2011 Nebula Award Nominees

Via SF Signal

The nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.

Novel

• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)
• Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)
• God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)
• The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) 

Novella

• “Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011)
• “Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente (WFSA Press; Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011)
• “The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2011)
• “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011)
• “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu (Panverse Three, Panverse Publishing)
• “With Unclean Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2011) 

Novelette

• “Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4, Night Shade Books)
• “Ray of Light” by Brad R. Torgersen (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011)
• “Sauerkraut Station” by Ferrett Steinmetz (Giganotosaurus, November 2011)
• “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June 2011)
• “The Migratory Pattern of Dancers” by Katherine Sparrow (Giganotosaurus, July 2011)
• “The Old Equations” by Jake Kerr (Lightspeed Magazine, July 2011)
• “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2011) 

Short Story

• “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
• “Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son” by Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011)
• “Movement” by Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011)
• “Shipbirth” by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2011)
• “The Axiom of Choice” by David W. Goldman (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011)
• “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011) 

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Attack the Block, Joe Cornish (writer/director) (Optimum Releasing; Screen Gems)
• Captain America: The First Avenger, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely (writers), Joe Johnston (director) (Paramount)
• Doctor Who: “The Doctor’s Wife,” Neil Gaiman (writer), Richard Clark (director) (BBC Wales)
• Hugo, John Logan (writer), Martin Scorsese (director) (Paramount)
• Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen (writer/director) (Sony)
• Source Code, Ben Ripley (writer), Duncan Jones (director) (Summit)
• The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi (writer/director) (Universal) 

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book

• Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Juvenile)
• Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial Books; Bloomsbury)
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books)
• Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (Orchard Books; Carolrhoda Books) 

Congratulations to all of the nominees,  but I would like to give extra attention to Mary Robinette Kowal, Rachel Swirsky, Genevieve Valentine, Ken Liu, Katherine Sparrow, E Lily Yu, Charlie Jane Anders, and Aliette de Bodard.