Science Fiction Awards Watch

SFWA has just released the list of nominees for this year’s Nebula Awards. Here they are:

Novels

• Little Brother – Cory Doctorow (Tor, Apr08)
• Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, Sep07)
• Cauldron – Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov07)
• Brasyl – Ian McDonald (Pyr, May07)
• Making Money – Terry Pratchett (Harper, Sep07)
• Superpowers – David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, Jun08)

Novellas

• “The Spacetime Pool” – Catherine Asaro (Analog, Mar08)
• “Dark Heaven” – Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jan07)
• “Dangerous Space” – Kelley Eskridge (Dangerous Space, Aquaduct Press, Jun07)
• “The Political Prisoner” – Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF, Aug08)
• “The Duke in His Castle” – Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, Jun08)

Novelettes

• “If Angels Fight” – Richard Bowes (F&SF, Feb08)
• “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” – James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s, Feb08)
• “Dark Rooms” – Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 07)
• “Pride and Prometheus” – John Kessel (F&SF, Jan08)
• “Night Wind” – Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08)
• “Baby Doll” – Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )
• “Kaleidoscope” – K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May07)

Short Stories

• “The Button Bin” – Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07)
• “The Dreaming Wind” – Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking, Jul07)
• “Trophy Wives” – Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” – Kij Johnson (Asimov’s, Jul08)
• “The Tomb Wife” – Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, Aug07)
• “Don’t Stop” – James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, Jun07)
• “Mars: A Traveler’s Guide” – Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, Jan08)

Scripts

• The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan; Christopher Nolan, Christopher, David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., Jul08)
• “WALL-E” Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
• “The Shrine” – Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)

Norton

• Graceling – Kristin Cashore (Harcourt, Oct08)
• Lamplighter – D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
• Savvy – Ingrid Law (Dial, May08)
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt and Company, Apr08)
• 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) – Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, Sep08)

The winners will be announced at the Nebula Award Banquet which this year will be held on the weekend April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles.

Update: listing edited to include the two late additions.