{"id":14847,"date":"2014-02-25T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/02\/25\/14847.html"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:45:20","slug":"nebula-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/02\/25\/nebula-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebula nominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SFWA has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2014\/02\/2013-nebula-nominees-announced\/\">this year's Nebula nominees<\/a>, and I'm very pleased with them. Congratulations to all the nominees! (And double congratulations to Sofia and Alaya for each having two pieces on the ballot!)<\/p>\n<p>I think about half of the works that I nominated are on the ballot, though I seem to have failed to keep records of what I nominated. (In the new system, Associate members like me can nominate, but can't vote on the final ballot.) I'm especially pleased to see <cite>Ancillary Justice<\/cite> (the only one of the nominated novels that I've read so far) and <cite>When We Wake<\/cite> (on the Norton ballot); I still hope to blog about both of those sometime soon, and I'll be nominating both for the Hugo. Sadly, Mary Anne's <cite>The Stars Change<\/cite> and Carmen Maria Machado's story &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130114\/inventory-f.shtml\">Inventory<\/a>&rdquo; (my favorite of the 2013 <cite>SH<\/cite> stories I've read so far, though I've only read about half of them) didn't make the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite>, I'm delighted to see two <cite>SH<\/cite> stories nominated in the same year. This is the first time that's ever happened. The last time there was even one <cite>SH<\/cite> story on the Nebula ballot was in 2007, and that was for a story published in 2005. In fact, there have only been a total of three previous <cite>SH<\/cite> stories ever nominated: Tim's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020204\/little_gods.shtml\">Little Gods<\/a>,&rdquo; Greg's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2003\/20031222\/december.shtml\">In the Late December<\/a>,&rdquo; and Dora's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2005\/20051003\/goss-f.shtml\">Pip and the Fairies<\/a>.&rdquo; So having two stories on the ballot this year is awesome&mdash;nice work, editors and authors! (And Sofia's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130107\/selkie-f.shtml\">Selkie Stories Are for Losers<\/a>&rdquo; was another of my favorite <cite>SH<\/cite> stories from last year. I haven't yet read the other nominated <cite>SH<\/cite> story, Sarah Pinsker's &rdquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130701\/injoy-f.shtml\">In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind<\/a>,&rdquo; but am looking forward to doing so.)<\/p>\n<p>A few other assorted thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Very surprised that <cite>Frozen<\/cite> didn't make the Bradbury ballot.<\/li>\n  <li>Author gender:\n<ul>\n  <li>Novel: 6\/8, 75% women<\/li>\n  <li>Novella: 4.5\/6, 75% women<\/li>\n  <li>Novelette: 3\/6, 50% women<\/li>\n  <li>Short Story: 3\/5, 60% women<\/li>\n  <li>All Nebula-per-se categories combined: 16.5\/25, 66% women<\/li>\n  <li>Norton: 6\/7, 86% women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n  <\/li>\n  <li>The fact that Chip Delany is getting the Grand Master Award isn't news, but I'm still very happy about it.<\/li>\n  <li>On a personal note, I know (to varying degrees) something like 15 of the authors on the ballot; my inner teen fanboy still gets all excited about that. People I know! On the Nebula ballot!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFWA has announced this year&#8217;s Nebula nominees, and I&#8217;m very pleased with them. Congratulations to all the nominees! (And double&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,19,28,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-books","category-short-stories","category-strange-horizons","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}