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Winners of the 2003 Nebula Awards were announced at a banquet Saturday evening, April 17, in Seattle, Washington.

NOVEL
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine)

NOVELLA
Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

NOVELETTE
"The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction, 26 Feb 2003)

SHORT STORY
"What I Didn't See", Karen Joy Fowler (Sci Fiction 10 Jul 2002)

SCRIPT
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema; based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien)

Other awards, as previously announced, were presented: the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award was given to Robert Silverberg, and the Service to SFWA Awards were presented to Ann Crispin and Michael Capobianco.

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Noreascon Four, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Boston, September 2-6, 2004, has released nominations for this year's Hugo Awards, and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

NOVEL
Blind Lake, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Humans, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor)

Ilium, Dan Simmons (Eos)

Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)

Singularity Sky, Charles Stross (Ace)


NOVELLA
"The Cookie Monster", Vernor Vinge (Analog Oct 2003)

"The Empress of Mars", Kage Baker (Asimov's Jul 2003)

"The Green Leopard Plague", Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)

"Just Like the Ones We Used to Know", Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 2003)

"Walk in Silence", Catherine Asaro (Analog Apr 2003)

NOVELETTE
"Bernardo's House", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 2003)

"The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction 02.26.03)

"Hexagons", Robert Reed (Asimov's Jul 2003)

"Into the Gardens of Sweet Night", Jay Lake (Writers of the Future XIX)

"Legions in Time", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr 2003)

"Nightfall", Charles Stross (Asimov's Apr 2003)

SHORT STORY
"Four Short Novels", Joe Haldeman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2003)

"Paying it Forward", Michael A. Burstein (Analog Sep 2003)

"Robots Don't Cry", Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jul 2003)

"A Study in Emerald", Neil Gaiman (Shadows Over Baker Street)

"The Tale of the Golden Eagle", David D. Levine (F&SF Jun 2003)

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Out of this batch, "A Study in Emerald" is the only one I've read. It's clever and fun, but I doubt it'd win.
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
The coolest thing about the link was that Gollum's acceptance speech from the 2003 MTV awards was nominated for the Dramatic Forms: Short Presentation catagory.

I've seen the show Firefly mentioned here a few times, and it was nominated twice in the same catigory as Gollum...

Kwea
 

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Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
 
"Empire of Ice Cream" was really good. Someone posted a link to it about a year ago, but I seem to have lost it.
 

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Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
 
You can read a lot of the shorter-length nominees and winners at this site . It also has links to a TON of other stories online, and it's updated regularly. I read it all the time.
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Wow! I just read that "Empire of Ice Cream" -- and I didn't realize that there really IS a human condition known as Synesthesia, or what it entails. After reading the story, I read more about Synesthesia on the web. I really think there is one member of my family that possibly has a degree of this condition.

The story was good, too, by the way.

*wonders if I should start a new thread asking others what they know of Synesthesia*

Farmgirl
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
I've read everything that was published in Asimov's-- and if Asimov's ever rejects anything of mine because it's too explicit, I'm going to shove "Bernardo's House," up their noses.


 

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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
 
FG - The poster Synesthesia actually has the disease...
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
I had no idea!

of course, I'm not sure I would call it a disease....

Farmgirl
 

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Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
Neil Gaiman's Nebula acceptance speech, as read by Harlan Ellison:

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp

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here's the speech that Harlan found himself reading...

NEBULA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, to be read by Harlan Ellison...

From Neil Gaiman

If it wins.

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Neil wanted me to read the following.

First of all, I'm incredibly grateful that the SFWA voters gave Coraline an award for best novella. While it's the shortest book I've ever written, it took the longest to write -- an average of 3,000 words a year over ten years, which makes it a wonder it was ever finished at all, or that it was the same book at the end that it was at the beginning.

Secondly I'd like to thank Harlan for accepting the award on my behalf. The knowledge that the person reading the acceptance speech will actually say whatever I write here is deeply intimidating. Think about it: for the first time in my life, possibly for the first time in anyone's life, I can make Harlan Ellison say, literally, anything. And he will. Because it's my acceptance speech. He's not going to extemporise here, or suddenly start telling a joke about a duck trying to buy a condom or something. He has to read what I've written. I could make him proclaim his love of the Republican party, or reveal his membership in Al Quaida. I could write down the words "I, Harlan Ellison, am actually a science fiction writer" in my awards speech, and he'd have to say them. I wouldn't actually do any of this, though, because Harlan's revenge would be swift in coming and incredibly funny whenever he told people about it. Well, incredibly funny for everyone except me, anyway. I'd still be in Hibernia, pursued by enraged lascars and apothecaries.

Coraline was published as a children's book. A Nebula award for best novella bespeaks a willingness on the part of the voters to look in places where you might not expect them to look, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. I wish I could be there tonight. It means a lot to me. Thank you.

I wish I could have seen Harlan deliver it (but then if I was there to see it, I would have had to make my own speech).

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