SF Bookworm: Collecting Science Fiction Books

[Via The SFWA News]

Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announces the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2006. SFWA members may nominate no more than five works in each category.

The final ballot will be mailed in early March.

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 Awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the New York Marriott Financial Center May 11-13, 2007.

Novels:

From the Files of the Time Rangers – Richard Bowes (Golden Gryphon Press, Sep05)
Crystal Rain – Tobias Buckell (Tor, Feb06)
The Girl in the Glass – Jeffrey Ford (Dark Alley, Aug05)
The Privilege of the Sword – Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra, Jul06)
Counting Heads – David Marusek (Tor, Oct05)
To Crush the Moon – Wil McCarthy (Bantam Spectra, May05)
Seeker – Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov05)
A Princess of Roumania – Paul Park (Tor, Aug05)
Remains – Mark W Tiedemann (BenBella Books, Jul05)
Spin – Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, Mar05)

Novellas:

“Sanctuary” – Michael A. Burstein (Analog, Sep05)
Burn – James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon Publications, Dec05)
“The Walls of the Universe” – Paul Melko (Asimov’s, Apr/May06)
“Inclination” – William Shunn (Asimov’s, Apr/May06)

Novelettes:

“The Language of Moths” – Chris Barzak (Realms of Fantasy, Apr05)
“Two Hearts” – Peter S. Beagle (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
“A Key to the Illuminated Heretic” – Alyx M. Dellamonica (Alternate Generals III, Harry Turtledove, Ed., Baen, Apr05)
“Second Person, Present Tense” – Daryl Gregory (Asimov’s, Sep05)
“Do Neanderthals Know?” – Robert J Howe (Analog, Dec05)
“Little Faces” – Vonda McIntyre (SCI FICTION, 23 Feb05)
“Journey into the Kingdom” – M. Rickert (F&SF, May06)
“Walpurgis Afternoon” – Delia Sherman (F&SF, Dec05)

Short Stories:

“Helen Remembers the Stork Club” – Esther M. Friesner (F&SF, Nov05)
“Pip and the Fairies” – Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons, 3 Oct05)
“Echo” – Elizabeth Hand (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
“Mahmoud’s Wives” – Janis Ian (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly #1, WS & LWE, Ed., Sum06)
“Henry James, This One’s For You” – Jack McDevitt (Subterranean #2, Nov05)
“The Woman in Schrodinger’s Wave Equations” – Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF, Aug05)
“Anyway” – M. Rickert (SCI FICTION, 23 Aug05)

Scripts:

Howl’s Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (Studio Ghibli and Walt Disney Pictures, U.S. Premier 10 Jun05. Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones.)
The Girl in the Fireplace – Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, BBC/The Sci-Fi Channel, Oct06 (broadcast 10 Oct06))
Batman Begins – Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., released 17 Jun05)

Also awarded by SFWA: Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:

Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness – Scott Westerfeld (Eos, Mar05)
Magic or Madness – Justine Larbalestier (Penguin Razorbill, May05)
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld (Penguin Razorbill, Sep05)

The Norton Jury may add up to three additional works to the final ballot. In the Nebula Award catagories, juries may add one work to the final ballot.

Online versions of some of the works are available to the public. Other works are only available to SFWA Members.

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