Science Fiction Awards Watch

Nebula Ballot Corrections

March 2nd, 2009 by Editors

Via the official Nebula Award web site (and Mary Robinette Kowal on Twitter):

Upon a procedural review, we discovered an error in the final Nebula tally. Two works that should be on the final ballot were not listed: the novelette “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” – James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s, Feb08) and “Mars: A Traveler’s Guide” – Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, Jan08) in short stories. No other changes have been made to the final ballot. We apologize for the error and have made changes to the procedures to keep this sort of mistake from happening again.

Oh dear. That’s embarrassing.

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4 Responses to “Nebula Ballot Corrections”

  1. on 02 Mar 2009 at 7:44 am1 PurpleRanger

    Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

  2. on 02 Mar 2009 at 8:00 am2 Cheryl’s Mewsings » Blog Archive » But What Can Twitter Do?

    [...] the news of the corrections to the Nebula ballot came up, and I immediately switched to SFAW to blog about it. This is useful to [...]

  3. on 02 Mar 2009 at 8:08 am3 Mary Robinette Kowal

    I’m just glad we caught it before the ballots were printed. And yes, embarrassing doesn’t even BEGIN to describe it.

  4. on 02 Mar 2009 at 8:11 am4 Cheryl

    It is the sort of thing that gives me nightmares.

    Sadly it is also the sort of thing that provides succor to the conspiracy theorists. I’m sure we’ll be hearing from them.