{"id":2290,"date":"2009-04-26T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2009-04-26T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T15:09:31","slug":"nebula-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"Nebula Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nebula Awards 2009 were presented Saturday night in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

Novel – Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin
\nNovella – \u201cThe Spacetime Pool\u201d – Catherine Asaro
\nNovelette – \u201cPride and Prometheus\u201d – John Kessel
\nShort Story – \u201cTrophy Wives\u201d – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
\nScript – \u201cWALL-E\u201d <\/p>\n

Andre Norton Award – Flora\u2019s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) – Ysabeau S. Wilce<\/p>\n

Other awards given:<\/p>\n

A.J. Budrys — Solstice Award (Tim Powers accepted)<\/p>\n

M.J. Engh — Author Emerita<\/p>\n

Marty Greenberg — Solstice Award<\/p>\n

Harry Harrison — Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master<\/p>\n

Joss Whedon — Ray Bradbury Award (Joss Whedon accepted by video \u2013 it can be found at this youtube link.<\/a> The award statue is an astronaut \u2013 the astronaut’s helmet is a IBM selectric typeball!)<\/p>\n

Kate Wilhelm — Solstice Award (Joe Haldeman accepted)<\/p>\n

SFWA Service Award – Victoria Strauss, from Writer’s Beware
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\nThe toastmistress Janis Ian, got a standing ovation when she \u2018filked\u2019 her own song “Seventeen” with new lyrics about the SF stories that influenced her as young woman. Lyrics included “Who dreams of positronic men?” and “Who dreams the dreams of kids like me?”.<\/p>\n

Chuck Lorre, who wrote “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, was the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n

The night\u2019s major snafu \u2013 SFSignal released the full list of winners a full hour before the awards ceremony was over, and pulled down the web page about 5 minutes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nebula Awards 2009 were presented Saturday night in Los Angeles. Novel – Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin Novella – \u201cThe Spacetime Pool\u201d – Catherine Asaro Novelette – \u201cPride and Prometheus\u201d – John Kessel Short Story – \u201cTrophy Wives\u201d – Nina Kiriki Hoffman Script – \u201cWALL-E\u201d Andre Norton Award – Flora\u2019s Dare: How a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}