The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., which includes the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. The final ballot is mailed in March, with the winners announced in New York from May 11-13. Here are the contenders in the novel category. |
Robert Charles Wilson
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. And time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside. Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.
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Richard Bowes
Greek gods are posing as humans and pulling humanity's strings in this mosaic novel about time travel, alternate worlds, and the making of a president. The Time Rangers, Apollo's chosen servants, have been given a new task - to protect Timothy Macauley, the chosen one who must become the president of the United States or else witness the destruction of humankind. But standing in their way? A few gods.
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Tobias Buckell
Long ago the old-fathers came to Nanagada, looking for a new world to call their own. Like his world, John deBrun has forgotten more than he remembers. These mysteries take on new urgency when the fearsome Azteca storm over the mountains, in search of fresh blood and hearts. Nanagada's only hope lies in a mythical artifact said to be hidden in the frozen north. And only John knows the device's secrets, even if he can't remember why or how!
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Jeffrey Ford
The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair - and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.
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David Marusek
The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy, in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Eleanor K. Starke, one of the worlds leading citizens, is assassinated, and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded. Only Ellen is capable of saving Earth from complete domination plotted by the cynical, selfish, immortal rich, if she, herself, survives. But her cryonically frozen head must first be rescued from her family's enemies.
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Wil McCarthy
In the conclusion to this epic interstellar adventure, humanity stands at a crossroads as the heroes who fashioned a man-made heaven must rescue their descendants from eternal damnation. Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope, and he and his lover, Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission to literally crush the moon.
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Jack McDevitt
Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's ships. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger.
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Paul Park
The narrative is split between our world and the people in the alternate world Roumania working to protect or to capture princess Miranda. This is the story of how Miranda - with her two best friends, Peter and Andromeda - is brought back to her home reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will have much to learn about their true identities and the strange world they find themselves in.
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Mark W. Tiedemann
Set in the future when Earth has colonized the moon, Mars, and its orbitals, this science fiction adventure follows the adventures of security officer Mace Preston, who learns that his wife, Helen, has been killed in a construction accident on Mars. Suspicious of the circumstances surrounding her death, Mace embarks on a journey to uncover the truth; what he discovers instead is a zealous web of interplanetary terrorists.
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