2014 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2014 Nebula Awards (presented 2015), nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Novel
The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu ( ), translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
Coming Home, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)
Novella
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
“The Regular,” Ken Liu (Upgraded)
“The Mothers of Voorhisville,” Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
Calendrical Regression, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion)
“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap),” Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)
Novelette
“Sleep Walking Now and Then,” Richard Bowes (Tor.com 7/9/14)
“The Magician and Laplace’s Demon,” Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 12/14)
“A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF 7-8/14)
“The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
“We Are the Cloud,” Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
“The Devil in America,” Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)
Short Story
“The Breath of War,” Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/14)
“When It Ends, He Catches Her,” Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 9/26/14)
“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye,” Matthew Kressel (Clarkesworld 5/14)
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family,” Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
“A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide,” Sarah Pinsker (F&SF 3-4/14)
“Jackalope Wives,” Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/7/14)
“The Fisher Queen,” Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5/14)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Edge of Tomorrow, Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Guardians of the Galaxy, Written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Interstellar, Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
The Lego Movie, Screenplay by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
Salvage, Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
Dirty Wings, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Leslye Walton (Candlewick)
About the Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. Voting will open to SFWA Active members on March 1 and close on March 30. More information is available from http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/how-to-vote/.
About the Nebula Awards Weekend
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 50th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend will be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, June 4 through 7, 2015. The weekend will include tours and workshops, including workshops on self-publishing and IP law and other legal issues of interest to writers.
The cost to attend is $70, and the Weekend is open to both SFWA members and non-members. For more information, please see http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/, or contact Steven H Silver at events@sfwa.org.
strongly support THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM by Mr.Liu and u will make unbeliveble benifits from it due to the large Chinese SF market.
No Grand Master this year?
Another posting I got mentioned Larry Niven as Grand Master
The three-body problem has my HIGHEST recommendation. It is the best science fiction novel in China.
Greetings to The Three-Body Problem!
Cixin Liu definitely deserves the nomination.
恭喜大刘！
支持三体，支持大刘，让更多的人知道黑暗森林理论，希望好莱坞能改编成电影。
The three body problem is the best Science Fiction novel I’ve ever seen.
But I prefer “trianpology” as the name of this book ^o^
Me tooooo…. What is The three body problem???? How could he just literally translated that..
so excited to see cixin liu’s name listed here. it will be great to see him win the best novel prize.
As a Chinese,I have read many sci-fi novels and seen many sci-fi movies from America.
I hope that The Three-body Problem can get the award.
So Americans will realize how great progress has been made in sci-fi field of China.
大刘的球形闪电也很好看呀！
Good job Liu 🙂
大刘好样的！
Best wishes to our Chinese writer！
期待看大刘拿奖！
Awesome
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM is the best SF novel I’ve seen.
It deserves the award.
消灭人类暴政，世界属于三体！
Strongly recommand The Three-body Problem, which is a fascinating novel.
希望三体这样的神作能被很多人了解！
Hope that the three body problems ,a fantastic novel,can be known to more people!
The Three body problem is the best
Three Body is definitely worth to read, but i really worry about if the translation is good enough… btw, the II and III is much better than I.
is just the first part of “Three-Body” trilogy. I really hope that the English version of other two parts can be available ASAP in US.
专门过来为大刘加油的！
The Martian by Andy Wier didn’t make the cut?! 🙁
The Martian was originally published in 2011, and so wouldn’t have been eligible this year.
Ancillary Sword by Leckie and Annihilation by VanderMeer made my 2014 reading list. Both novels deserve nominations.
Too many tired and unoriginal novels crown this list. McDevitt’s lifetime contributions deserve an award. His rinse & repeat novels don’t warrant a nomination.
The voting process creates the paradox. SWFA’s 1,600+ members vote. Top six make the nomination list.
SWFA voting results follow a bell curve or Gaussian. Voters reads some number of books per year. A small population reads 30+ books a year. These overachievers make excellent voters. The opposite side of the spectrum read zero books a year. These folks should abstain. Doubt they do. Repeated nominees with bad novels suggests a low average. Makes sense. SFWA writers are busy people. They read their favorites.
This is difficult to prove. SFWA member won’t admit reading two books per year.
Matthew Foster Ph.D
quarkytrons.com
The Three Body Problem is even brings more views to this websites. Go Chinese Sci-Fi.