2010 « Mircea Pricăjan

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