Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

The final ballot for the 2004 Nebula awards has been announced. The complete list is below. As usual I haven’t read most of the novels, novellas, novelletes or even short stories. I usually try to read them before the next year’s ballot though.

2004 Final Nebula Ballot

Novels –

Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos, Oct03)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Cory Doctorow (Tor, Feb03)
Omega — Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov03)
Cloud Atlas : A Novel — David Mitchell (Sceptre, Jan 2004)
Perfect Circle — Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press, Jun04)
The Knight — Gene Wolfe (Tor, Jan04)

Novellas –

Walk in Silence — Catherine Asaro (Analog, Apr03)
The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes — Adam-Troy Castro (F&SF, Jul03)
The Cookie Monster — Vernor Vinge (Analog, Oct03)
The Green Leopard Plague — Walter Jon Williams (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2003)
Just Like the Ones We Used to Know — Connie Willis (Asimov’s, Dec03)

Novelettes –

Zora and the Zombie — Andy Duncan (SCI FICTION, 2/4/04)
Basement Magic — Ellen Klages (F&SF, May03)
The Voluntary State — Christopher Rowe (SCI FICTION, May04)
Dry Bones — William Sanders (Asimov’s, May03)
The Gladiator’s War: A Dialogue — Lois Tilton (Asimov’s, Jun04)

Short Stories –

Coming to Terms — Eileen Gunn (Stable Strategies and Others, Tachyon Publications, Sep 2004)
The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Anne — Mike Moscoe (Analog, Nov04)
Travels With my Cats — Mike Resnick (Asimov’s, Feb04)
Embracing-The-New — Benjamin Rosenbaum (Asimov’s, Jan04)
In the Late December — Greg van Eekhout (Strange Horizons, 12/22/03)
Aloha — Ken Wharton (Analog, Jun03)

Scripts –

The Incredibles — Brad Bird (Pixar, Nov04)
The Butterfly Effect — J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress (New Line Cinema, Jan 2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry (Anonymus Content/Focus Features, First aired 3/18/04)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema, First aired 17 Dec 03. Based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien)

Eoghann Irving is amongst other things the creator and Editor of Solar Flare. He has a life long interest in all forms of science fiction and fantasy and a pressing need to share this interest with anyone who will listen. Find out more at his personal website eoghann.com..

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