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On
Saturday April 27, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
(SFWA) presented their annual awards, the Nebula Awards, at a banquet
in Kansas City.
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.
An
anthology of the short fiction winners and several runners-up is
published every year.
Congratulations
to all the winners!
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Nebula Award Winners |
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The
Quantum Rose
by Catherine
Asaro
Catherine
Asaro brings together science fiction and romance in a novel originally
serialized in Analog. She has previously won two Sapphire
Awards (given to science fiction romances). The Quantum Rose
presents a new chapter in Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire
(previous books include The
Last Hawk and Spherical
Harmonic). This time Kamoj Quanta Argali, a young noblewoman,
agreeing to marry a powerful stranger in order to save her people
from starvation...
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"The
Ultimate Earth"
by Jack
Williamson
Williamson
is a Grand Old Man of science fiction, having been publishing for
something like 60 years! He's definitely still writing decent stories,
as this winner (originally published in Analog in December
2000)
and a couple of recent stories in The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction illustrates. Here Williamson tells a good story
looking at the far future consequences of cloning.
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Novelette |
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"Louise's
Ghost"
by Kelly
Link
"Louise's
Ghost" is from Kelly Link's debut collection of short stories,
Stranger
Things Happen, published by Small Beer Press in July 2001.
Link's stories have been awarded the World Fantasy Award, the Tiptree
Award, and the collection has been nominated for the Firecracker
Award. In May 2002 she will be touring the country with Shelley
Jackson (interview).
"Louise's Ghost" follows two friends named Louise, one
of whom has a problem: there's a ghost in her house.
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Short
Story |
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"The
Cure for Everything"
by Severna
Park
From
Scifiction, the online fiction magazine edited by Ellen
Datlow. This is the second year in a row that a story from Scifiction
has won a Nebula. In
"The Cure For Everything" a tribe of South American Indians is discovered
whose genotype harbors within it the cure for almost everything.
Will they be exploited?
"Maria
was smoking damp cigarettes with Horace, taking a break in the
humid evening, when the truck full of wild jungle Indians arrived
from Ipiranga."
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Script |
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Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon
by James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai & Hui-Ling Wang
"Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon" rewrote the rule book for action films
with its concentration on the beauty of the human body in motion
and the deep emotions wonderfully portrayed by Michelle Yeoh and
Chow Yun Fat.
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Awards
Anthology |
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Nebula
Awards Showcase 2002
Edited by Kim
Stanley Robinson (interview)
An
anthology of the last
year's Nebula Award-winning fiction selected by the members
of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America includes works
by Eleanor Arnason, Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, Gardner Dozois, Linda
Nagata, and Walter Jon Williams, accompanied by commentary on the
current status of science fiction in the twenty-first century.
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