I’m currently at the airport waiting for my flight home. My original flight was cancelled and the new one is delayed. The bonus is that it gives me time to blog for the first time this weekend. The Nebula Award weekend was great fun but busy. Since I was there as both a nominee and […]
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Are you a SFWA active or associate member? You have cast your ballot for the Nebula Nomination Period, haven’t you? I mean, the deadline is tonight. The biggest reason I hear from people who haven’t is that they just haven’t read much this year. I understand that. But here’s the thing, if you read anything that
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I’ve now survived the Nebula Award Weekend which was a fun event, but rather focus consuming. The full list of winners is over at the SFWA site and if you want to you can watch the archived footage of the awards ceremony. The highlight for me was the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. I
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Are you a SFWA active member? You have cast your ballot for the Nebula Awards, haven’t you? I mean, tomorrow is the last day. The biggest reason I hear from people who haven’t is that they just haven’t read much this year. I understand that. But let me propose a scenario. Read the nominees the
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While I think this is an unlikely scenario, I want to make this statement before the Nebula nominating period begins on November 15th. Because my involvement in the Nebula voting system is pretty intensive right now, I will decline any nominations of any of my fiction this year. The system is new and I have
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11:36 I’m heading to the airport to go to the Nebulas. # 13:30 Wacky. I used the new paperless boarding pass on my cellphone and it worked. It’s like living in the future. # 14:30 On my plane to LA via Cleveland. The paperless boarding pass was stunningly easy to use. I felt very SF
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I’m sorry you’re getting a lot of twitter summaries this week. I’m slammed trying to get two shows up before I leave town for the Nebulas on Thursday. And yet, I dropped everything to take Maggie to the vet today. 12:49 Worried about Maggie. Rob and I realized that neither of us saw her eat
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Hey! Good news, the hotel has dropped the room rates for the Nebulas. Check it out. The Luxe Hotel has offered to reduce room rates for those who are attending the Nebula Awards. Prices have dropped to $189.00 for Superior Rooms, $209.00 for Deluxe Kings, and $229.00 for Junior Exec Kings. In order to let
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A quick reminder that the price for attending the Nebula Awards Weekend goes up on March 15th. The current price for the full weekend is $135, after that date, it will be $150. Banquet-only prices will also rise from $80 to $100. http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/nebulaweekend is where all the information on the weekend can be found, including
SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2009 Nebula Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles, California. For more information on the awards and the Nebulas Weekend, please visit the Nebula Awards website. Novels Little Brother – Cory Doctorow (Tor, Apr08) Powers –
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. . You can register for the Nebula Weekend online now. Besides one of the industry’s best ways to mingle with top notch SF writers, editors and agents, this year’s weekend also includes some key notables, like, um Joss Whedon, who will be there in person. LOS ANGELES—Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America will
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I’ve really been enjoying the series of interviews at the Nebula Awards site. Today’s is with Adam Rex, author and illustrator of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and The True Meaning of Smekday. During the interview, Charles Tan commented that he enjoyed the puppet video on Mr. Rex’s site. Naturally, I had to click through and
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One of the things I’ve been enjoying at the new Nebula site are the guest bloggers. This week’s is Aliette de Bodard with an excellent post called, A Basic Introduction to Maya Mythology. Similar to my previous article on Aztec mythology, this article is intended as an introduction into some basic ideas of Maya religion
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Michael Capobianco finishes his last day as SFWA’s president today by announcing that his pet project, the Nebula Awards website is open for beta testing. I only have a half-hour or so to go as President, and, as my last official act, I’d like to make the official announcement that the Nebula Awards website, nebulaawards.com,
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Some time ago, I read Andrea Kail’s Soft, like a Rabbit in Fantasy Magazine and loved it. At the moment it has eight, count them, 8, recommendations for a Nebula. Its eligibility expires at the end of this month. If you are an active SFWA member, I highly recommend reading this story in the next
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