Nebula awards!
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psocopteraI tried to stay up to watch these despite them starting at 8 pm in Los Angeles, but gave up around my 11:45 when they still hadn't started. Were they... waiting to make sure the East Coast had gone to bed?? Anyways as it turned out I'm not all that excited about many of the results (by which I mean my favorites didn't win) so I don't regret having missed it.
The Nebula winners (link to Locus, winners bolded below)
Novel
The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
Witchmark, C.L. Polk
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse
Still haven't read it! Or Poppy War or Witchmark. But I was rooting for Blackfish City, or would have been equally happy to see Spinning Silver win (especially as a possible forecast of the Hugos).
Novella
Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee
The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark
The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard
Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
I enjoyed Tea Master! But I would have ranked it fourth on this list, of the four I've read.
Novelette
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
“The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births”, José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18)
“The Rule of Three”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Future Science Fiction Digest 12/18)
“Messenger”, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi (Expanding Universe, Volume 4)
I am not at all surprised - still haven't read it myself, but the buzz has all pointed this way even before nominee lists were out.
Short Story
“Interview for the End of the World”, Rhett C. Bruno (Bridge Across the Stars)
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
“Going Dark”, Richard Fox (Backblast Area Clear)
“And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3-4/18)
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
“The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
Go Clark!! This was the one acceptance speech I was excited to hear and when I clicked through the video this morning looking for it was disappointed to find out he couldn't make it to the awards and had sent some very short thanks for someone else to read. I hope he's a) going to Dublin and b) wins for novella.
Game Writing
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)
The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog, Orion Walker, and Adam Dolin (Santa Monica Studio/Sony/Interactive Entertainment)
Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)
I still know nothing about this category. I guess I could watch the presentation or acceptance for this and see if I learned something, although actually if this was a TV person I'm sure they weren't there, so, whatever.
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy”, Written by: Megan Amram
Black Panther, Written by: Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole
A Quiet Place, Screenplay by: John Krasinski and Bryan Woods & Scott Beck
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Screenplay by: Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman
Dirty Computer, Written by: Janelle Monáe and Chuck Lightning
Sorry to Bother You, Written by: Boots Riley
Ok, Spider-Verse beat Black Panther, so now I'm predicting that will happen again with the Hugos.
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi
A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff
Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman
Dread Nation, Justina Ireland
Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien
Wow, okay, a lot of people clearly had a really different experience reading this book than I did. That's great! Different people can like different things! Yay for there being so much YA that we can all find things we like!
The Nebula winners (link to Locus, winners bolded below)
Novel
The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
Witchmark, C.L. Polk
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse
Still haven't read it! Or Poppy War or Witchmark. But I was rooting for Blackfish City, or would have been equally happy to see Spinning Silver win (especially as a possible forecast of the Hugos).
Novella
Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee
The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark
The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard
Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
I enjoyed Tea Master! But I would have ranked it fourth on this list, of the four I've read.
Novelette
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
“The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births”, José Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18)
“The Rule of Three”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Future Science Fiction Digest 12/18)
“Messenger”, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi (Expanding Universe, Volume 4)
I am not at all surprised - still haven't read it myself, but the buzz has all pointed this way even before nominee lists were out.
Short Story
“Interview for the End of the World”, Rhett C. Bruno (Bridge Across the Stars)
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
“Going Dark”, Richard Fox (Backblast Area Clear)
“And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3-4/18)
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
“The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
Go Clark!! This was the one acceptance speech I was excited to hear and when I clicked through the video this morning looking for it was disappointed to find out he couldn't make it to the awards and had sent some very short thanks for someone else to read. I hope he's a) going to Dublin and b) wins for novella.
Game Writing
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)
The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog, Orion Walker, and Adam Dolin (Santa Monica Studio/Sony/Interactive Entertainment)
Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)
I still know nothing about this category. I guess I could watch the presentation or acceptance for this and see if I learned something, although actually if this was a TV person I'm sure they weren't there, so, whatever.
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy”, Written by: Megan Amram
Black Panther, Written by: Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole
A Quiet Place, Screenplay by: John Krasinski and Bryan Woods & Scott Beck
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Screenplay by: Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman
Dirty Computer, Written by: Janelle Monáe and Chuck Lightning
Sorry to Bother You, Written by: Boots Riley
Ok, Spider-Verse beat Black Panther, so now I'm predicting that will happen again with the Hugos.
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi
A Light in the Dark, A.K. DuBoff
Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman
Dread Nation, Justina Ireland
Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien
Wow, okay, a lot of people clearly had a really different experience reading this book than I did. That's great! Different people can like different things! Yay for there being so much YA that we can all find things we like!
