Nebula Awards preliminary ballot announced

The Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2006 have been announced. If the Hugo Awards, voted on my members of the World Science Fiction Convention each year, are science fiction’s equivalent of the People’s Choice Awards (which are on TV tonight, I just learned. Who knew? Oh, I suppose people who watch any TV other than the preschool channel Treehouse, plus Corner Gas and Doctor Who on CBC, may have known…but how many of those could there be…now where was I…oh, right) then the Nebula Awards are the equivalent of the Academy Awards. Active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America can nominate up to five works in each category, and only active members (of which there are currently more than 1,400, including me! Yay!) can vote.

The Awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the New York Marriott Financial Center May 11-13, 2007.

And the nominees are:

Novels:

From the Files of the Time Rangers – Richard Bowes (Golden Gryphon Press, Sep05)
Crystal Rain – Tobias Buckell (Tor, Feb06)
The Girl in the Glass – Jeffrey Ford (Dark Alley, Aug05)
The Privilege of the Sword – Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra, Jul06)
Counting Heads – David Marusek (Tor, Oct05)
To Crush the Moon – Wil McCarthy (Bantam Spectra, May05)
Seeker – Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov05)
A Princess of Roumania – Paul Park (Tor, Aug05)
Remains – Mark W Tiedemann (BenBella Books, Jul05)
Spin – Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, Mar05)

Novellas:

“Sanctuary” – Michael A. Burstein (Analog, Sep05)
Burn – James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon Publications, Dec05)
“The Walls of the Universe” – Paul Melko (Asimov’s, Apr/May06)
“Inclination” – William Shunn (Asimov’s, Apr/May06)

Novelettes:

“The Language of Moths” – Chris Barzak (Realms of Fantasy, Apr05)
“Two Hearts” – Peter S. Beagle (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
“A Key to the Illuminated Heretic” – Alyx M. Dellamonica (Alternate Generals III, Harry Turtledove, Ed., Baen, Apr05)
“Second Person, Present Tense” – Daryl Gregory (Asimov’s, Sep05)
“Do Neanderthals Know?” – Robert J Howe (Analog, Dec05)
“Little Faces” – Vonda McIntyre (SCI FICTION, 23 Feb05)
“Journey into the Kingdom” – M. Rickert (F&SF, May06)
“Walpurgis Afternoon” – Delia Sherman (F&SF, Dec05)

Short Stories:

“Helen Remembers the Stork Club” – Esther M. Friesner (F&SF, Nov05)
“Pip and the Fairies” – Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons, 3 Oct05)
“Echo” – Elizabeth Hand (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
“Mahmoud’s Wives” – Janis Ian (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly #1, WS & LWE, Ed., Sum06)
“Henry James, This One’s For You” – Jack McDevitt (Subterranean #2, Nov05)
“The Woman in Schrodinger’s Wave Equations” – Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF, Aug05)
“Anyway” – M. Rickert (SCI FICTION, 23 Aug05)

Scripts:

Howl’s Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (Studio Ghibli and Walt Disney Pictures, U.S. Premier 10 Jun05. Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones.)
The Girl in the Fireplace – Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, BBC/The Sci-Fi Channel, Oct06 (broadcast 10 Oct06))
Batman Begins – Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., released 17 Jun05)

The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy is also awarded by SFWA; its preliminary ballot includes:

Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness – Scott Westerfeld (Eos, Mar05)
Magic or Madness – Justine Larbalestier (Penguin Razorbill, May05)
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld (Penguin Razorbill, Sep05)

The Norton Jury may add up to three additional works to the final ballot. In the Nebula Award catagories, juries may add one work to the final ballot.

Online versions of some of the works are available to the public. Other works are only available to SFWA Members.