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Nebula Award Winners Announced

posted by martyb on Friday May 26 2017, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the read-'em-and...-beep? dept.

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The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.[1]

(Some might argue the Hugo Awards are the more prestigious awards in science fiction, as they are international awards. But, voting for a Hugo only requires membership in the World Science Fiction Society, which anyone can join. The 2017 Hugos will be presented at the 75th Worldcon, Worldcon 75, in Helsinki, Finland, on August 12, 2017.)

The SFWA just announced this year's Nebula awards, honoring works published in 2016. This year's winners are:

Best Novel: All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders

Best Novella: Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire

Best Novelette: "The Long Fall Up", by William Ledbetter

Best Short Story: "Seasons of Glass and Iron", by Amal El-Mohtar

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Arrival, Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Screenplay by Eric Heisserer

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: Arabella of Mars, by David D. Levine

The nominees for these awards are listed at the above SFWA link.

[1] Wikipedia.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @07:07AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @07:07AM (#515870)

    Only three ways to say "not a large book"? Surely there are more.

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday May 26 2017, @07:50AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday May 26 2017, @07:50AM (#515879) Journal

    Flash fiction (also known as short, short stories, micro fiction, or postcard fiction) are stories that take pride in their extreme brevity: some works of flash fiction have only 53 words, while others have 1,000. These works used to be referred to as "short short stories" until around the turn of the century (the year 2000), when the term "flash fiction" became the norm.

    -- https://letterpile.com/writing/Difference-Between-A-Short-Story-Novelette-Novella-And-A-Novel [letterpile.com]

  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday May 26 2017, @12:45PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday May 26 2017, @12:45PM (#515934) Journal

    Yes, there are very many ways.

    Hovercraft, mongoose, embryo, traffic warden, God, navy, Tuesday, eel, bohemian earspoon. These things are also not a large book. I could go on.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday May 28 2017, @05:08PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday May 28 2017, @05:08PM (#516803) Homepage Journal

    They have specific meanings. A story over 40,000 words is a novel, from there to 17,500 is a novella, there to 7500 is a novelette, under that is a short story. Flash Fiction is generally anything under 1000 words, although F&FS magazine considers anything under 2000 words to be flash.

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    mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org