The Bujold Nexus

February 2004

Subject: SFWA Online Update #185: Nebula Nominations
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2004

SFWA ONLINE UPDATE >>> No. 185 <<< 2/12/2004

An electronic publication of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
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* Nebula Nominations

The Final Ballot for the 2003 Nebula Awards has been announced.  Ballots
will be mailed within the next few days.  The nominees are:

Best Novel:
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen, May02)
The Mount, Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press, http://www.lcrw.net, Jun02)
Light Music, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eos, Jun02)
The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner, November 2003)
Chindi, Jack McDevitt (Ace, Jul02)
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine, Jan03)

Best Novella
"Potter of Bones", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, Sep02)
"The Empress of Mars", Kage Baker (Asimov's, Jul03)
Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Jul02)
"Stories for Men", John Kessel (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2002)
"Breathmoss", Ian MacLeod (Asimov's, May02)

Best Novelette
"Mask of the Rex", Richard Bowes (F&SF, May02)
"Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs", Adam-Troy Castro
(Imaginings, ed. Keith R. A. DeCandido, Pocket Books, Aug 2003)
"0wnz0red", Cory Doctorow (Salon.com, Aug02)
"The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (SCI FICTION, Feb 26, 03)
"The Wages of Syntax", Ray Vukcevich (SCI FICTION, Oct 16, 02)

Best Short Story
"Knapsack Poems", Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's, May02)
"The Brief History of the Dead", Kevin Brockmeier (The New Yorker, Sep 8, 2003)
"Goodbye to All That", Harlan Ellison (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury
of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage, Apr03; Envisioning the
Future: Science Fiction and the Next New Millenium, ed. Marleen S. Barr,
Wesleyan University Press, Sep03)
"Grandma", by Carol Emshwiller (F&SF, Mar02)
"What I Didn't See", Karen Joy Fowler (SCI FICTION, Jul 10, 2002)
"Lambing Season", Molly Gloss (Asimov's, Jul02)
"The Last of the O-Forms", James Van Pelt (Asimov's, Sep02)

Best Script
Finding Nemo, Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
(Pixar/Disney, May03)
Minority Report, Scott Frank and John Cohen (Dreamworks, Jul02) [Based
on the Short Story by Philip K. Dick]
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki and Cindy Davis Hewitt & Donald H. Hewitt
(English screenplay) (Studio Ghibli and Walt Disney Pictures, Sep02)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Fran Walsh & Philippa Bowens &
Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson  (New Line Cinema, Dec02) [Based on the
book by J. R. R. Tolkein]
"Where No Fan Has Gone Before", David A. Goodman (Futurama, Apr02)
[Television series created by Matt Groening]


Subject: (news) [RRA-L] Winners of 2003 RRA Awards
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2004

Listee Nancy Barber was kind enough to forward this to me... thought it might also be of general interest.

Ta, Lois.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy L. Barber"
To: "Lois McMaster Bujold"
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Subject: Fwd: [RRA-L] Winners of 2003 RRA Awards

Recent posted to the RRA-L list--scroll down to #9 for Paladin. It's a small poll, just among the RRA-L subscribers, but every little bit counts... ...

Nancy Barber

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004
From: Preeti Singh
Subject: [RRA-L] Winners of 2003 RRA Awards
Sender: Romance Readers Anonymous 

Here you go.  Congratulations to all who won.  Thanks to all who
voted!  I'll put these, as well as the first runners up, on the
Web soon.


2003 RRA-L AWARDS

(1) Best Series Romance:

SOME MEN'S DREAMS by Kathleen Korbel (SIM 1237)

(2) Best Contemporary Single Title Romance:

BIRTHRIGHT by Nora Roberts

(3) Best Historical Single Title Romance:

TO WED A STRANGER by Edith Layton

(4) Best Regency Romance (Traditional):

THE IDEAL BRIDE by Nonnie St. George

(5) Best Romantic Suspense/Mystery/Adventure

BENEATH A SILENT MOON by Tracy Grant

(6) Best Paranormal/Futuristic/Etc Romance:

THE STAR PRINCESS by Susan Grant

(7) Best Humorous Romance:

NERD IN SHINING ARMOR by Vicki Lewis Thompson

(8) Best Romance Novella:

"Moonglow" by Catherine Asaro (CHARMED DESTINIES)

(9) Best Romantic Novel outside the Romance Genre:

PALADIN OF SOULS by Lois McMaster Bujold

(10) Best All-Around 2003 Romance:

TO WED A STRANGER by Edith Layton


BEST ALL-TIME ROMANCES

(11) Best All-Time Series Romance:

MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN by Linda Howard

(12) Best All-Time Contemporary Romance:

IT HAD TO BE YOU by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(13) Best All-Time Historical Romance:

LORD OF SCOUNDRELS by Loretta Chase

(14) Best All-Time Regency Romance:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen

(15) Best All-Time Romance Novel:

LORD OF SCOUNDRELS by Loretta Chase

(16) Best All-Time Romance Author:

Georgette Heyer

(17) Best All-Time Paranormal/Futuristic/Etc Romance Novel:

OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon


NEW AWARDS I'M TESTING(after eliminating "Author Awards")

(18) Best Debut Author of 2003:

Nonnie St. George

(19) Best Cover Art of 2003:

NIGHT FIRES by Karen Harbaugh
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553584189.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(20) Best Romantic Movie of 2003:

LOVE ACTUALLY (Richard Curtis)

(21) Best Romance Web site of 2003 (author, publisher, reader,
etc.):

All About Romance (http://www.likesbooks.com/)


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