The Preliminary Nebula Ballot has landed

[ellen_datlow]

The Preliminary Nebula Ballot
I think it's an embarrassment that nothing made the preliminary ballot for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. . I really feel the membership let the ball drop in this category.

But on the admirable side, the venues for the short story category are relatively diverse this year -- of the fourteen stories:

2 were published online (Clarkesworld and Helix)
1 is from an anthology (The Coyote Road)
1 is from a collection (The Guild of Xenolinguists)

magazines
4 from Asimov's
2 from Realms of Fantasy
2 from F&F
1 Analog
1 from Subterranean Magazine

Out of the four novellas:
2 are from magazines (Analog and F&SF)
1 from a collection (Dangerous Spaces)
1 from an anthology (Alien Crimes)

The nine novelettes are from the usual suspects: F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, and one anthology (he SFWA European Hall of Fame)

and one lonely script: WALL-E

Comments

[pnh.livejournal.com]

It's also striking that only one story from an online venue made the preliminary ballot.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Two, surely? "The Button Bin" and "Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky". Not that this really affects your point.

[oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com]

I'm not too sure what the point is:

2001: 2
2002: 1
2003: 1
2004: 1
2005: 1
2006: 3
2007: 3
2008: 2

I think I would be more worried if there was none . . .

Sean

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Not really. Most SFWA members don't read anything that they're not in or that their friends don't give 'em, and most don't submit to online venues.