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2007 Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot
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Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announces the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2007. 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 Omni Austin Hotel Downtown on April 26, 2008. Nebula Awards® Weekend registration

Novels:

    Vellum: The Book of All Hours - Duncan, Hal (Del Rey, Apr06 - Macmillan hardcover Nov05 (UK))
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Rowling, J. K. (Scholastic Press, Jul07)
    Odyssey - McDevitt, Jack (Ace, Nov06)
    Mainspring - Lake, Jay (Tor, Jun07)
    The Accidental Time Machine - Haldeman, Joe (Ace, Aug07)
    Species Imperative #3: Regeneration - Czerneda, Julie E. (DAW, May06)
    The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Chabon, Michael (HarperCollins, May07)
    The New Moon's Arms - Hopkinson, Nalo (Warner Books, Feb07)
    Blindsight - Watts, Peter (Tor, Oct06)
    Rollback - Sawyer, Robert J. (Analog, serialized in Oct06 through Jan/ Feb07 issues - Tor book, Apr07)
    The Outback Stars - McDonald, Sandra (Tor, May07)
    Strange Robby - Rosen, Selina (Meisha Merlin Publishing, Jul06)
    Ragamuffin - Buckell, Tobias (Tor, Jun07)
Novellas:
    "Kiosk" - Sterling, Bruce (F&SF, Jan07)
    "Memorare" - Wolfe, Gene (F&SF, Apr07)
    "Stars Seen Through Stone" - Shepard, Lucius (F&SF, Jul07)
    "The Helper and His Hero" - Hughes, Matt (F&SF, Feb07 & Mar07)
    "Fountain of Age" - Kress, Nancy (Asimov's, Jul07)
Novelettes:
    "The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom" - Kail, Andrea (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Galaxy Press, Sep07)
    "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" - Bernobich, Beth (Asimov's, Jun06)
    "The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" - Sherman, Delia (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Viking Juvenile, Jul07)
    "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter"r - Ryman, Geoff (F&SF, Nov06)
    "Sister of the Hedge" - Hines, Jim C. (Realms of Fantasy, Jun06)
    "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change" - Johnson, Kij (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Viking Juvenile, Jul07)
    "Things That Aren't" - Burstein, Michael A.; and Greenberger, Robert (Analog, Apr07)
    "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" - Resnick, Mike (Asimov's, Jan08)
    "Safeguard" - Kress, Nancy (Asimov's, Jan07)
    "Tonino and the Incubus" - Robinson, Peg (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Fall06 Issue #2)
    "The Children's Crusade" - Bailey, Robin Wayne (Heroes in Training, DAW, Sep07)
    "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" - Chiang, Ted (F&SF, Sep07)
    "Not of this Fold" - Shunn, William (An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Sep07)
Short Stories:
    "Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse" - Duncan, Andy (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Night Shade Books, Oct07)
    "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" - Levine, David D. (F&SF, Apr07)
    "Captive Girl" - Pelland, Jennifer (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Fall06 Issue #2)
    "Always" - Fowler, Karen Joy (Asimov's, apr/may07)
    "For Solo Cello, op. 12" - Kowal, Mary Robinette (Cosmos, Feb/Mar07)
    "The Padre, the Rabbi, and the Devil His Own Self" - Fletcher, Melanie (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Fall06 Issue #2)
    "The Story of Love" - Nazarian, Vera (Salt of the Air, Prime Books, Sep06)
Scripts:
    Children of Men - Cuaron, Alfonso & Sexton, Timothy J. and Arata, David and Fergus, Mark & Ostby, Hawk (Universal Studios, Dec06)
    The Prestige - Nolan, Christopher and Nolan, Jonathon (Newmarket Films, Oct06 based on the novel by Christopher Priest)
    Pan's Labyrinth - del Toro, Guillermo (Time/Warner, Jan07)
    The Discarded - Ellison, Harlan and Olson, Josh (Masters of Science Fiction, ABC-TV, Apr07)
    V for Vendetta - Wachowski, Larry & Wachowski, Andy (Warner Films, Mar06 Written by the Wachowski Brothers, based on the graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd and published by Vertigo/DC Comics)
    World Enough and Time - Zicree, Marc Scott and Michael Reaves, Michael (Star Trek: New Voyages, www.startreknewvoyages.com, Aug07)
    Blink - Moffat, Steven (Doctor Who, BBC/The Sci-Fi Channel, Sep07)  

Also awarded by SFWA: Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Rowling, J. K. (Scholastic Press, Jul07)
    Into the Wild - Durst, Sarah Beth (Penguin Razorbill, Jun07)
    Vintage: A Ghost Story - Berman, Steve (Haworth Positronic Press, Mar07)
    Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass- Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog - Wilce, Ysabeau S. (Harcourt, Jan07)

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.

Posted January 14, 2008

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