2007 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: New York City, New York

Comments: In 2007 the Nebula Awards went to New York and did absolutely nothing much that was interesting. This isn't to say that the collection of winners were undeserving or uninteresting, but nothing much that was surprising happened, and no one seems to have had a particularly outstanding year. The only person to get more than one nominee was Scott Westerfeld, who was nominated twice for the Andre Norton Award, but no one else got more than a single nomination. I suppose one might be somewhat surprised that the juggernaut that is Doctor Who only got one nomination in the Best Script category, but after the sparse nominations in 2006, it was just surprising to see a fleshed out field this year.

Best Novel

Winner:
Seeker by Jack McDevitt

Other Nominees:
Farthing by Jo Walton
From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy

Best Novella

Winner:

Burn by James Patrick Kelly

Other Nominees:
Inclination by William Shunn
Sanctuary by Michael A. Burstein
The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko

Best Novelette

Winner:

Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle

Other Nominees:
Journey into the Kingdom by M. Rickert
The Language of Moths by Christopher Barzak
Little Faces by Vonda N. McIntyre
Walpurgis Afternoon by Delia Sherman

Best Short Story

Winner:
Echo by Elizabeth Hand

Other Nominees:
An End to All Things by Karina Sumner-Smith
Helen Remembers the Stork Club by Esther M. Friesner
Henry James, This One's for You by Jack McDevitt
Pip and the Fairies by Theodora Goss
The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations by Eugene Mirabelli

Best Script

Winner:

Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt

Other Nominees:

Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer

Battlestar Galactica: Unfinished Business by Michael Taylor
Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace by Steven Moffat

Andre Norton Award

Winner:

Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier

Other Nominees:
Devilish by Maureen Johnson
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Life As We Know It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Midnighters, Book Two: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Go to previous year's nominees: 2006
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2008

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2006 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Tempe, Arizona

Comments: 2006 was the first year in which the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy was bestowed, going to Holly Black for her novel Valiant. The SFWA steadfastly maintains that the Andre Norton Award is not a Nebula Award despite having an identical nominating and selection process that involves essentially the same people serving as judges. But I am just as obstinate as the SFWA, and as the old saying goes "If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck" then it must be a Nebula Award, so I am listing the Andre Norton Award here with the Nebula Awards.

One thing that seems puzzling is the SFWA's insistence that the Andre Norton Award (and the Ray Bradbury Award) is not a Nebula Award. Given that the awards are functionally identical, why the differentiation? Is it so that writers of adult fiction can pretend to honor authors who write young adult works and still look down their noses at them? Or so that book writers can pooh-pooh those who write for filmed media? These distinctions drawn by the SFWA simply don't make sense except as a way to exclude certain authors from being able to assert that they have won a Nebula.

Best Novel

Winner:
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman

Other Nominees:
Air by Geoff Ryman
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
Polaris by Jack McDevitt

Best Novella

Winner:

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

Other Nominees:
Clay's Pride by Bud Sparhawk
Identity Theft by Robert J. Sawyer (reviewed in Red Planet Blues)
Left of the Dial by Paul Witcover
The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey

Best Novelette

Winner:

The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link

Other Nominees:
Flat Diane by Daniel Abraham
Men Are Trouble by James Patrick Kelly
Nirvana High by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi

Best Short Story

Winner:
I Live With You by Carol Emshwiller

Other Nominees:
Born-Again by K.D. Wentworth
The End of the World As We Know It by Dale Bailey
My Mother, Dancing by Nancy Kress
Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan
Still Life With Boobs by Anne Harris
There's a Hole in the City by Richard Bowes

Best Script

Winner:

Serenity by Joss Whedon

Other Nominees:

Battlestar Galactica: Act of Contrition/You Can't Go Home Again by Carla Robinson, Bradley Thompson, and David Weddle

Andre Norton Award

Winner:

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faery by Holly Black

Other Nominees:
The Amethyst Road by Louise Spiegler
Siberia by Ann Halam
Stormwitch by Susan Vaught

Go to previous year's nominees: 2005
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2007

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