York literary agent), Bridget McKenna (co-founder, Scorpius Digital Publishing), Marti McKenna (co-founder, Scorpius Digital Publishing, and Bob Kruger (founder of ElectricStory.com)

11:00 a.m-12 noon — For love or money? Webzines and Small Press

Cascade 2

Eileen Gunn, moderator (editor, The Infinite Matrix), Ellen Datlow (editor, Sci-Fiction), L. Timmel Duchamp (editor, Fantastic Metropolis), and Patrick Swenson (editor, Talebones)

Noon-1:00 p.m. — Lunch break

1:00-3:00 p.m. — SFWA business meeting

Cascade 2

3:00-4:00 p.m — Shivering the Timbers of the E-Pirates

Cascade 2

Andrew Burt (SFWA VP and chair of SFWA’s E-Piracy Committee), Harlan Ellison, and Rob Hamadi (chair of E-Piracy Committee of the British Publisher’s Association)

4-5pm — Hand-in-hand: Fostering the Partnership Between Independent Booksellers and Authors

Cascade 2

Greg Ketter, moderator (Dreamhaven Books), Judith Chandler (Third Place Books), and Duane Wilkins (University Book Store)

6:00-7:00 p.m. — Reception

Cascade Foyer

7:00 p.m. — Banquet. Presentations: Nebula Awards ®, Grand Master, Service to SFWA.

Cascade Ballroom

Toastmaster Neal Stephenson, Keynote Speaker Rick Rashid (Senior Vice President of Microsoft Research)

Non-banquet ticket holders may be seated to enjoy the speeches and awards ceremony after approximately 8:00 p.m.

After the ceremony, in the SFWA Suite: Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 publication party, with cake & champagne sponsored by Roc.

Rainier Suite
“To infinity… and beyond!” Sunday
April 18, 2004

Noon-3:00 p.m. (approx) — Experience Music Project

Pre-opening tour of the under-construction Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. This will be in two parts, a presentation in the JBL Theater, and small group tours of the SFM facility. Please sign up for a tour time at the Nebula Weekend registration desk.

Experience Music Project is at 325 5th Avenue North, one mile away. To get there, leave the hotel on the 5th Avenue side. To walk, turn right and follow the monorail track along 5th. It’ll actually go through the EMP/SFM building just as it arrives at the station. To take the monorail, turn left onto 5th and follow the track one block to the station at Westlake Center. Go upstairs to buy tickets and board. Don’t worry about getting off at the right stop -there’s only one! Please wear your Nebula Weekend badge to identify yourself to the museum staff.

If you enter from the side facing the monorail station, go through the main ticket lobby and down the staircase. There is also an elevator to the lower level. Turn right past the gift shop and go in to the JBL Theater.

If you enter from the 5th Avenue side, by the Turntable Restaurant, once inside turn left just past the gift shop and go in to the JBL Theater.

Hospitality Suite Schedule

Rainier Suite
39th Floor, South Tower
Thursday

6:00 p.m. — Suite opens; registration available

7:00-9:00 p.m. — Pacific Northwest wine-tasting

9:00 p.m. — Evening hospitality
Friday

9:00 a.m. — suite opens

2:00-5:00 p.m. — “Welcome to Seattle” provided by co-host Cascadia Con

6:00 p.m. — registration available in suite during signing

10:00 p.m. — party provided by co-host Clarion West
Saturday

9:00 a.m. — suite opens

3:00-5:00 p.m. — high tea provided by co-host Foolscap

7:00-10:00 p.m. — closed during banquet

10:00 p.m. — Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 publication party, hosted by Roc Books and Vonda N. McIntyre.
Sunday

9:00 a.m. — suite opens: salmon, bagels and other items provided by SFWA and co-host Black to the Future
Cascadia Con
2005 NASFIC
Lake Union Suite
39th Floor, South Tower
Saturday only

4:00-6:00 p.m. — Happy Hour at Cascadia

6:00-9:00 p.m. — Suite closed

9:00 p.m. — Local Beer and Wine tasting party
Norwescon
Crown Suite
40th Floor, South Tower

Friday: 4:00 p.m.-midnight

Saturday: 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 p.m. — reopens after banquet and awards ceremonies

Seattle will be hosting its first ever Nebula weekend in April of 2004. Our outstanding committee is working hard to ensure a specactular event with a Northwest flair.
The Nebula weekend will take place at the The Westin Seattle. This fine facility is located in the heart of downtown Seattle, at 5th and Stewart, and surrounded by opportunities for fine dining, exciting shopping, and just plain sightseeing. A short walk will bring you to the fun of Pike Place Market and the waterfront, and the cultural heart of Seattle, Seattle Center, is just a monorail ride away.
Plans for the weekend include:
• Thursday the 15th: SFWA suite opens for the evening
• Throughout the weekend: Hospitality events hosted by local SF groups.
• Friday the 16th: The traditional Multi-Author Book Signing, at Barnes and Noble in Pacific Place, an upscale urban shopping center just three blocks from the hotel, at 7th and Pine
• Friday and Saturday: A full schedule of programming
• Saturday the 17th: Banquet and Nebula Awards® ceremony.
• Sunday: Pre-opening hard-hat tour of Experience Science Fiction, the first SF hypermuseum, scheduled to open during the summer of 2004
Information: Astrid Anderson Bear

A Nebula Awards® event will be held in Philadelphia on Sunday, April 18, the day after the Nebula Awards are announced in Seattle. It will run from 2 to 4 pm at the Main Branch of the Free Library in Philadelphia, 1701 Vine Street.
Several award-winning writers have been lined up to talk or read at the event (names will be posted when details are confirmed). Plans include a talk about Robert Silverberg, who is this year’s Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.
Information about the main Nebula Awards weekend and ceremony in Seattle can be found at http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2004/.
Posted April 4, 2004

