Nebula Award Nominees Announced

Written By: UK Conventions (News Team)
Published: 23rd February, 2004 10:47 PM

The final ballot for the Nebulas, as awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, is as follows. The winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on 17 April in Seattle.

BEST NOVEL
Lois McMaster Bujold, DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY (Baen)
Carol Emshwiller, THE MOUNT (Small Beer Press)
Kathleen Ann Goonan, LIGHT MUSIC (Eos)
Nalo Hopkinson, THE SALT ROADS (Warner)
Jack McDevitt, CHINDI (Ace)
Elizabeth Moon, THE SPEED OF DARK (Ballantine)

BEST NOVELLA
Eleanor Arnason, "The Potter of Bones" (ASIMOV'S Sept 2002)
Kage Baker, "The Empress of Mars" (ASIMOV'S July 2003)
Neil Gaiman, CORALINE (HarperCollins)
John Kessel, "Stories for Men" (ASIMOV'S Oct/Nov 2002)
Ian R. MacLeod, "Breathmoss" (ASIMOV'S May 2002)

BEST NOVELETTE
Richard Bowes, "The Mask of the Rex" (F & SF May 2002)
Adam-Troy Castro, "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" (IMAGININGS)
Cory Doctorow, "0wnz0red" (SALON August 2002)
Jeffrey Ford, "The Empire of Ice Cream" (SCIFICTION Feb 2003)
Ray Vukcevich, "The Wages of Syntax" (SCIFICTION Oct 2002)

BEST SHORT STORY
Eleanor Arnason, "Knapsack Poems" (ASIMOV'S May 2002)
Kevin Brockheimer, "The Brief History of the Dead" (NEW YORKER 8 Sept 2003)
Harlan Ellison, "Goodbye to All That" (MCSWEENEY'S MAMMOTH TREASURY OF THRILLING TALES)
Carol Emshwiller, "Grandma" (F & SF March 2002)
Karen Joy Fowler, "What I Didn't See" (SCIFICTION July 2002)
Molly Gloss, "Lambing Season" (ASIMOV'S July 2002)
James Van Pelt, "The Last of the O-Forms" (ASIMOV'S Sept 2002)

BEST SCRIPT
Scott Frank & Jon Cohen, MINORITY REPORT
David A. Goodman, FUTURAMA: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt & Donald H. Hewitt, SPIRITED AWAY
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson & David Reynolds, FINDING NEMO
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS