Nebula Award winners for 2008 announced
The 2008 Nebula Awards were announced last night in LA:
Congrats to all the winners!Best Novel: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Novella: "The Spacetime Pool" by Catherine Asaro
Best Novelette: "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel
Best Short Story: "Trophy Wives" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Script: WALL-E Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Andre Norton Award: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S. Wilce Solstice Award: Kate Wilhelm, A.J. Budrys and Martin H. Greenberg.
SFWA Service Award: Victoria Strauss
Bradbury Award: Joss Whedon
Grand Master Award: Harry Harrison
Author Emerita: M.J. Engh
(Yup, I didn't win -- win some, lose some! Honor just to be nominated. All that stuff. But a giant, heartfelt thanks to Wil Wheaton for attending on my behalf, and to all the writers who nominated and voted for Little Brother!)
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WALL-E's gong was bloody well-earned : D
Haven't read anything else on the list... good to see LeGuin's still making with the goods : )
Wilce's book is actually titled "Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room)."
It's excellent.
Cory, not to schmooze, but "Little Brother" is fantastic. I gave 5 copies to the Bristol Public Library here in RI, and the woman covering "young adults literature" used it for her reading group.
You done good, dude.
Woah, thanks, Randyman!
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YAY URSULA!!!
YAY JOSH!!!
Congrats also to Dick Cheney for the Nebula Non-Humanitarian Award. He wasn't able to attend, so they just left it on his pod.
Oh, and Obama's not of this Earth, either. Proof.
Who wants to be from Earth anyway?
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Cory:
Losing to Mrs. Le Guin is a huge motive of pride already!
Anyway, congrats, anyway. I have not bought Little Brother, but thanks to you, I read it. Thanks for that. You really made me remember vividly SF again.
Do you know when a Spanish translation is coming? I want to give it to my little brother.
Oddly, the only book I read on the nominee list was 'Little Brother'. Which I really enjoyed...no, wait, I'm schmoozing. And I never do that on a Sunday.
There is NO shame in loosing to Ursula LeGuin.
"I'm schmoozing. And I never do that on a Sunday."
I'm pretty sure there's nothing in Scripture that says you can't do that.
I actually finished Little Brother today Cory - and it was AMAZING. Don't know if i'm breaking any rules against schmoozing here, but I loved that book. And thanks for the reference section.
Catherine Asaro is a coach for one of the math contests I run. Yay!
I'm in the middle of Little Brother, and am quite enjoying it. I don't read a lot of sci fi, and this book doesn't strike me as particularly belonging to that genre. Does the fact that it's a dystopian novel automatically lump it in with science fiction? The other nominees seem, at a quick glance, to be much more traditional sci-fi/fantasy to me (people with superpowers, spaceships, etc.) Just wondering if that may be one reason it wasn't the winner...
Nah, MyPalMike. LB is firmly in the near-future SF category. One description (not "definition," because that will lead to all sorts of annoying hair-splitting) of Science Fiction is "fiction that explores the relationship between technology and society."
There are many others, of course, but LB is fairly typical of that one, though the technology is VERY near-future. But a story about how Neanderthal society was changed by the discovery of fire would be SF, too.
Hey! Embrace the term "SF", I say!
Like you say, Xopher, defining it is dangerous, but, MyPalMike, never be afraid of the term. I've known plenty of people that do as much as they can to avoid the term. For example:
"JG Ballard doesn't write SF"
"Oh, but Brave New World isn't SF"
And so on...
Redriche, good thread about that here.
Brilliant, Xopher!
That was almost exactly what was in my mind: the idea in many critics mind that if they consider something good that it can't *possibly* be SF.
Although, interestingly enough, I note that they make mention of 1984. Although that's a book I love and have read many many times I would not say that it is of the greatest literary merit. That's another one that I've had that argument about, funnily enough.
"How can you say that SF is intrinsically awful? I know you like 1984."
"But 1984 isn't SF, it's good."
*sigh*