Frank Herbert's Dune
won the first "best novel" Nebula in 1965.
This year's winners will
receive their statuettes at a banquet at New York's Crowne Plaza Hotel.
As part of the ceremony,
Brian Aldiss, longtime SF luminary
and author of such works as The Billion Year Spree and "Super-Toys
Last All Summer Long" -- the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's posthumous
film A.I. -- will be inducted into the ranks of Science Fiction
Grand Masters.
Daniel
Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon, will be named Author
Emeritus.
Best Novel nominees:
Octavia
E. Butler, Parable
of the Talents
Ken MacLeod, The
Cassini Division
Maureen
F. McHugh, Mission Child
George
R. R. Martin, A
Clash of Kings
Sean
Stewart, Mockingbird
Vernor
Vinge, A
Deepness in the Sky
Best Novella nominees:
Michael
A. Burstein, "Reality
Check"
Adam-Troy Castro &
Jerry Oltion, "The
Astronaut From Wyoming "
Ted
Chiang, "Story
of Your Life"
L.
Timmel Duchamp, "Living
Trust"
Andy
Duncan, "The
Executioners' Guild"
David
Marusek, "The
Wedding Album"
Best Novelette nominees:
Phyllis
Eisenstein, "The
Island in the Lake"
Esther
M. Friesner, "How
to Make Unicorn Pie"
Brian
A. Hopkins, "Five
Days in April"
Jack
McDevitt & Stanley
Schmidt, "Good
Intentions"
Bruce
Sterling, "Taklamakan"
Mary
A. Turzillo, "Mars
is No Place for Children"
Best Short Story nominees:
Constance Ash, "Flower
Kiss"
Bruce
Holland Rogers, "The
Dead Boy at Your Window"
Frances Sherwood, "Basil
the Dog"
Michael Swanwick,
"Ancient Engines"
Michael Swanwick,
"Radiant Doors"
Leslie
What, "The
Cost of Doing Business"
Best Script nominees:
Robert J. Avrech,
The Devil's Arithmetic (based on Jane
Yolen's novel)
Brad Bird & Tim McCanlies,
The Iron
Giant (based on Ted Hughes' novel)
John Millerman, The
Uranus Experiment: Part 2
M. Night Shyamalan,
The Sixth Sense
Larry & Andy Wachowski,
The
Matrix
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