Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announced the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2001.

 SFWA members may nominate no more than five works in each category on the Preliminary Ballot and must return the ballot by February 23, 2002 for the ballot to be counted.

 The final ballot will be mailed on March 7. 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 Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, April 27th.
 
 

Novels

• Asaro, Catherine: The Quantum Rose (Tor, Dec00 [serialized version (Analog,Aug99) withdrawn by the author in favor of book version])
• Carroll, Jonathan: The Wooden Sea (Tor, Feb01)
• Carver, Jeffrey A.: Eternity's End (Tor, Dec00
• Gardner, James Alan: Hunted (Eos, Jul00)
• Kooistra, Jeffery D.: Dykstra's War, (Baen, Dec00)
• Landis, Geoffrey A.: Mars Crossing (Tor, Dec00)
• Martin, George R.R.: A Storm of Swords (Bantam Spectra, Oct00)
• McCarthy, Wil: The Collapsium (Del Rey, Aug00)
• McDevitt, Jack: Deepsix ((Eos, Mar01 [First Eos special printing Sep00])
• McKillip, Patricia A.: The Tower at Stony Wood (Ace, May00)
• Nasir, Jamil: Distance Haze (Bantam Spectra, Mar00)
• Pullman, Philip: The Amber Spyglass (Knopf, Oct00)
• Resnick, Mike: The Outpost (Tor, May01)
• Sawyer, Robert J: Calculating God (Tor, Jun00)
• Slonczewski, Joan: Brain Plague (Tor, Aug00)
• Tilton, Lois: Written in Venom (Wildside Press, Jun00)
• Willis, Connie: Passage (Bantam, Apr01)
• Wilson, Robert Charles: The Chronoliths (Tor, Aug01)

Novellas

• Anderson, Kevin J: Identity Crisis (Analog, Sep00)
• Asaro, Catherine: A Roll of the Dice (Analog, Aug00)
•  Bowes, Richard: From the Files of the Time Rangers (SciFi.Com Sep00)
• Clough, Brenda: May Be Some Time (Analog, Apr01)
• Dann, Jack: The Diamond Pit (F&SF, Jun01)
• Feeley, Gregory: Spirit of the Place (iPublish.com, Mar01)
• Lee, Sharon and Miller, Steve: Changeling (Absolute Magnitude, Aug00 [#14,Summer 2000 issue)
• Shepard, Lucius: Radiant Green Star (Asimov's, Aug00)
• Steele, Allen: Stealing Alabama (Asimov's, Jan01)
• Williamson, Jack: The Ultimate Earth (Analog, Dec00)

Novelettes

• Casil, Amy Sterling: To Kiss the Star (F&SF, Feb01)
• Cassutt, Michael: More Adventures on Other Planets (SciFi.Com (aka SCIFICTION), Jan01 [Jan 10, 2001 issue)
• Chwedyk, Richard: The Measure of All Things (F&SF, Jan01)
• Duncan, Andy: Lincoln in Frogmore (Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, GoldenGryphon Press, Oct00)
• Duncan, Andy: The Pottawatomie Giant (SciFi.Com (aka SCI FICTION, Nov00)
• Kelly, James Patrick: Undone (Asimov's, Jun01)
• Morrow, James: Auspicious Eggs (F&SF, Nov00 [Oct/Nov00)
• Pendleton, Michaelene: The Great Economy of the Saurian Mode (Asimov's,Jul00)
• Shunn, William: Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites (Vanishing Acts,Ellen Datlow, Ed., Tor, Jul00)

Short Stories

• Bowes, Richard: The Quicksilver Kid (SciFi.Com (aka SCI FICTION), Jan01(1/17/01)])
• Burstein, Michael A.: Kaddish for the Last Survivor (Analog, Nov00)
• Park, Severna: The Cure for Everything (SciFi.Com (aka SCI FICTION, Jun00 (6/22/00))
• Resnick, Mike: The Elephants on Neptune (Asimov's, May00)
• Sanders, William: Creatures (The Age of Wonders, Jeffrey Dwight, Ed.,sff.net, Sep00)
• Sanders, William: Looking for Rhonda Honda (The Chick is in the Mail,Esther Friesner, Ed., Baen, Oct00)
• Smith, Sherwood: Mom and Dad at the Home Front (Realms of Fantasy, Aug00; also in David Hartwell'sYear's Best Fantasy)
• Thrower, B.J.: Original Child (Extremes: Fantasy & Horror From the Endsof the Earth (CD anthology), Brian A. Hopkins, Ed., Lone Wolf Publications,Apr00)
• Zebrowski, George: Augie (Analog, Jan01)
• Zebrowski, George: Wound the Wind (Analog, May01)

Scripts

• Coen, Ethan and Coen, Joel: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Touchstone/Universal,Dec00 [Released 12/22/11. Based on the epic poem "The Odyssey" by Homer]
• DeSanto, Tom & Singer, Bryan (story); Hayter, David (screenplay): X-Men(20th Century Fox, Jul00 [Based on the characters created by Stan Lee andMarvel Comics])
• Schamus, James; Tsai, Kuo Jung; and Wang, Hui-Ling: Crouching Tiger, HiddenDragon (Sony Pictures Classics, Dec00 [From the book by Du Lu Wang])
• Whedon, Joss: The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Feb01 [First airdate2/27/01. Based on the characters created by Joss Whedon])