#Nebula award

[ktempestbradford]

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[mightymur]

[ISBW] From Patent Memos to Nebula Nods with Wole Talabi

S20 Ep13: In Which Mur Attends Wole Talabi’s Creative Alchemy Transcript   “The primary driver of my sense of success is, ‘do I feel happy with what I’ve done?'” – Wole Talabi Mur chats with Wole Talabi, an engineer turned author (but still engineer). They discuss the Schrodinger’s Cat of publishing, the thrill of rewriting old stories for new audiences, and the joy of challenging the norms of…

[vierypotato]

Just finished R. F. Kuang's Babel on my road to reading every Nebula Award winner and it's another banger. I love the inventive magic system and how it doesn't replace but only supplements the relations of exploitation and imperialism by the british in this alt history. It's also funny to me that every time we hear the the White woman's perspective, it's so predictable but unassailably, quintessentially, the perspective of white womanhood centred in opposition to the exploitation and expropriation of wealth elsewhere around the world.

[drfionamoore]

Just a little note to say I’ll be appearing online at the Nebula Conference this year, and do please come to the panel on Mothers and Strong Women in Speculative Fiction. Yes, I’ll be talking about my own strong women Morag, Artie Quelch and Wills Fitzjames if I can!

[nicolagriffith]

Spear is a Nebula Finalist!

SPEAR is a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. I am *delighted*! Really thrilled, really pleased to be in this company, too, a terrific set of books; all very different in mood and tone.

Spear is a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. I am DELIGHTED!! I mean it—really thrilled. Really pleased to be in this company, too, a terrific set of books; all very different in mood and tone. Nebula Award for Novel Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor) Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom) Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager…

[lanceschaubert]

First Winner of Nebula Award

Who was the first winner of Nebula award? The first winner of Nebula award for best novel was Frank Herbert’s Dune, but other awards were offered that year. The ceremony started in 1965 and was presented simultaneously in the east at Overseas Press Club in New York, New York on March 11, 1966 and in the west at McHenry’s Tail O’ the Cock in Beverly Hills. The other awards? The first winner of…

[sarahreesbrennan]

I hesitated on this because awkward, but if you happen to be or want to be in SFWA, today's the last day for the Nebula nominations. As I'd love to write more in the In Other Lands world... my IOL novelette Tears Waiting to be Diamonds could be nominated.

I only recently worked out the In Other Lands books I'd like to write, because I was in 'U Fool, Nobody Will Let You Write Books Anymore' mode, and now... am full of tentative hope and fear for Long Live Evil and the future. So even though promotion is a terrifying thing (Irish voices say 'your one thinks a lot of herself!') I throw this out there.

[moniquill]

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath has been nominated for the 2024 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction!

[fandomsandfeminism]

The Nebula Awards are tomorrow (5/14)

Nebula Award for Novel

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)

Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)

Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)

Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)

The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

I'm frantically trying to finish The Mountain and the Sea right now. It's excellent. Still, I'm putting my money on Babel. It was incredibly good and haunting. (Though I would not be upset if any of them won.)

Nebula Award for Novella

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)

“Bishop’s Opening”, R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)

I Never Liked You Anyway, Jordan Kurella (Vernacular)

Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)

High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)

I have read all the novellas.I'm torn between Prayer for the Crown shy and Even Though I Knew the End. Both were amazing.

Unfortunately I didn't get to any of the YA books this year. (Or novellettes or short stories) If I finish Mountsin and the Sea, I'll try to at least read some of the short stories.

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Andor: “One Way Out”,

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nope

Our Flag Means Death

The Sandman: Season 1,

Severance

Ok, I have seen EEAAO, Our Flag Means Death, and Sandman. From those, EEAAO seems like the obvious choice.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/58th-nebula-awards-finalists/

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

In this month’s bonus chat, Ariel and Christina discuss Nebula-award-winning short story “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer – the first winning story that is being labelled solarpunk! Your hosts consider questions such as: what makes this short story solarpunk, actually? What makes it so compelling? If it’s supposed to be solarpunk, why is there no mention of climate change whatsoever?

These questions (and much, much more) are addressed here - but make sure to read the story first, if you don't want spoilers! It's free and takes about 20 minutes all told and is a genuinely excellent piece of short fiction.

Links:

Link to the story - https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/ The historical Year Without a Summer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer Episode with Jenny Kerber - https://youtu.be/uSz6YvhVsLI?si=hnjAPYUHGkDXUmc4 An analysis of the significance of "nature red in tooth and claw" - https://interestingliterature.com/2016/01/a-short-analysis-of-canto-lvi-from-tennysons-in-memoriam/ Soylent Green - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green Day of the Triffids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

[ktempestbradford]

20 years ago at Clarion West my submission story was one of the first we critiqued. Our instructor Nancy Kress advised that I not use the pen name I was currently going by (Finley Larkin - a combo of family names).

She said something like: Don't use a name you wouldn't want etched into a Nebula Award.

At the time thought: If I win a Nebula, I won't care what name they put on it because I'll be a Nebula winner!

Well. Here we are today and there's a Nebula with my name on it! 😍

I'll acknowledge that Nancy was correct in her overall advice. The name one writes under is important and one you want to be sure you want to be known by forever, if you get that lucky.

(she also advised the women in the room to write under their maiden name if they were or would get married just in case you ended up stuck with the name of someone you later wish you weren't associated with....)

I'm glad I switched to the name people had been calling me for years, Tempest, because it's the name that suits the me I've become.

Still, I had to get Finley in there somehow!

[evenaturtleduck]

Me: Let me be clear--I have no interest in books about literary white men having mid-life crises.

[Sees Arthur Less]

Me: OK I will make an exception because he looks very polite.

[malvo-ish]

Peter: It's art appreciation week. Peter: *Gestures to Nebula* Here's the art. Now appreciate her!

[re-colligere]

OMG ITS YOU!!!! YOU! I WAS OBSESSED WITH YOUR OLD DISEAR ART!!! Thank you for the compliment on my disgust art!!!!! I love how your style developed btw, sending so much love your way omg 💕💕

EEEP HELLO HELLO OMG!!! It's always a surprising treat that people still recognize my old fanart PFFFT!! it's no worries, you drew her sooo well I love it so much!!

Thank YOU for your wonderful words as well, looking back at my old art has been a nice nostalgia trip... Sending much love your way too!!! <333

[nicolagriffith]

Spear—Award Eligibility

If you plan to nominate SPEAR for an award (thank you!) here's what you need to know about world-length and award categories.

Image description: A book, Spear by Nicola Griffith. On the cover, the background is charcoal, shading to black at the bottom, with the author’s name at the top is orange-red and the title, at the bottom, and ‘from the author Hild’ in white. The main image is of a great hanging bowl of black iron with inlaid figures and great bronze escutcheons for the hanging hooks. It is wreathed about by smoke…

[lovelydrusilla]

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award 2023

Brushstroke by Monika Deviat

Andromeda, Unexpected by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty

New Class of Galactic Nebulae Around the Star YY Hya by Marcel Drechsler

Suspended in a Sunbeam by Tom Williams

A Sun Question by Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau

Mars-Set by Ethan Chappel

Sh2-132: Blinded by the Light by Aaron Wilhelm

Grand Cosmic Fireworks by Angel An

The Running Chicken Nebula by Runwei Xu and Binyu Wang