Brook West, Nebula Award® Report editor, announced the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards™ for 1998. The Preliminary Ballot will be mailed by January 11th, to all active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

SFWA members may nominate no more than five works in each category on the Preliminary Ballot and must return the ballot by February 20, 1999 for the ballot to be counted.

The final ballot will be mailed on March 1st. The detailed rules are available at http://www.sfwa.org/awards/rules.htm. Please note that the address for the Nebula Award® Report has changed to NAR Editor, PO Box 18481, Salt Lake City, UT 84118-0481

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 1,000 members, among them most of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy.

The Awards will be announced at the 1999 Nebula Awards® Weekend to be held in Pittsburgh, PA on April 30 - May 2, 1999.

Novels

• Asaro, Catherine: The Last Hawk (Tor, Nov97)
• Barton, William & Capobianco, Michael: Alpha Centauri (Avon, Jul97)
• Benford, Gregory: Cosm (Avon Eos, Feb98)
• Bujold, Lois McMaster: Komarr (Baen, Jun98)
• Dunn, J.R. : Days of Cain (Avon, Aug97)
• Gallagher, Dan: The Pleistocene Redemption (Cypress House, Aug97)
• Gardner, James Alan: Commitment Hour (Avon Eos, Apr98)
• Gloss, Molly: The Dazzle of Day (Tor, Jul97)
• Haldeman, Joe: Forever Peace (Ace, Oct97)
• Hopkinson, Nalo: Brown Girl in the Ring (Warner Aspect, Jul98)
• Kress, Nancy: Maximum Light (Tor, Jan98)
• McDevitt, Jack: Moonfall (HarperPrism, Apr98)
• Michaels, Melisa: Cold Iron (Roc, Aug97)
• Miller, Walter M., jr. (with Terry Bisson): Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (Bantam Spectra, Nov97)
• Moon, Elizabeth: Once A Hero (Baen, Mar97)
• Nagata, Linda: Vast (Bantam Spectra, Aug98)
• Park, Severna: Hand of Prophecy (Avon Eos, Mar98)
• Resnick, Mike: Kirinyaga (Del Rey, Apr98)
• Russell, Mary Doria: Children of God (Villard Books, Apr98)
• Sawyer, Robert J.: Frameshift (Tor, Jun97
• Shinn, Sharon: Jovah's Angel (Ace, May97)
• Stewart, Sean: The Night Watch (Ace, Nov97)
• Stirling, S.M.: Island in the Sea of Time (Roc, Mar98)
• Stith, John: Reckoning Infinity (Tor, Apr97)
• Swanwick, Michael: Jack Faust (Avon, Sep97)
• Turtledove, Harry: How Few Remain (Del Rey, Oct97)
• Waitman, Katie: The Merro Tree (Del Rey, Oct97)
• Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Bantam, Jan98)
• Wilson, Robert Charles: Darwinia (Tor, Jun98)

Novellas

• Asaro, Catherine: Aurora In Four Voices (Analog, Dec98)
• Finch, Sheila: Reading the Bones (F&SF, Jan98)
• Fintushel, Eliot: Izzy and the Father of Terror (Asimov's, Jul97)
• Gerrold, David: Jumping Off the Planet (SF Age, Jan98)
• Hopkins, Brian A.: Cold At Heart (StarLance Publications, James B. King, Ed., Dec97)
• Landis, Geoffrey A.: Ecopoiesis (SF Age, May97)
• Sarafin, James: In the Furnace of the Night (Asimov's, May97)

Novelettes

• Bell, M. Shayne: The Moon Girl (Asimov's, Jun98)
• Berberick, Nancy Varian: Tal's Tale (Adventures In Sword and Sorcery, Apr97 <#4>)
• Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn: Content With the Mysterious (Analog, Oct97)
• Feeley, Gregory: The Truest Chill (SF Age, Nov97)
• Landis, Geoffrey A.: Approaching Perimelasma (Asimov's, Jan98)
• Levinson, Paul: Little Differences (Analog, Jun98)
• Levinson, Paul: The Orchard (Analog, Feb98)
• McGarry, Mark J.: The Mercy Gate (F&SF, Mar98)
• Nordley, G. David: Crossing Chao Meng Fu (Analog, Dec97)
• Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: Echea (Asimov's, Jul98)
• Thrower, B.J.: Noodle You, Noodle Me (Asimov's, Dec97)
• Williams, Walter Jon: Lethe (Asimov's, Sep97)
• Yolen, Jane: Lost Girls (Realms of Fantasy, Feb98)
• York, Pat: Lustman (Realms of Fantasy, Feb98)

Short Stories

• Burstein, Michael A.: Cosmic Corkscrew (Analog, Jun98)
• Daniel, Kate: Kaleidoscope (Realms of Fantasy, Dec97)
• Fowler, Karen Joy: Standing Room Only (Asimov's, Aug97)
• Goldstein, Lisa: Fortune and Misfortune (Asimov's, May97)
• Gormley, Adrienne: Children of Tears (Alternate Tyrants, Resnick and Greenberg, Ed., Tor, Apr97)
• Kroupa, Susan J.: Walter's Christmas-Night Musik (Realms ofFantasy, Dec97)
• Landis, Geoffrey A.: Winter Fire (Asimov's, Aug97)
• Lee, Mary Soon: Monstrosity (F&SF, Aug97)
• Levinson, Paul: Advantage, Bellarmine (Analog, Jan98)
• Park, Severna: Tiger, Tiger (Realms of Fantasy, Apr98)
• Rogers, Bruce Holland: Thirteen Ways to Water (Black Cats and Broken Mirrors, Martin Greenberg and John Helfers, Ed., DAW, Jun98)
• Sawyer, Robert J.: The Hand You're Dealt (Free Space, Brad
• Linaweaver & Edward Kramer, Ed., Tor, Jul97)
• Stone Jr., Del: Waiting For Victor (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jun97)
• Suarez-Beard, Beverly: Silver Apples (Realms of Fantasy, Dec97)
• Van Pelt, Jim: The Big One (Analog, Sep97)
• Webster, Bud: The Ballad of Kansas McGriff (Hobo Times, Fall97)
• Wentworth, K.D.: Tall One (F&SF, Apr98)