2009 Nebula Awards®
Photos by Keith Stokes
Presented at Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Cocoa Beach, Florida on May 15, 2010
Friday afternoon saw perhaps the most impressive bit of Nebula Award Weekend entertainment with most of the attendees bussed to the Banana River viewing site to watch what was supposed to be the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. Because the local Barnes and Noble was so far from the hotel, they set up an ersatz store at the hotel for the signing, and apparently did more business at the hotel than the store did all day. The signing was followed by an outdoor reception where Neal Barrett, Jr. was named Author Emeritus. Saturday programming had panels on the future of publishing, financial planning, and social networking. The banquet was emceed by Allen Steele, who spoke about his time as a journalist covering NASA and David Levine gave a talk about his experiences with the Mars Desert Research Station. The ceremony was streamed across the internet in real time and there was a viewing party held in New York sponsored by John Ordover. Ceremony Highlights. More photos by Keith Stokes.
Best Novel
- Winner: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, published by Night Shade
- The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak, published by Bantam
- Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, published by Tor
- The City and the City by China Miéville, published by Del Rey and Macmillan UK
- Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman, published by Pocket
- Finch by Jeff VanderMeer, published by Underland
Best Novella
- Winner: “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s” by Kage Baker, published by Subterranean
- “Arkfall” by Carolyn Gilman, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- “Shambling Towards Hiroshima” by James Morrow, published by Tachyon
- “Sublimation Angels” by Jason Sanford, published by Interzone
- “The God Engines” by John Scalzi, published by Subterranean Press
- “Act One” by Nancy Kress, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Best Novelette
- “The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi
- “Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage” by Michael Bishop, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Winner: “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster, published by Interzone
- “Divining Light” by Ted Kosmatka, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “A Memory of Wind” by Rachel Swirsky, published by Tor.com
Best Short Story
- “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela” by Saladin Ahmed
- “I Remember the Future” by Michael A. Burstein
- “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemisin, published by Clarkesworld
- Winner: “Spar” by Kij Johnson, published by Clarkesworld
- “Going Deep” by James Patrick Kelly, published by Asimov’s Magazine
- “Bridesicle” by Will McIntosh, published by Asimov’s Magazine
Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
- Winner: District 9 written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, directed by Neill Blomkamp (TriStar Pictures)
- Avatar written by James Cameron, directed by James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)
- Moon written by Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker, directed by Duncan Jones (Sony Pictures)
- Star Trek written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, directed by J.J. Abrams (Paramount Pictures)
- Up written by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Tom McCarthy, directed by Pete Docter (Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures)
- Coraline written by Henry Selick, directed by Henry Selick (Focus Features)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
- Hotel Under the Sand by Kage Baker, published by Tachyon
- Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi, published by Tor
- Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev, published by Feiwel & Friends
- Ash by Malinda Lo, published by Little, Brown
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, published by Wendy Lamb Books
- Ice by Sarah Beth Durst, published by Margaret K. McElderry
- Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, published by Simon Pulse
- Winner: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, published by Self