The SFWA has details of the nominees from the final ballot for this year’s Nebula Awards; on the shortlist for Best Novel are:
The Privilege of the Sword – Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra, Jul06)
Seeker – Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov05)
The Girl in the Glass – Jeffrey Ford (Dark Alley, Aug05)
Farthing – Jo Walton (Tor Books, Aug06)
From the Files of the Time Rangers – Richard Bowes (Golden Gryphon Press, Sep05)
To Crush the Moon – Wil McCarthy (Bantam Spectra, May05)
Christopher Nolan and David S Goyer are in the running in the Scripts category for Batman Returns, Steve Moffat flys the flag for Brit telefantasy with a nom for The Girl in the Fireplace episode from season two of the new Doctor Who (still impressing audiences well beyond it’s British heartland viewers I am glad to see), Michael Taylor for the Unfinished Business episode of the new Battlestar Galactica and Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt for the fantastic Studio Ghibli offering Howl’s Moving Castle, based on Dianna Wynne Jones novel. The full range of categories and those nominated in them (including the increasingly important Young Adult category which this year includes Scott Westerfeld with two nominations) can be found on the SFWA site. here
Wed, Feb 28, 2007
Awards, Books