{"id":1725,"date":"2014-02-26T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:21:01","slug":"i-have-some-pretty-cool-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/i-have-some-pretty-cool-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Some Pretty Cool Friends …"},"content":{"rendered":"

And some of them just made the short list for the Nebula Awards<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\"Nebula<\/p>\n

Here’s the full list, with my friends marked in bold<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

BEST NOVEL<\/strong>
\nWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves<\/em>, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood)
\nThe Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em>, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
\nFire with Fire<\/em>, Charles E. Gannon<\/a> (Baen<\/a>) — I’m particularly pleased that this was nominated, for reasons that may or may not be obvious<\/strong>
\nHild<\/em>, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
\nAncillary Justice<\/em>, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
\nThe Red: First Light<\/em>, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
\nA Stranger in Olondria<\/em>, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
\nThe Golem and the Jinni<\/em>, Helene Wecker (Harper)<\/p>\n

BEST NOVELLA<\/strong>
\n“Wakulla Springs,” Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10\/2\/13)
\n “The Weight of the Sunrise,” Vylar Kaftan<\/a> (Asimov’s<\/em>\u00a02\/13) <\/strong>
\n“Annabel Lee,” Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun<\/em>)
\n“Burning Girls,” Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6\/19\/13)
\n “Trial of the Century,” Lawrence M. Schoen<\/a> (lawrencemschoen.com, 8\/13;\u00a0World Jumping<\/em>)<\/strong>
\n“Six-Gun Snow White,” Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BEST NOVELETTE<\/strong>
\n“Paranormal Romance,” Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed<\/em>\u00a06\/13)
\n “The Waiting Stars,” Aliette de Bodard<\/a> (The Other Half of the Sky<\/em>)<\/strong>
\n“They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass,” Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s<\/em>\u00a01\/13)
\n“Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters,” Henry Lien (Asimov’s<\/em>\u00a012\/13)
\n “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King,” Ken Liu<\/a> (Lightspeed<\/em>\u00a08\/13) <\/strong>
\n “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” Sarah Pinsker<\/a> (Strange Horizons<\/em>\u00a07\/1 \u2013 7\/8\/13) <\/strong><\/p>\n

BEST SHORT STORY<\/strong>
\n“The Sounds of Old Earth,” Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed<\/em>\u00a01\/13)
\n“Selkie Stories Are for Losers,” Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons<\/em>\u00a01\/7\/13)
\n“Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer,” Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4<\/em>)
\n “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love,” Rachel Swirsky<\/a> (Apex<\/em>\u00a03\/13) <\/strong>
\n “Alive, Alive Oh,” Sylvia Spruck Wrigley<\/a> (Lightspeed<\/em>\u00a06\/13) <\/strong><\/p>\n

RAY BRADBURY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC PRESENTATION<\/strong>
\nDoctor Who<\/em>:\u00a0“The Day of the Doctor” (Nick Hurran, director; Steven Moffat, writer) (BBC Wales)
\nEuropa Report<\/em>\u00a0(Sebasti\u00e1n Cordero, director; Philip Gelatt, writer) (Start Motion Pictures)
\nGravity<\/em>\u00a0(Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, director; Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n & Jon\u00e1s Cuar\u00f3n, writers) (Warner Bros.)
\nHer<\/em>\u00a0(Spike Jonze, director; Spike Jonze, writer) (Warner Bros.)
\nThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/em>\u00a0(Francis Lawrence, director; Simon Beaufoy & Michael deBruyn, writers) (Lionsgate)
\nPacific Rim<\/em>\u00a0(Guillermo del Toro, director; Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro, writers) (Warner Bros.)<\/p>\n

ANDRE NORTON AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY<\/strong>
\nThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown<\/em>, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
\nWhen We Wake<\/em>, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
\nSister Mine<\/em>, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
\nThe Summer Prince<\/em>, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
\nHero<\/em>, Alethea Kontis<\/a> (Harcourt) <\/strong>
\nSeptember Girls<\/em>, Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
\nA Corner of White<\/em>, Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)<\/p>\n

DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD:<\/strong>\u00a0Samuel R. Delany<\/p>\n

SPECIAL GUEST:<\/strong>\u00a0Frank M. Robinson<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

I admit to some disappointment that other folks I nominated did not make the list, but with the exception of the dramatic works and the individual categories, I have at least one friend who is a finalist for each category. I think that’s pretty cool!<\/p>\n

Or, at least, I think my friends are pretty cool …<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And some of them just made the short list for the Nebula Awards! Here’s the full list, with my friends marked in bold: BEST NOVEL We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood) The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review) Fire \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[164,300,386],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-fantasy","tag-nebula-awards","tag-science-fiction-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}