The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced their preliminary Nebula Award ballot for this year. Active members of the organization may vote for up to five nominees in each category, and the top vote-getters (plus any additions from the Nebula Award juries, which may add one work to each category) will comprise the final ballot (which will be mailed to the members in early March). The winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards weekend, 24-26 April at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California. The works on the preliminary ballot are those receiving at least ten recommendations during the calendar year after their first publication. All works are eligible for one calendar year from first publication in English, so the preliminary ballot contains things published in both 2007 and 2008. The preliminary ballot is:
Novels:
A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham (published by Tor in July 2007)
One for Sorrow by Chris Barzak (Bantam, September 2007)
Territory by Emma Bull (Tor, July 2007)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor, April 2008)
In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor, May 2007)
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, September 2007)
Cauldron by Jack McDevitt (Ace, November 2007)
Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Pyr, May 2007)
Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Harper, September 2007)
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW, April 2007)
Novellas:
“The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2008)
“Dark Heaven” by Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, SFBC)
“Dangerous Space” by Kelley Eskridge (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, June 2007)
“The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2008)
Novelettes:
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes (F&SF, February 2008)
“Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo” by Michael F. Flynn (Analog, July/August 2007)
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008)
“Dark Rooms” by Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, October/November 2007)
“Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel (F&SF, January 2008)
“The Prophet of Flores” by Ted Kosmatka (Asimov’s, September 2007)
“Finisterra” by David Moles (F&SF, Decembebr 2007)
“Baby Doll” by Johanna Sinisalo, translated from the Finnish by David Hackston (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, Tor, June 2007)
“Kaleidoscope” by K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May 2007)
Short Stories:
“The Button Bin” by Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, October 2007
“Skull Valley” by Michael Cassutt (Asimov’s, October/November 2007)
“Stranger Than Imagination Can” by Sheila Finch (The Guild of Xenolinguists, Golden Gryphon Press, September 2007)
“The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford (Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking Juvenile, July 2007)
“Bottles” by Samantha Henderson (Realms of Fantasy, April 2007)
“The Hotel Astarte” by M.K. Hobson (Realms of Fantasy, June 2007)
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, July 2008)
“The Tomb Wife” by Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, August 2007)
“Don’t Stop” by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, June 2007)
“Mars: A Traveler’s Guide” by Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, January 2008)
“The Astronaut” by Brian Plante (Analog, May 2007)
“Holiday” by Mary Rickert (Subterranean #7, September 2007)
“Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky” by Ken Scholes (Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2007)
“How Music Begins” by James Van Pelt (Asimov’s, September 2007)
Scripts:
WALL-E by Andrew Stanton (Pixar, June 2008)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:
No works made the preliminary ballot for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, but the Norton Jury may add up to three works to the final ballot.