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more about #nebulaawards Slovenly Muse: Oh, Joss. I want to laugh with you, not at you. But you make it so hard sometimes! more » TomSkylark: *ahem* more » OlavRokne: And this is exactly why I have no respect for the Nebula award. more » Mr. Praline: I love the Discworld series because there's such variation within them -- if you want a thoughtful and serious novel, read Small Gods and Reaper Man; ... more » termitehead: I could never get into Pratchett books. I tried twice and got maybe 50 or 60 pages in before I just had to put them down. more » PipeRifle: You've got an image up there for the audiobook, and I recommend it to any non-readers out there. Stephen Briggs does an amazing job bringing Pratchett... more » LittleDragon: Beware the Pratchett. He is worse then cocaine. Once you start you can't stop. My mother forgot to eat for two days while reading Making Money. This m... more » Leland Rzepecki: Award-nominated SF reading with 100% less reading? I'm in. more » Golem100: Sounds something like the Valiant comic "Harbinger" from the early 1990s. [en.wikipedia.org]) more » gods-n-clods: Excellent critique, G_A. more » Alexis: Beer? That's damn embarrassing. more » James Enge: @ Evil Tortie's Mom: "Anathem" should have been on the nominations list, but under the old rules (since changed) it would have had another year to be ... more » twDarkflame: I would dearly love some superheroes to actualy test and expirement with their powers, yet it seems so rare. Heroe's at least had Claire multilating h... more » Pope John Peeps II: Sounds like a teeny-bopper rip off of Soon I Will Be Invincible. more » FakingThroughLife: Seriously? They got their powers from beer? Does the book make any mention of other super powered people or are they the only ones? more » Rasselas: The magic beer angle will get some tedious play on SFF-fan Livejournals, at least. Less than if the gang had gotten their powers from magic bacon or L... more » FiorenzaDampt: A finalist for the Nebula? Really? It was all right, I suppose, in the way that it fills my fluffy-summer-reading niche, but I don't think it's worthy... more » bonniegrrl: "Fables" needs to just be handed that award. It's filled the Sandman void in my heart and James Jean's covers give me dream material for decades. more » Grey_Area: Okay, this is more like it! Is that Elizabeth Bear short available online? Love her work, missed that story. Those Nebula folk are all taking the craz... more » tawm: Check out the nominees for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form." Wow. I don't even know how I could begin to choose. Not a Battlestar fan, but the... more » -
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Wall-E, Patrick Ness And Nisi Shawl Sweep SF Awards
Here's Joss Whedon accepting the Ray Bradbury Award at the Nebula Awards ceremony. Also honored: Ursula K. Le Guin, Wall-E and Catherine Asaro. Meanwhile, Nisi Shawl and Patrick Ness scored Tiptree Awards More » -
#bookreview
Terry Pratchett vs. the Global Economic Crisis
Making Money, Terry Pratchett's Nebula-nominated, thirty-somethingth novel in Discworld series, could be a subtitled, "a comic fantasy on contemporary themes," ie the large-scale consensual fraud that is a banking system.
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#afternoonlistening
Listen To Disembodied Alien Voices All Afternoon
Starship Sofa has uploaded all seven Nebula-nominated stories from 2008 as podcasts, including Gwyneth Jones' "Tomb Wife," James Patrick Kelly's "Don't Stop," and Ruth Nestvold's "Mars: A Traveler's Guide." Good way to spend your afternoon. -
#bookreview
Superpowers Is A CW Show On Paper
With his first novel, David J. Schwartz attempts to imagine ordinary people, in a realistic setting, who gain Superpowers. It's one of the finalists for the Nebula Award.
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#nebulaawards
Final Nebula Awards Ballot Announced!
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Of America just announced the Nebula Awards finalists, and there are a couple of surprising omissions. More »
