Articles related to "Nebula Award"

British SF is said to be in the middle of a golden age. How true is this? Statistics on the proportion of 'Years Best' choices and award nominations may help answer this.

Burn is the Nebula Award winning novella by James Patrick Kelly from Tachyon Books; an Asimov's regular, Kelly's magnificent novella is set on the colony planet Walden.

Winner of the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novel, Camouflage is a gritty new-future thriller that's as lean and as taut as a marathon-runner.

This Year's Best Fantasy of 1981 is the last such to be edited by the late Terry Carr, but with several award winning stories, ends the series on a high.

The SFWA's choice has classics by Harlan Ellison, Samuel R. Delany and Fritz Leiber; Anne McCaffrey's first ever Pern visit and Michael Moorcock's definitive Easter story

The 34th edition of the anthology series featured title changes, but little else new; as Benford is a scientist, his choices inevitably run to SF rather than fantasy.

One of the difficulties with reviewing a complete series is that some volumes will be weaker than others. So it was with the 2001 volume.

After the low-point of the Nebula Awards anthologies with the 2001 volume, the series began to slowly improve in quality, starting with Kim Stanley Robinson's choices.

Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 edited by Nancy Kress, includes Jack Williamson's The Ultimate Earth, Kelly Link's winning novellette, and an ewxcellent Mike Resnick story.

Vonda McIntyre edited Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 into the best of the series for a decade, with stories by Richard Chwedyk, Megan Lindholm, Katherine Maclean and others

The 2004 winners and runners-up from the annual Nebula Awards presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America, edited this year by Jack Dann

Gardner Dozois edited Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 with an extract from Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Lost Souls and Anne McCaffrey's original story The Ship Who Sang.

The SFWA's choices include an extract from Camouflage by Joe Haldeman, stories by Nancy Kress, Robert J. Sawyer, two by Kelly Link, and a 'lost' Harlan Ellison novella.

Former Analog and Omni supremo Bova edits the SFWA's choices for the best stories of 2006 and picks Elizabeth Hand, Peter S. Beagle, James Patrick Kelly and others.

Here's the list of nominees for 2006 Nebula awards for novel, novella, novelette, short, script, and the Andre Norton Award for YA.

Neil Gaiman's Coraline is perhaps the only novella that has won the Hugo and Nebula awards to have been published separately as a novel.

Gibson's cyberpunk classic was probably the most acclaimed debut novel of all time, and influenced a whole generation, from other writers to advertising campaigns

The latest award winning novels and stories voted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America including Joe Haldeman, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt and Nancy Kress

Best ever Year's Best SF anthology.

The SFWA created the Nebula Award; its work has benefited writers; and its website is a mine of information on speculative-fiction for fans, with scores of reading lists

Fiction from Sara Genge, R. Neube, Holly Phillips, Benjamin Crowell and Harry Turtledove, and an early contender for the 2009 Nebula Award for best novella by Nancy Kress

Clearly influenced by Marilyn Hacker, a successor to Frank Herbert's Dune, the story of poet Rydra Wong tied with Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon for the SFWA's prize.

Connie Willis, author of The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, is one of science fiction's most decorated authors with six Nebula Awards and ten Hugos.

Frank Hervert's Dune is perhaps the greatest SF novel of all time, according to many long-term readers of the genre.

Slaughterhouse Five is the greatest novel by World War II veteran and American writer Kurt Vonnegut, but what is the book about?

Fiction from Tom Purdom, Chris Willrich & Eric Brown, James Patrick Kelly's silver jubilee story and columns from Robert Silverberg and editor Sheila Williams.

The definitive collection of Clarke's work including 'The Sentinel' -the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey, 'The Nine Billion Names of God, and the Hugo-winning 'The Star.'

Ender's Game by OSC is slated to be made into a movie in the next year. How well will the suspenseful, psychologically intriguing book translate to the silver screen?

Fantasy from Jim Aiken, Jerry Oltion, Michael Meddor, Carol Emshwiller, Albert E. Cowdrey, Charles Coleman Finlay & Hugo and Nebula award-winner Barry B. Longyear.

Serialized in Analog, reprinted in Harrison & Aldiss and Terry Carr's Year's Best Sci-Fi, it was rejected by seventeen publishers before St. Martin's Press published it.

Stories from Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, David D. Levine, Michael Swanwick, Greg Egan, Bruce McAllister, Ian MacDonald, Mary Rosenblum, Stephen Baxter and Robert Reed

For over fifty years with novels like Hothouse and HARM, and short stories including one filmed as AI, Aldiss has entertained, confounded and infuriated SF readers

Catherine Asaro's The Quantum Rose is one of her Skolian Empire novels, which, like The Last Hawk appeared in Analog magazine, and is a leading examplar of Romantic SF.

The late Terry Carr's selection of the best SF stories of 1985

Robert J. Sawyer is, according to MacLean's: Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine, "among the most successful Canadian authors ever." Hominids is the first volume of a trilogy.

Awards provide a measure of quality within speculative fiction, and enable readers to filter out inferior fiction, as popularity is an inadequate measure of quality.

Five novellas

New short fiction from Nancy Kress, James Patrick Kelly, Ian R. Macleod, Lawrence Persson, Forrest Aguirre, and a debut for Felicity Shoulders. Book Reviews by Peter Heck

If you're new to writing science fiction, here are a few books about the history of the genre, its craft, and the science underlying it to get you started.

Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, Coraline is a stop-animation film directed by Henry Selick. But beware: it's spookier than the average animated movie...

Check out a couple of featurettes for Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman's Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher. Movie comes to theatres February 6, 2009.

Check out the teaser trailer for Henry Selick's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Laika Entertainment movie comes to theatres February 6, 2009.

From the author of Blood Music and Vitals, Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio opens with a pair of Neanderthal bodies, and examines what the junk DNA in our bodies may be for...

Interzone is celebrating it's 25th anniversary - again. And rightly so; they have plenty to celebrate. The magazine has groomed a whole generation of British writers.

Best known for his addicting fantasy fiction and adult comics, bestselling author Neil Gaiman is one of the top names in today's publishing industry.

Lambda award-winner Nicola Griffith talks about her new novel and returning to the SF genre.

Nicola's views on literary merit and the scary world we live in.

If you're serious about writing science fiction, you need to read the professional markets, the trade journals, and science and technology magazines.

The tale of space captain Lorq von Ray and his rivals Prince and Ruby is myth laden, freighted down with both Grail literature and pulp sci-fi imagery alike.

Award-winning science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer talks about acquiring the rights to his novel Flashforward, as well as what he's currently working on.