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Nebula Nomination Period has opened
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
In January of 2009, SFWA adopted a new set of Nebula Rules. This year is their first in effect so we thought we’d review the process for those who are curious.
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From November 15th – February 15th, Active and Associate members may nominate up to 5 works in each category of the Nebulas, the Bradbury and the Andre Norton Award.
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Members may change their ballot at any point during the nomination period.
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Only works published between July 1, 2008 and December 31st, 2009 are eligible.
- Works may not be nominated by their authors, editors, publishers, or agents, by spouses or domestic partners of their authors, or by any other party with a monetary interest in the work.
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The 6 items in each category that receive the most votes go on the ballot. (The Norton Jury may add up to 3 works on the Norton ballot.)
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By March 1st, the final ballot is sent to Active members only.
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The Nebula ceremony is in May
What is eligible for a Nebula?
Works published between July 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009 are eligible in the following categories.
a. Short Story: less than 7,500 words;
b. Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words;
c. Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 words
d. Novel: 40,000 words or more.
( At the author’s request, a novella-length work published individually, rather than as a part of a collection, anthology, or other collective work, shall appear in the novel category. )
This is the confusing bit. As part of the transition rules, works which received at least five (5) recommendations under the previous Nebula Awards® rules and were published after July 1, 2008, but didn’t make the 2008 Preliminary Ballot get to have those nominations added to their total for this year. Members who recommended these works last year will not have their total number of allowed nominations reduced, but they may not nominate these works a second time.
Works which received less than five (5) recommendations under the previous Nebula rules and were published after July 1, 2008, may be nominated but their nominations don’t carry over from last year.
According to the last published NAR, the following works and members are affected by this.
Novelette
6 Kosmatka, Ted: Divining Light (Asimov’s, Aug08) DWGoldman, STourtellotte, EJStone, NKress, MMcGarry, CDeLancey
Short Story
5 Burstein, Michael A.: I Remember the Future (I Remember the Future, Apex Publications, Nov08 <Single-author collection>) JPelland, CArdai, MResnick, PLevinson, RSawyer
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“Decisions” by Michael A. Burstein
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
“Decisions” by Michael A. Burstein
June 2009, The Chronic Rift Podcast
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I Remember the Future
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Burstein’s storytelling melds classic and modern science fiction in stories that focus on human interaction. These Hugo and Nebula nominees are presented with new afterwords.
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