The Nebula Award Nominees (That You Can Read Free Online)

The Nebula Award Nominees are out this week, and as usual we have tried to provide you with links to where you can read at least some of them for free online. So far as we were able to quickly Google. This turns out to be a lot! Congratulations to the twice nominated Alaya Dawn Johnson, to our friends at Apex magazine for earning a nomination for Rachel Swirsky “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love,” and to Pacific Rim. We really hope you win Best Dramatic Presentation, because we love you.

Best Novel

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Read a sample here)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Read a sample here)
• Fire with Fire, Charles E. Gannon
• Hild, Nicola Griffith (Read a Kindle sample here)
• Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Read a sample here)
• The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Read a sample here)
• A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Read a sample here)
• The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker

Best Novella

• ‘‘Wakulla Springs,’’ Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)
• ‘‘The Weight of the Sunrise’’ (excerpt), Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13)
• ‘‘Annabel Lee,” Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun, Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick)
• ‘‘Burning Girls,’’ Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
• ‘‘Trial of the Century,’’ Lawrence M. Schoen (lawrencemschoen.com, 8/13; World Jumping)
• Six-Gun Snow White (excerpt)  Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Best Novelette

• ‘‘Paranormal Romance,’’ Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed 6/13)
• ‘‘The Waiting Stars,’’ Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky)
• ‘‘They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass,’’ Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s 1/13)
• ‘‘Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters’’ (excerpt), Henry Lien (Asimov’s 12/13)
• ‘‘The Litigation Master and the Monkey King,’’ Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/13)
• ‘‘In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,’’ Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons 7/1 – 7/8/13)

Best Short Story

• ‘‘The Sounds of Old Earth,’’ Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 1/13)
• ‘‘Selkie Stories Are for Losers,’’ Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13)
• ‘‘Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer’’ (audio recording) Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
• ‘‘If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love,’’ Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)
• ‘‘Alive, Alive Oh,’’ Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed 6/13)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: ‘‘The Day of the Doctor’’ (Nick Hurran, director; Steven Moffat, writer) (BBC Wales)
• Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, director; Philip Gelatt, writer) (Start Motion Pictures)
• Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, director; Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, writers) (Warner Bros.)
• Her (Spike Jonze, director; Spike Jonze, writer) (Warner Bros.)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, director; Simon Beaufoy & Michael deBruyn, writers) (Lionsgate)
• Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, director; Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro, writers) (Warner Bros.)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (PDF excerpt), Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
• When We Wake (excerpt), Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
• Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
• The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
• Hero, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
• September Girls, Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
• A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)

Damon Knight Grand Master Award: Samuel R. Delany

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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