015 Nebula awards have been released.

From IO9    The 2015 Nebula awards have been released.  There  were a healthy mix of  print and digital.  What's more the awards were dominated by women this year. 

from the article

The science fiction world has had its share of drama with the Hugo Awards as various slates have worked aggressively to push against the growing numbers of women and people of color appearing on award ballots. The Nebula Awards have demonstrated, for two years in a row, that science fiction and fantasy literature remains a strong, inclusive body of literature.

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Novel

    Uprooted, Naomi Novik  
    Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon 
    The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin   
    Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
    The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu
    Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen   
    Updraft, Fran Wilde 

Novella

    Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
    Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato   
    The Bone Swans of Amandale, C.S.E. Cooney  
    The New Mother, Eugene Fischer
    The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik
    Waters of Versailles’’, Kelly Robson



Novelette
  
    Our Lady of the Open Road, Sarah Pinsker
    Rattlesnakes and Men, Michael Bishop
    And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead, Brooke Bolander
    Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, Rose Lemberg
    The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society, Henry Lien
    The Deepwater Bride, Tamsyn Muir


Short Story

    Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers, Alyssa Wong
    Madeleine, Amal El-Mohtar
    Cat Pictures Please, Naomi Kritzer
    Damage, David D. Levine
    When Your Child Strays From God, Sam J. Miller
    Today I Am Paul, Martin L. Shoemaker

New Stars, in Time, Will Distroy Their Own Nursery

Check out this Space.com short video narrated by David Sky Brodie, featuring the cosmic gas cloud Gum 15 which  lies 3,000 light-years from Earth.   The nebula is playing nurse-maid to several super-massive stars that, when they enter their "young adult" stage will begin to tear Gum 15 apart.   Plus due to the fact that super massive stars have very short lives that when they exhaust their fuel, they will go supernova and the resulting explosion will take Gum 15 with them.

This new data comes from representatives with the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which released  the    film and photo, from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile  July 2.

"Hand of God" Nebula

A new photo released by NASA, captured by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. 

The image was created  as  spinning material interacts with magnetic fields, it glows with X-rays.  This of course is not the first time the nebula has be photographed.  Previously  it had been detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

From the article:

• The hand-shaped object is a pulsar wind nebula that was the result of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion 17,000 light-years away.

                   

Click HERE for the complete NASA article

2011 Nebula Awards Winners

IO9 has posted a notice of the winners of the 2011 Nebula Awards. Here is a short list is the winners.


NOVEL: Among Others, by Jo Walton

NOVELLA: "The Man Who Bridged the Mist," Kij Johnson

NOVELLETTE: "What We Found," Geoff Ryman

SHORT STORY: "The Paper Menagerie," Ken Liu

A complete article can be read here

2011 Nebula Awards nominees announced

The Science Fiction Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards,


Novel

Among Others, Jo Walton
Embassytown, China Miéville
Firebird, Jack McDevitt
God's War, Kameron Hurley
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin


Novella

Kiss Me Twice -  Mary Robinette Kowal
Silently and Very Fast - Catherynne M. Valente
The Ice Owl - Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Man Who Bridged the Mist - Kij Johnson
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary -  Ken Liu
With Unclean Hands -  Adam-Troy Castro


Novelette

Fields of Gold -  Rachel Swirsky
Ray of Light -  Brad R. Torgersen
Sauerkraut Station -  Ferrett Steinmetz
Six Months, Three Days - Charlie Jane Anders
The Migratory Pattern of Dancers -  Katherine Sparrow
The Old Equations -  Jake Kerr
What We Found -  Geoff Ryman


Short Story


Her Husband's Hands -  Adam-Troy Castro
Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son - Tom Crosshill
Movement - Nancy Fulda
Shipbirth -  Aliette de Bodard
The Axiom of Choice -  David W. Goldman
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees -  E. Lily Yu
The Paper Menagerie -  Ken Liu

Article from Boing Boing / written by Cory Doctorow

Hubble Discovers Dazzling 'Necklace' Nebula!

