Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announced the Final Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2003.

The ballot ballot will be mailed February 15. The detailed rules are available at http://www.sfwa.org/awards/rules.htm.

The Awards will be announced at the 2003 Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the Westin Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA on Saturday, April 17th.

Links to most of the nominated works are available at http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2004/nebfinal2003.html.

Novels

• Diplomatic Immunity -- Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen, May02)
• The Mount -- Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press, Jun02)
• Light Music -- Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eos, Jun02)
• The Salt Roads -- Nalo Hopkinson (Warner, Nov03)
• Chindi -- Jack McDevitt (Ace, Jul02)
• The Speed of Dark -- Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine, Jan03)

Novellas

• The Potter of Bones -- Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, Sep02)
• The Empress of Mars -- Kage Baker (Asimov's, Jul03)
• Coraline -- Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Jul02)
• Stories for Men -- John Kessel (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2002)
• Breathmoss -- Ian MacLeod (Asimov's, May02)

Novelettes

• The Mask of the Rex -- Richard Bowes (F&SF, May02)
• Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs -- Adam-Troy Castro (Imaginings, ed. Keith R. A. DeCandido, Pocket Books 2003)
• 0wnz0red -- Cory Doctorow (Salon.com, Aug02)
• The Empire of Ice Cream -- Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction, Feb 26, 2003)
• The Wages of Syntax -- Ray Vukcevich (Sci Fiction, Oct 16, 2002)

Short Stories

• Knapsack Poems -- Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, May02)
• The Brief History of the Dead -- Kevin Brockmeier (The New Yorker, Sep 8, 2003
• Goodbye to All That -- Harlan Ellison (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage, Apr03; Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next New Millenium, ed. Marleen S. Barr, Wesleyan University Press, Sep03)
• Grandma -- Carol Emshwiller (F&SF, Mar02)
• What I Didn't See -- Karen Joy Fowler (Sci Fiction, Jul10, 2002)
• Lambing Season -- Molly Gloss (Asimov's, Jul02)
• The Last of the O-Forms -- James Van Pelt (Asimov's, Sep02)

Scripts

• Finding Nemo -- Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (Pixar/Disney, May03)
• Minority Report -- Frank, Scott and Jon Cohen (Dreamworks, Jul02)
• Where No Fan Has Gone Before -- David A. Goodman, (Futurama, Apr02)
• Spirited Away -- Hayao Miyazaki and Cindy Davis Hewitt & Donald H. Hewitt, (English screenplay) (Studio Ghibli  and Walt Disney Pictures, Sep02 )
• The Lord of the Rings:  The Two Towers -- Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema, Dec02 )

The Preliminary ballot is at http://www.sfwa.org/news/nebpre03.htm.

Posted February 12, 2004