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ellen_datlow ([personal profile] ellen_datlow) wrote2009-01-09 12:36 am
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The Preliminary Nebula Ballot has landed

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

[identity profile] deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
But what a script. <3

[identity profile] jonathanstrahan.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Am I wrong? Have they transposed the novella and novelette nominees?

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's an embarrassment that nothing made the preliminary ballot for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Well, they did nominate two YA books ... it's just that they were both put in the main category.

[identity profile] mroctober.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, it seems the people who do some of the most nominating never read much YA other than Harry Potter. Alas my SFWA membership had to lapse.

[identity profile] pnh.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's also striking that only one story from an online venue made the preliminary ballot.

[identity profile] ineti.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a fairly new member to SFWA and it still makes my head turn sideways in curiosity that the 2008 awards have exactly one novel published in 2008 and nine published in 2007.

The Coyote Road

[identity profile] lindajdunn.livejournal.com 2009-01-13 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
As a member of the Nebula short fiction jury last year, I was delighted by the quallity of the stories in The Coyote Road and I had hoped there would be another Datlow-edited anthology this year.

[identity profile] dqg-neal.livejournal.com 2009-01-15 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
This being my first year getting the SWFA Bulletin I was confused reading that section.

What seperates the list of Prelimary Nebula Ballot and Works Nominated?