2009 Nebula, Bradbury, and Andre Norton Award Nominees

  • Short Story
  • Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela, Saladin Ahmed
    I Remember the Future, Michael A. Burstein
    Non-Zero Probabilities, N. K. Jemisin
    Spar, Kij Johnson
    Going Deep, James Patrick Kelly
    Bridesicle, Will McIntosh

  • Novelette
  • The Gambler, Paolo Bacigalupi
    Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult
       Orphanage    , Michael Bishop
    I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said, Richard Bowes
    Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask,
       Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast    , Eugie Foster
    Divining Light, Ted Kosmatka
    A Memory of Wind, Rachel Swirsky

  • Novella
  • The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker
    Arkfall, Carolyn Ives Gilman
    Act One, Nancy Kress
    Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
    Sublimation Angels, Jason Sanford
    The God Engines, John Scalzi

  • Novel
  • The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
    The Love We Share Without Knowing, Christopher Barzak
    Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman
    The City & The City, China Miéville
    Boneshaker, Cherie Priest
    Finch, Jeff VanderMeer
  • Bradbury Award
    Best Dramatic Production
  • Star Trek, JJ Abrams
    District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
    Avatar, James Cameron
    Moon, Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker
    Up, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
    Coraline, Henry Selick

  • Andre Norton Award
  • Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker
    Ice, Sarah Beth Durst
    Ash, by Malinda Lo
    Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev
    Zoe’s Tale, John Scalzi
    When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
    The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A
       Ship Of Her Own Making    , Catherynne M.
       Valente
    Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld

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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Love We Share Without Knowingby Christopher Barzak

Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman

The City & The Cityby China Miéville

Bone Shakerby Cherie Priest

Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man" ( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.

About the Author

Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. It has been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy, nominated for a Nebula and four Hugo awards, and has won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best sf short story of the year.

The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate.

On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong.

From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection—uncovering the love we share without knowing.

Exquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak’s artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find—or lose—themselves in an often incomprehensible world.

About the Author

Christopher Barzak grew up in rural Ohio, went to university in a decaying post-industrial city in Ohio, and has lived in a Southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. His stories have appeared in a many venues, including Nerve.com, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Strange Horizons, Salon Fantastique, Interfictions, Asimov’s, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. His first novel, One for Sorrow, was published by Bantam Books in Fall of 2007, and won the Crawford Award that same year. He is the co-editor (with Delia Sherman) of Interfictions 2, and has done Japanese-English translation on Kant: For Eternal Peace, a peace theory book published in Japan for Japanese teens. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he teaches writing at Youngstown State University.

Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman

Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines, and selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and they are prohibited from holding power.

But now rumors come of a new darkness rising in the vineyards. Strange, terrifying creatures, sudden plagues, and mysterious disappearances threaten the land. Only one Vineart senses the danger, and he has only one weapon to use against it: a young slave. His name is Jerzy, and his origins are unknown, even to him. Yet his uncanny sense of the Vinearts' craft offers a hint of greater magics within -- magics that his Master, the Vineart Malech, must cultivate and grow. But time is running out. If Malech cannot teach his new apprentice the secrets of the spellwines, and if Jerzy cannot master his own untapped powers, the Vin Lands shall surely be destroyed.

In Flesh and Fire, first in a spellbinding new trilogy, Laura Anne Gilman conjures a story as powerful as magic itself, as intoxicating as the finest of wines, and as timeless as the greatest legends ever told.

About the Author

Born in the late 1960’s in suburban New Jersey, Laura Anne endured only moderate trauma - and some good times - before escaping to Skidmore College. After graduation, given the choice between grad school and employment, the lure of a paycheck took her to NYC and a career in publishing, while working nights and weekends to get her writing career started. In 2004, she and corporate America decided they needed a break from each other. Her first original novel contract in-hand, Laura Anne became a full-time freelancer, and never looked back. She is the author of the Cosa Nostradamus books for Luna (the “Retrievers” and “Paranormal Scene Investigations” series), a YA trilogy for HarperCollins, and the forthcoming Vineart War books from Pocket, while continuing to write and sell short fiction. She also writes paranormal romances for Nocturne as Anna Leonard. Laura Anne is also an amateur chef, oenophile, and cat-servant. She lives in New York City, where she also runs d.y.m.k. productions.

The City & The City by China Miéville

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

About the Author

China Miéville is the author of King Rat; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.

His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

About the Author

Cherie Priest made her debut with the Eden Moore series of Southern Gothic ghost stories that began with Four and Twenty Blackbirds. She lives in Seattle, Washington, and keeps a popular blog at cmpriest.livejournal.com.

Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

Tasked with solving an impossible double murder, detective John Finch searches for the truth among the rubble of the once-mighty city of Ambergris. Under the rule of the mysterious gray caps, Ambergris is falling into anarchy. The remnants of a rebel force are demoralized and dispersed, their leader, the Lady in Blue, not seen for months. Partials—human traitors transformed by the gray caps—walk the streets brutalizing the city’s inhabitants. Finch’s partner Wyte, stricken with a fungal disease, is literally disintegrating. And strange forces are marshaling themselves against detective Finch even as he pursues his one clue: the elusive spymaster Ethan Bliss. How much time does Finch have before time itself runs out?

About the Author

Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer's final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch, has just been published in the US, and will appear in the UK from Atlantic's Corvus imprint. His writer guide Booklife and associated Booklifenow website focus on sustainable creativity. With his wife, he recently edited the charity anthology Last Drink Bird Head. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Library of America's American Fantastic Tales, and several year's best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Omnivoracious, The New York Times Book Review, the B&N Review, and many others. Murder by Death recently completed a CD soundtrack based on Finch./.