The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced this year’s final ballot for the Nebula Awards and Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend, 24-26 April, in Los Angeles, California.
The final ballot was drawn from a vote on the preliminary ballot, which we presented in this article. And, as we announced in January, this is the last year in which there will be a preliminary ballot, and in which rolling eligibility will allow works from previous years onto the ballot. This is also the last year for which juries will be adding works in the four main fiction categories. The nominees, from which the active members of SFWA will be voting, are:
Novels:
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (published by Tor, April 2008)
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)
Superpowers by David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, June 2008)
Novellas:
“The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro (published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2008)
“Dark Heaven” by Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, Science Fiction Book Club, January 2007)
“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)
The Duke in His Castle by Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, June 2008)
Novelettes:
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes (F&SF, February 2008)
“The Ray Gun: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008)
” Dark Rooms” by Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, October/Noveber 2007)
“Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel (F&SF, January 2008)
“Night Wind” by Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, Norilana Books, February 2008)
“Baby Doll” by Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, Tor, June 2007; translated from the Finnish by David Hackston)
“Kaleidoscope” by K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May 2007)
Short Stories:
“The Button Bin” by Mike Allen (Helix, October 2007)
“The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking, July 2007)
“Trophy Wives” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, DAW, January 2008)
“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)
Scripts:
The Dark Knight by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, and David S. Goyer (released by Warner Bros., July 2008)
WALL-E screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon; original story by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter (Walt Disney, June 2008)
“The Shrine” by Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, August 2008)
Andre Norton Award for YA SF:
Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt, October 2008)
Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish (Putnam Juvenile, May2008)
Savvy by Ingrid Law (Dial, May 2008)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt and Company, April 2008)
Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, September 2008)
[Editor’s note: this post and the ballot were updated 2 March 2009 to reflect the additions of the Gardner novelette and the Nestvold short story, which SFWA accidentally left off the original ballot. See this story for details.]