The Nebula Award and Norton Award noms are out. Go, Dave Schwartz and Superpowers! Go Ysabeau! And Kelley! And Doc Kessel! And Kij! And Jeff! And Rick Bowes and Jim Kelly! And pretty much everyone, really! Good list, is what I'm saying, and particularly kudos to the Norton jury for excellent selections.
And, ahem, we have two YA novels–Powers and Little Brother–in the novel category, which has to be first, right?
Full list behind the cut.
Novels:
"Little Brother" – Doctorow, Cory (Tor, Apr08)
"Powers" – Le Guin, Ursula K. (Harcourt, Sep07)
"Cauldron" – McDevitt, Jack (Ace,Nov07)
"Brasyl" – McDonald, Ian (Pyr, May07)
"Making Money" – Pratchett, Terry (Harper, Sep07)
"Superpowers" – Schwartz, David J. (Three Rivers Press, Jun08)
Novellas:
"The Spacetime Pool" – Asaro, Catherine (Analog, Mar08)
"Dark Heaven"-Benford, Gregory (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jan07)
"Dangerous Space"-Eskridge, Kelley (Dangerous Space, Aquaduct Press, Jun07)
"The Political Prisoner" – Finlay, Charles Coleman (F&SF, Aug08)
"The Duke in His Castle" – Nazarian, Vera (Norilana Books, Jun08)
Novelettes:
"If Angels Fight" – Bowes, Richard (F&SF, Feb08)
"Dark Rooms" – Goldstein, Lisa (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 07)
"Pride and Prometheus" – Kessel, John (F&SF, Jan08)
"Night Wind"-Rosenblum, Mary (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books,Feb08)
"Baby Doll" – Sinisalo, Johanna (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 (trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston)
"Kaleidoscope" – Wentworth, K.D. (F&SF, May07)
Short Stories:
"The Button Bin"-Allen, Mike (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly,
"The Dreaming Wind" – Ford, Jeffrey (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking, Jul07)
"Trophy Wives" – Hoffman, Nina Kiriki (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" – Johnson, Kij (Asimov's, Jul08)
"The Tomb Wife" – Jones, Gwyneth (F&SF, Aug07)
"Don't Stop" – Kelly, James Patrick (Asimov's, Jun07)
Norton:
"Graceling" – Cashore, Kristin (Harcourt, Oct08)
"Lamplighter" – Cornish, D.M. (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
"Savvy" – Law, Ingrid (Dial, May08)
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"-Pearson, Mary E.(Henry Holt & Company, Apr08)
"Flora's 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) -Wilce, Ysabeau S. (Harcourt, Sep08)