You would think I would get tired after all these years of telling you how amazing Hubble is. But the truth is that Hubble keeps one upping itself with even more amazing astro-science and photographs. Case in point, the strange and amazing Necklace Nebula! What we see in the picture here is a composite from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 which captured the glow of hydrogen (here in blue), oxygen (the green glowing elements of the photo) and nitrogen (which when excited glows red). Hubble discovered this planetary nebula, which is the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The bright ring, (measuring 12 trillion miles wide) dotted with bright clumps of gas and it is what caused these clumps to exist along with the complete glowing ring of gas and what causes the whole ring structure to exist and glow.

The core of the nebula shows only one bright orbit, but is in fact 2 stars. Instead of saying again what the NASA site has so well described - here from the article:

• A pair of stars orbiting close together produced the nebula, also called PN G054.2-03.4. About 10,000 years ago one of the aging stars ballooned to the point where it engulfed its companion star. The smaller star continued orbiting inside its larger companion, increasing the giant’s rotation rate.
  
• The bloated companion star spun so fast that a large part of its gaseous envelope expanded into space. Due to centrifugal force, most of the gas escaped along the star’s equator, producing a ring. The embedded bright knots are dense gas clumps in the ring.
• The pair is so close, only a few million miles apart, they appear as one bright dot in the center. The stars are furiously whirling around each other, completing an orbit in a little more than a day.

Did you catch that? One of the companions went of main sequence and ballooned to such a degree that it's neighbor is orbiting INSIDE the other star! As the smaller companion spins the bigger faster it throws out material along the equator hence causing the "ring". Even now after all this, both continue to orbit each other, but so fast that a complete orbit is a little bit more than 1 Earth day! Is astronomy a wild science or what!!!!

You can read the complete article here

2010 Nebula Award Winners Announced

the 2010 Nebula Awards have been announced!

The Nebula for Best Short Story this year is a tie!!! The co-winners are:

"Ponies" by Kij Johnson
"How Interesting: A Tiny Man" by Harlan Ellison

The Nebula for Best Novelette

"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone

The Nebula for Best Novella

"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" by Rachel Swirsky

The Nebula for Best Novel

Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

The complete award article can be found on the SFScope site here

This Year's Nebula Winners!

Just read the news in Boing Boing! Congrats to all the winners this year!

SHORT STORY: "Spar" by Kij Johnson

NOVELETTE: Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster

NOVELLA: The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

NOVEL: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot

Here is the 2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot and a great list it is indeed! How about “Divining Light,” one of the nominations for the novelette division by Ted Kosmatka! wow, that would be my choice, but it would be a hard pick. We read that story on episodes 145 to 147 of Beam Me Up and even reading it, freaked me out. Plus Paolo's The Windup Girl ! Whooooooooohooooooo great mix this year!

Short Story

* “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela,” Saladin Ahmed
* “I Remember the Future,” Michael A. Burstein
* “Non-Zero Probabilities,” N. K. Jemisin
* “Spar,” Kij Johnson
* “Going Deep,” James Patrick Kelly
* “Bridesicle,” Will McIntosh

Novelette

* “The Gambler,” Paolo Bacigalupi
* “Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage,” Michael Bishop
* “I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said,” Richard Bowes
* “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,” Eugie Foster
* “Divining Light,” Ted Kosmatka
* “A Memory of Wind,” Rachel Swirsky

Novella

* The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker
* “Arkfall,” Carolyn Ives Gilman
* “Act One,” Nancy Kress
* Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
* “Sublimation Angels,” Jason Sanford
* The God Engines, John Scalzi

Novel

* The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
* The Love We Share Without Knowing, Christopher Barzak
* Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman
* The City & The City, China Miéville
* Boneshaker, Cherie Priest
* Finch, Jeff VanderMeer

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet the evening of May 15 2010.

