Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announced the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2002.

The ballot will be mailed to all active SFWA members by January 4, 2003. Each member may nominate no more than five works in each category on the Preliminary Ballot and must return the ballot by February 6 to be counted..

The final ballot will be mailed February 15. 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 2002 Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the Radisson Plaza - Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 19th.

There are 56 works on the preliminary ballot: 26 novels, 8 novellas, 9 novelettes, and 13 short stories. 3 scripts have qualified for the Final Nebula Ballot.

Private links to most of the nominated works are available to members only at http://www.sfwa.org/private/nar/fiction/. Links for public are available at http://www.sfwa.org/fiction/NebPrelim2002.html.

Novels

• Barnes, Steven: Lion's Blood (Warner Aspect, Feb02)
• Brin, David: Kiln People (Tor, Jan02)
• Bujold, Lois McMaster: The Curse of Chalion (Avon Eos, Aug01)
• Czerneda, Julie E.: In the Company of Others (DAW, Jun01)
• Gaiman, Neil: American Gods (William Morrow & Co., Jul01)
• Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Other Wind (Harcourt Brace, Sep01)
• Levinson, Paul: The Consciousness Plague (Tor, Feb02)
• McGarry, Terry: Illumination (Tor, Aug01)
• McHugh, Maureen F.: Nekropolis (Avon Eos, Aug01)
• McKillip, Patricia: Ombria in Shadow (Ace, Jan02)
• Metzger, Robert A.: Picoverse (Ace, Mar02)
• Mieville, China: Perdido Street Station (Del Rey, Mar01)
• Mitchell, Syne: Technogenesis (Roc, Jan02)
• Murphy, Pat: Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell (Tor, Nov01)
• Nazarian, Vera: Dreams of the Compass Rose (Wildside Press, May02)
• O'Leary, Patrick: The Impossible Bird (Tor, Jan02)
• Oltion, Jerry: The Getaway Special (Tor, Dec01)
• Sanders, William: J. (iPublish.com, Aug01)
• Sargent, Pamela: Child of Venus (Avon Eos, May01)
• Sawyer, Robert J.: Hominids (Analog, Apr02; Tor, May 2002)
• Schmidt, Stanley: Argonaut (Tor, Jul02)
• Spencer, Wen: Alien Taste (Roc, Jul01)
• Stirling, S.M.: The Peshawar Lancers (ROC/NAL, Jan02)
• Swanwick, Michael: Bones of the Earth (Avon Eos, Mar02)
• Tiedemann, Mark W.: Compass Reach (Meisha Merlin Publishing, Jun01)
• Wharton, Ken: Divine Intervention (Ace, Nov01)

Novella

• Burstein, Michael A.; and Tourtellotte, Shane: Bug Out! (Analog, Aug01)
• Castro, Adam-Troy: Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's (Analog, Jun01)
• Chwedyk, Richard: Bronte's Egg (F&SF, Aug02)
• Duncan, Andy: The Chief Designer (Asimov's, Jun01)
• Finlay, Charles Coleman: The Political Officer (F&SF, Apr02)
• Forde, Pat: In Spirit (Analog, Sep02)
• Sparhawk, Bud: Magic's Price (Analog, Mar01)

Novelette

• Bowes, Richard: The Ferryman's Wife (F&SF, May01)
• Burns, Stephen L.: Look Away (Analog, May02)
• Chiang, Ted: Hell is the Absence of God (Starlight 3, Tor, Jul01)
• Frost, Gregory: Madonna of the Maquiladora (Asimov's, May02)
• Moscoe, Mike: The Job Interview (Analog, May02)
• Sanders, William: When This World Is All on Fire (Asimov's, Nov01)
• Spencer, William Browning: The Essayist in the Wilderness (F&SF, May02)
• Steele, Allen: The Days Between (Asimov's, Mar01)
• Stross, Charles: Lobsters (Asimov's, Jun01)
• Tourtellotte, Shane: The Return of Spring (Analog, Nov01)

Short Story

• Bell, M. Shayne: Refugees from Nulongwe (SCI FICTION, May01)
• Bunch, Chris: Mirror (Absolute Magnitude, May01)
• Burstein, Michael A.: Spaceships (Analog, Jun01)
• Emshwiller, Carol: Creature (F&SF, Nov01)
• Ford, Jeffrey: Creation (F&SF, May02)
• Gilligan, ElizaBeth: Iron Joan (Black Gate, Feb02)
• Lindholm, Megan: Cut (Asimov's, May01)
• McDevitt, Jack: Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Artemis Magazine, Aug01)
• Richards, Joel: The Gods Abandon Alcibiades (Asimov's, Feb01)
• Rogers, Bruce Holland: The Djinn Who Lives Between Night and Day (Realms of Fantasy, Apr02)
• Shunn, William: The Veil Beyond the Veil (Realms of Fantasy, Apr02)
• Summers, Kevin G.: Isolation Ward 4 (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds IV, Pocket, May01)
• Swanwick, Michael: The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Asimov's, Nov01)

Scripts

• Elliott, Ted and Rossio, Terry : Shrek (Dreamworks, May01)
• Walsh, Fran & Boyens, Philippa & Jackson, Peter: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema, Dec01)
• Whedon, Joss: The Musical: Once More With Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nov01)