Începem cu finaliştii Nebula, pe care i-am aflat dintr-un comunicat dat publicităţii astăzi şi reluat pe blogul lui John Scalzi, preşedinte (încă) al SFWA.

Povestire

• ‘‘Arvies’’, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine 8/10)
• ‘‘How Interesting: A Tiny Man’’, Harlan Ellison® (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
• ‘‘Ponies’’, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10)
• ‘‘I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno’’, Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine 6/10)
• ‘‘The Green Book’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 11/1/10)
• ‘‘Ghosts of New York’’, Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
• ‘‘Conditional Love’’, Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1/10)

Nuveletă

• ‘‘Map of Seventeen’’, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
• ‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow’’, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 7/10)
• ‘‘The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara’’, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
• “Plus or Minus’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine12/10)
• ‘‘Pishaach’’, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
• ‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made’’, Eric James Stone (Analog Science Fiction and Fact 9/10)
• ‘‘Stone Wall Truth’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2/10)

Nuvelă

• The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
• ‘‘Iron Shoes’’, J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2)
• The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
• ‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds’’, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9/10)
• ‘‘Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance’’, Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1-2/10)
• ‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’’, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine Summer ’10)

Roman

• The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
• Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)

Premiul Ray Bradbury

• Despicable Me, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud (directors), Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul (screenplay), Sergio Pablos (story) (Illumination Entertainment)
• Doctor Who: ‘‘Vincent and the Doctor’’, Richard Curtis (writer), Jonny Campbell (director)
• How to Train Your Dragon, Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders (directors), William Davies, Dean DeBlois, & Chris Sanders (screenplay) (DreamWorks Animation)
• Inception, Christopher Nolan (director), Christopher Nolan (screenplay) (Warner)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright (director), Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright (screenplay) (Universal)
• Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich (director), Michael Arndt (screenplay), John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, & Lee Unkrich (story) (Pixar/Disney)

Premiul Andre Norton pentru SF&F pentru tineri

• Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK)
• Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet)
• The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen)
• I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
• A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
• Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

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Şi cei desemnaţi de redacţia Los Angeles Times (listă preluată de pe blogul subredacţiei literare, Jacket Copy, ţinut de Carolyn Kellogg):

Biografie

• Miranda Carter, „George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I” (Knopf)
• Selina Hastings, „The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham” (Random House)
• Laura Hillenbrand, „Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption” (Random House)
• Christopher Hitchens, „Hitch-22: A Memoir” (TWELVE/Hachette Book Group)
• Edmund Morris, „Colonel Roosevelt” (Random House)

Interes general

• Jonathan Alter, „The Promise: President Obama, Year One” (Simon & Schuster)
• Sebastian Junger, „War” (TWELVE/Hachette Book Group)
• Michael Lewis, „The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean, „All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis” (Portfolio/Penguin Group)
• Patti Smith, „Just Kids” (Ecco/HarperCollins)

Ficţiune

• Rick Bass, „Nashville Chrome” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Richard Bausch, „Something is Out There: Stories” (Knopf)
• Jennifer Egan, „A Visit From the Goon Squad” (Knopf)
• Jonathan Franzen, „Freedom” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Frederick Reiken, „Day for Night„(Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)

Premiul Art Seidenbaum pentru debut în ficţiune

• Peter Bognanni, „The House of Tomorrow” (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
• Leslie Jamison, „The Gin Closet” (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
• Michael Sledge, „The More I Owe You” (Counterpoint)
• Christine Sneed, „Portraits of a Few People I’ve Made Cry: Stories” (University of Massachusetts Press)
• Tatjana Soli, „The Lotus Eaters” (St. Martin’s Press)

Roman grafic

• Adam Hines, „Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One” (Adhouse Books)
• Dash Shaw, „Bodyworld” (Pantheon)
• Karl Stevens, „The Lodger” (KSA Publishing)
• C. Tyler, „You’ll Never Know, Book Two: Collateral Damage” (Fantagraphics)
• Jim Woodring, „Weathercraft” (Fantagraphics)

Carte de istorie

• Ron Chernow, „Washington: A Life” (The Penguin Press)
• John W. Dower, „Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq” (W.W. Norton & Company and The New Press)
• Susan Dunn, „Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought To Change the Democratic Party” (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• Thomas Powers, „The Killing of Crazy Horse” (Pantheon)
• Steven Solomon, „Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization” (HarperCollins)

Mystery-Thriller

• Tom Franklin, „Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter” (William Morrow)
• Tana French, „Faithful Place” (Viking)
• Laura Lippman, „I’d Know You Anywhere” (William Morrow)
• Stuart Neville, „Collusion” (SoHo Press)
• Kelli Stanley, „City of Dragons” (Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book)

Poezie

• Henri Cole, „Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Maxine Kumin, „Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010” (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Yehoshua November, „God’s Optimism” (Main Street Rag)
• Craig Santos Perez, „From Unincorporated Territory {Saina}” (Omnidawn)
• Ed Roberson, „To See the Earth Before the End of the World”  (Wesleyan University Press)

Ştiinţă şi tehnologie

• Oren Harman, „The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness” (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, „The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” (Scribner)
• Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, „Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” (Bloomsbury USA)
• Lauren Redniss, „Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout” (It Books/HarperCollins)
• Rebecca Skloot, „The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (Crown)

Literatură pentru tineret

• Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, „Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science” (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Stephanie Hemphill, „Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials” (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)
• Jonathan Stroud, „The Ring of Solomon” (Disney/Hyperion Books for Children)
• Megan Whalen Turner, „A Conspiracy of Kings” (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
• Rick Yancey, „The Curse of the Wendigo {The Monstrumologist}” (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Premiul Robert Kirsch

• Beverly Cleary (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Premiul pentru inovaţie

• Powell’s Books, Portland, Ore.