John Kessel reads Nebula Award winning "Pride And Prometheus"

Yeah, I know.....that address is freereads! JP Kelly's site...You're right! Jim is hosting John's reading! Here is what he writes in Freereads:

• Here is Part One of the Nebula Award winning "Pride And Prometheus" written and read by my pal John Kessel who has graciously agreed to share his work with my Free Reads listeners. Check out John's website

Run time for part 1 is 29:06 and if you download it the size is 13mb

Nebula Award winners for 2008 announced

Here are the 2008 Nebula Award Winners straight from Boing Boing

Best Novel: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Novella: "The Spacetime Pool" by Catherine Asaro

Best Novelette: "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel

Best Short Story: "Trophy Wives" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Two stories added to the Nebula Final list

I know I am a little behind on this but I as usual got major confused when I started asking Alan Gardner if I could read The Ray Gun. I knew it was a nominated story but I could not find it on my list so I started to look for newer lists. Seems some didn't make the original list that SHOULD have and here is the two additions. Mars is in the short story category and The ray gun in the novelette

"The Ray Gun: A Love Story" - Gardner, James Alan "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" - Nestvold, Ruth

Here is the updated list

Nebula Awards 2008 Final Ballot

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Nebula Awards^® 2008 Final Ballot
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SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2008 Nebula Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles, California. For more information on the awards and the Nebulas Weekend, please see http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/nebulaweekend.

Novels

Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory
Powers - Le Guin, Ursula K.
Cauldron - McDevitt, Jack
Brasyl - McDonald, Ian
Making Money - Pratchett, Terry
Superpowers - Schwartz, David J.

Novellas
The Spacetime Pool - Asaro, Catherine
Dark Heaven - Benford, Gregory
Dangerous Space - Eskridge, Kelley
The Political Prisoner - Finlay, Charles Coleman
The Duke in His Castle - Nazarian, Vera

Novelettes
If Angels Fight - Bowes, Richard
The Ray Gun: A Love Story - Gardner, James Alan
Dark Rooms - Goldstein, Lisa
Pride and Prometheus - Kessel, John
Night Wind - Rosenblum, Mary
Baby Doll - Sinisalo, Johanna
Kaleidoscope - Wentworth, K.D.

Short Stories
The Button Bin - Allen, Mike
The Dreaming Wind - Ford, Jeffrey
Trophy Wives - Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss - Johnson, Kij
The Tomb Wife - Jones, Gwyneth
Don't Stop - Kelly, James Patrick
Mars: A Traveler's Guide - Nestvold, Ruth

Click on the article title for complete listing

James Patrick Kelly's "Don't Stop up for Nebula

I just listened to Jim Kelly read his story Don't Stop on his Free Read's page.

Jim writes about this story:

• Here is "Don't Stop," a short story first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in June of 2007. It is currently on the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Award, given each year by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

This is a very engaging story in proper Kelly style and I suspect will do very well in this year's Nebula season.

Take a trip over to Free Reads and take a listen and see if you agree!

Catherine Asaro's "The Spacetime Pool" available online

More and more authors are coming to realize that if they want to reach the biggest audience possible, they have to consider adding the internet/web to their strategy. As the prelim listing for the Nebula awards makes it's rounds I see several author that aren't afraid to wade in early. Take for example Catherine Asaro. I was just reading in SFScope's blog that she has release her novella The Spacetime Pool on her Facebook page. It is well worth searching it out. My only complaint is that the story was released first in chapters as kind of a "here it is, if you like it, buy it" idea. Nothing wrong with that....the problem is that the rest of the story has been released in the same manner....and in slightly different places on her page. I know....its a BS complaint, however if I am a voting member for Nebula or Hugo awards, I just would reather sit back and read the offering in one go and not have to search for parts. But that is me.

Oh and if anyone finds it listed differently let me know and I will updat asap.

<- Catherine Asaros' facebook page ->

**UPDATE!**

Catherine said... Thank you for the post about the novella. I much appreciate it. You can indeed now find the full text in one chunk, at

http://www.analogsf.com/nebulas09/TheSpacetimepool.shtml

Nebula Awards draft

As reported, here are the draft Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards for 2008. This is a rough list, but gives you an idea of what the award season is going to look like.

