The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Of America just annunciate theNebula Awardsfinalists , and there are a couple of surprising omissions .
I ’m kind of surprised Neal Stephenson did n’t get a nod in the novel category , not to mention Iain Banks ’ Matter . But I ’m thrilled for Kelley Eskridge getting nominated in the novelette class . Also , the more I ponder , the more surprised I am that Hunger Games did n’t make it in the young - grownup family .
novel

fiddling Brother – Cory Doctorow ( Tor , Apr08 )
Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin ( Harcourt , Sep07 )
Cauldron – Jack McDevitt ( Ace , Nov07 )

Brasyl – Ian McDonald ( Pyr , May07 )
Making Money – Terry Pratchett ( Harper , Sep07 )
world power – David J. Schwartz ( Three Rivers Press , Jun08 )

Novellas
“ The Spacetime Pool ” – Catherine Asaro ( Analog , Mar08 )
“ Dark Heaven ” – Gregory Benford ( Alien Crimes , Resnick , Mike , Ed . , SFBC , Jan07 )

“ grave distance ” – Kelley Eskridge ( Dangerous Space , Aqueduct Press , Jun07 )
“ The Political Prisoner ” – Charles Coleman Finlay ( F&SF , Aug08 )
“ The Duke in His Castle ” – Vera Nazarian ( Norilana Books , Jun08 )

Novelettes
“ If Angels Fight ” – Richard Bowes ( F&SF , Feb08 )
“ Dark Rooms ” – Lisa Goldstein ( Asimov ’s , Oct / Nov 07 )

“ Pride and Prometheus ” – John Kessel ( F&SF , Jan08 )
“ Night tip ” – Mary Rosenblum ( Lace and Blade , ed . Deborah J. Ross , Norilana Books , Feb08 )
“ Baby Doll ” – Johanna Sinisalo ( The SFWA European Hall of Fame , James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow , Ed . , Tor , Jun07 )

“ Kaleidoscope ” – K.D. Wentworth ( F&SF , May07 )
Short Stories
“ The Button Bin ” – Mike Allen ( Helix : A Speculative Fiction Quarterly , Oct07 )

“ The Dreaming breaking wind ” – Jeffrey Ford ( The Coyote route : Trickster Tales , Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling , Ed . , Viking , Jul07 )
“ Trophy Wives ” – Nina Kiriki Hoffman ( Fellowship Fantastic , ed . Greenberg and Hughes , Daw Jan08 )
“ 26 Monkeys , Also the Abyss ” – Kij Johnson ( Asimov ’s , Jul08 )

“ The Tomb Wife ” – Gwyneth Jones ( F&SF , Aug07 )
“ Do n’t Stop ” – James Patrick Kelly ( Asimov ’s , Jun07 )
Scripts

The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan ; Christopher Nolan , Christopher , David S. Goyer ( Warner Bros. , Jul08 )
“ WALL - eastward ” Screenplay by Andrew Stanton , Jim Reardon , Original story by Andrew Stanton , Pete Docter ( Walt Disney June 2008 )
“ The Shrine ” – Brad Wright ( Stargate Atlantis , Aug08 )

Andre Norton Award For Young Adult Fiction
Graceling – Kristin Cashore ( Harcourt , Oct08 )
Lamplighter – D.M. Cornish ( Monster Blood Tattoo , Book 2 , Putnam Juvenile , May08 ) )

Savvy – Ingrid Law ( Dial , May08 )
The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson ( Henry Holt and Company , Apr08 )
Flora ’s Dare : How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary , Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror , and seek to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom ( Despite Being Confined to Her Room ) – Ysabeau S. Wilce ( Harcourt , Sep08 )

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