Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announced the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2000.

Novels

• The Veiled Web by Catherine Asaro (Bantam Spectra, Dec99)
• When We Were Real by William Barton (Warner Aspect, Jun99)
• Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (Ballantine Del Rey, Sep99)
• A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen, Aug99)
• Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein (Tor, Jun99)
• Crescent City Rhapsody by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Avon Eos, Mar00)
• Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Aspect, Mar00)
• The Silk Code by Paul Levinson (Tor, Oct99)
• The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley (Ace, Jun99)
• Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt (HarperPrism, Feb00)
• The Annunciate by Severna Park (Avon Eos, Nov99)
• Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer (Tor, Jun99)
• Galveston by Sean Stewart (Ace, Mar00)
• Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling (Penguin/Roc, May99)
• Cave of Stars by George Zebrowski (HarperPrism, Aug99)

Novellas

• Fortitude by Andy Duncan (Realms of Fantasy, Jun99 Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon, October 2000)>)
• Ninety Percent of Everything by Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (F&SF, Sep99)
• Hunting the Snark by Mike Resnick (Asimov's, Dec99)
• Crocodile Rock by Lucius Shepard (F&SF, Oct/Nov99)
• Argonautica by Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's, Oct/Nov99)

(For information only -- all 5 qualified novellas are on the Y2K Final Nebula Ballot)

Novelettes

• Stellar Harvest by Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, Apr99)
• The Window by Judith Berman (Asimov's, Aug99)
• Chromosome Circus by Amy Sterling Casil (F&SF, Jan00)
• A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Gardner Dozois (Asimov's, Oct/Nov99)
• The Chop Girl, Ian MacLeod (Asimov's, Dec99)
• A Day's Work On the Moon by Mike Moscoe (Analog, Jul/Aug00)
• How the Highland People Came To Be by Bruce Holland Rogers (Realms of Fantasy, Aug99)
• Generation Gap by Stanley Schmidt (Artemis Magazine #1, Spring 2000)
• Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams (Not of Woman Born, Constance Ash, Ed., Roc, Mar99)

Short Stories

• macs by Terry Bisson (F&SF, Oct/Nov99)
• Stealing the Sun by Ron Collins (Analog, Oct99)
• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant by Jeffrey Ford (F&SF, Feb00)
• Hooking Up by Michael Kandel (F&SF, Aug99)
• Painted Houses by Melisa Michaels (The Age of Reason, Kurt Roth, Ed., SFF Net, Sep99)
• Rossia Moya by Vera Nazarian (The Age of Reason, Kurt Roth, Ed., SFF Net, Sep99)
• The Golem by Severna Park (Black Heart, Ivory Bones, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Eds., Avon, Mar00)
• Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick (Asimov's, Oct/Nov99)
• Dirty Little Cowards by William Sanders (Asimov's, Jun99)
• The Shoulders of Giants by Robert J. Sawyer (Star Colonies, Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, Ed., DAW, Jun00)
• Scherzo With Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's, Jul99)
• Imagine Jimmy by Rick Wilber (F&SF, Apr99)
• You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine by Pat York (Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Ed., Avon, Mar99)

Scripts

• South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady (Paramount Pictures, Jul99)
• The Green Mile by Frank Darabont based on the novel by Stephen King (Castle Rock/Warner Brothers, Dec99)
• Galaxy Quest by Robert Gordon and David Howard (Dreamworks, Dec99)
• Being John Malkovich by Charlie Kaufman (Propaganda Films, Oct99)
• Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki and Neil Gaiman (Walt Disney Productions, Nov99 (Japanese version: "Mononoke Hime," Studio Ghibli, 1997)
• Dogma by Kevin Smith (View Askew Productions, Nov99)

SFWA members may nominate no more than five works in each category on the Preliminary Ballot and must return the ballot by February 23, 2001 for the ballot to be counted.

The final ballot will be mailed on March 9. The detailed rules are available at http://www.sfwa.org/awards/rules.htm.

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 2001 Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 27-29, 2001.

Members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America may review some these works online in the private section of www.sfwa.org.

Posted January 14, 2000