According to Brook West, the final ballot will be mailed in early March.For those of you wondering what the Nebulas are vs Hugos Here is the description of who votes and for what as concerns the Nebula. (the Hugos are fan votes)

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 1,400 members, among them most of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. The Nebula Awards Weekend will be held April 24-26

Novels: Daniel Abraham, : A Betrayal in Winter
Chris Barzak, : One for Sorrow
Emma Bull, : Territory
Cory Doctorow, : Little Brother
Kathleen Ann Goonan, : In War Times
Ursula K Le Guin, .: Powers
Jack McDevitt, : Cauldron
Ian McDonald: Brasyl
Terry Pratchett: Making Money
Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind

Novellas:
Catherine Asaro: The Spacetime Pool
Gregory Benford: Dark Heaven
Kelley Eskridge: Dangerous Space
Charles Coleman Finlay: The Political Prisoner

Novelettes:
Rochard Bowes: If Angels Fight
Michael F. Flynn : Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo
James Alan Gardner: The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
Lisa Goldstein: Dark Rooms
John Kessel: Pride and Prometheus
Ted Kosmatka: The Prophet of Flores
David Moles: Finisterra
Johanna Sinisalo: Baby Doll
K.D. Wentworth: Kaleidoscope

Short Stories:
Mike Allen: The Button Bin
Michael Cassutt: Skull Valley
Sheila Finch: Stranger Than Imagination Can
Jeffrey Ford: The Dreaming Wind
Samantha Henderson: Bottles
M.K. Hobson.: The Hotel Astarte
Kij Johnson: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
Gwyneth Jones: The Tomb Wife (read on BMU 110)
James Patrick Kelly: Don't Stop
Brian Plante: The Astronaut
Mary Rickert: Holiday
Ken Scholes: Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky
James Van Pelt: How Music Begins (read on BMU 116)

<- SFWA via SF Watch ->

Oh where oh where did my white dwarf go?

The more I study astronomy (playing fast and loose with that term, study, better to say avid reader I suspect) the more I am aware that there are stranger things in the universe than conceived in my own solar system. (oh yeah, goin to literary hell for that. yep yep). So what even participated this astronomical epiphany? An article in Science Daily concerning a white dwarf that should be present in the core of a planetary nebula and isn't to be found. What can be observed at the core is a pair of tightly bound stars that whirl around each other every five days, neither one of which is a white dwarf. (wait for it) Both stars also appear to be rotating more slowly than expected; they would be expected to always be facing the same sides toward each other, but they do not. The remaing two stars were born as a family of three, with the A stars circling each other tightly and a more massive star orbiting further out. This allowed room for the massive star to evolve to become a red giant, which only then engulfed the pair of A stars. Trapped inside the red giant in what astronomers call a "common envelope,"

Can you imagine that? Three stars close enough to orbit each other, so close in fact that when the most massive one goes off main sequence, the remaining stars are inside its' atmosphere!

The Science Daily article goes on to explain how this dynamic may have ejected the more massive star when it collapsed into a white dwarf, that in itself is every bit as interesting. Click here for complete article

2008 Nebula awards announced

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced the winners of their annual Nebula Awards. The winners are:

Best Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Best Novella: "Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress

Best Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang

Best Short Story: "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler

Nebula Finalists Announced

Finalists have been announced for this year's Nebula Awards, which recognize superior achievement in science fiction and fantasy writing. The award is presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Winners will be announced at the 2008 Nebula Awards Weekend, April 25-27, in Austin, Texas.

Novel: Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell, The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman, The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson, Odyssey by Jack McDevitt

Novella: "Awakening" by Judith Berman, "The Helper and His Hero" by Matthew Hughes, "Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress, "Stars Seen Through Stone" by Lucius Shepard, "Kiosk" by Bruce Sterling, "Memorare" by Gene Wolfe

Novelette: "The Children's Crusade" by Robin Wayne Bailey; "Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone" by Terry Bramlett; "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang; "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" by Kij Johnson; "Safeguard" by Nancy Kress; "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" by Geoff Ryman; "The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" by Delia Sherman

Short Story: "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" by Andy Duncan, "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler, "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" by David D. Levine, "The Story of Love" by Vera Nazarian, "Captive Girl" by Jennifer Pelland, "Pride" by Mary Turzillo

2007 Nebula winners!!!!

Whoooooooooooohooooooo here are the Nebulas for 2007!!!!!
Nebula and Norton Award Winners

Novel: Seeker, by Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov05)

Novella: "Burn," by James Patrick Kelly(Tachyon Dec05)(podcast version)

Novelette: "Two Hearts," by Peter S. Beagle (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)

Short Story: "Echo," by Elizabeth Hand (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)(BMU #44)