Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (59 page)

“But it was the
crossing
that mattered to you,” Kit said, realizing it. “Just as with me, but in a different way.”

“Yes,” she said and after a pause: “So now I'm wondering. How big do the Big Ones get in the Mist Ocean? And what's on the other side?”

“Nothing's on the other side,” Kit said. “There's no crossing something without an end.”

“Everything can be crossed. Of course it has an end. There's a river of water deep under the Mist River, yes? And that water runs somewhere. And all the other rivers, all the lakes—they all drain somewhere. There's a water ocean under the Mist Ocean and I wonder whether the mist ends somewhere out there, if it spreads out and vanishes and you find you are floating on water.”

“It's a different element,” Kit said, turning the problem over. “So you would need a boat that works through mist, light enough with that broad belly and fishskin sheathing; but it would have to be deep-keeled enough for water.”

She nodded. “I want to take a coast-skimmer and refit it, find out what's out there. Islands, Kit. Big Ones.
Huge
Ones. Another whole world maybe. I think I would like to be Rasali Ocean.”

“You will come to Ulei with me?” he said but he knew already. She
would
come, for a month or a season or a year or even longer, perhaps. They would sleep tumbled together in an inn very like The Fish or The Bitch, and when her boat was finished, she would sail across Ocean, and he would move on to the next bridge or road. Or he might return to the capital and a position at University. Or he might rest at last.

“I will come,” she said. “For a bit.”

Suddenly he felt a deep and powerful emotion in his chest: overwhelmed by everything that had happened or would happen in their lives, the changes to Nearside and Farside, the ferry's ending, Valo's death, the fact that she would leave him eventually or that he would leave her. “I'm sorry,” he said.

“I'm not,” she said and leaned across to kiss him, her mouth warm with sunlight and life. “It is worth it, all of it.”

All those losses, but this one at least he could prevent.

“When the time comes,” he said: “When you sail. I will come with you.”

 

A fo ben, bid bont.
To be a leader, be a bridge.
Welsh proverb

Novel: Winner

Among Others
, Jo Walton (Tor)

Novel: Nominees

Embassytown
, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)

Firebird
, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)

God's War
, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)

The Kingdom of Gods
, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Novella: Winner

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” Kij Johnson (
Asimov's Science Fiction
, October/November 2011)

Novella: Nominees

“Kiss Me Twice,” Mary Robinette Kowal (
Asimov's Science Fiction
, June 2011)

“Silently and Very Fast,” Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press;
Clarkesworld Magazine
, October 2011)

“The Ice Owl,” Carolyn Ives Gilman (
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, November/December 2011)

“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary,” Ken Liu (
Panverse Three
, Panverse Publishing)

“With Unclean Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
, November 2011)

Novelette: Winner

“What We Found,” Geoff Ryman (
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, September/October 2011)

Novelette: Nominees

“Fields of Gold,” Rachel Swirsky (
Eclipse 4
, Night Shade Books)

“Ray of Light,” Brad R. Torgersen (
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
, December 2011)

“Sauerkraut Station,” Ferrett Steinmetz (
GigaNotoSaurus
, November 2011)

“Six Months, Three Days,” Charlie Jane Anders (
Tor.com
, June 2011)

“The Migratory Pattern of Dancers,” Katherine Sparrow (
GigaNotoSaurus
, July 2011)

“The Old Equations,” Jake Kerr (
Lightspeed Magazine
, July 2011)

Short Story: Winner

“The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu (
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, March/April 2011)

Short Story: Nominees

“Her Husband's Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (
Lightspeed Magazine
, October 2011)

“Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son,” Tom Crosshill (
Lightspeed Magazine
, April 2011)

“Movement,” Nancy Fulda (
Asimov's Science Fiction
, March 2011)

“Shipbirth,” Aliette de Bodard (
Asimov's Science Fiction
, February 2011)

“The Axiom of Choice,” David W. Goldman (
New Haven Review
, Winter 2011)

“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” E. Lily Yu (
Clarkesworld Magazine
, April 2011)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book: Winner

The Freedom Maze
, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)

Norton Nominees:

Akata Witch
, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Juvenile)

Chime
, Franny Billingsley (Dial Books; Bloomsbury)

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Hodder & Stoughton)

Everybody Sees the Ants
, A. S. King (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

The Boy at the End of the World
, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

The Girl of Fire and Thorns
, Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books)

Ultraviolet
, R. J. Anderson (Orchard Books; Carolrhoda Lab)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Winner

Doctor Who
: “The Doctor's Wife,” Neil Gaiman (writer), Richard Clark (director) (BBC Wales)

Bradbury: Nominees

Attack the Block
, Joe Cornish (writer/director) (Optimum Releasing; Screen Gems)

Captain America: The First Avenger
, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (writers), Joe Johnston (director) (Paramount)

Hugo
, John Logan (writer), Martin Scorsese (director) (Paramount)

Midnight in Paris
, Woody Allen (writer/director) (Sony)

Source Code
, Ben Ripley (writer), Duncan Jones (director) (Summit)

The Adjustment Bureau
, George Nolfi (writer/director) (Universal)

2011 Damon Knight Grand Master Award: Connie Willis

Solstice Award: Octavia Butler (posthumous) and John Clute

SFWA Service Award: Bud Webster

1965

Novel:
Dune
by Frank Herbert

Novella: “He Who Shapes” by Roger Zelazny and “The Saliva Tree” by Brian Aldiss (tie)

Novelette: “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” by Roger Zelazny

Short Story: “'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison

1966

Novel:
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany and
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes (tie)

Novella: “The Last Castle” by Jack Vance

Novelette: “Call Him Lord” by Gordon R. Dickson

Short Story: “The Secret Place” by Richard McKenna

1967

Novel:
The Einstein Intersection
by Samuel R. Delany

Novella: “Behold the Man” by Michael Moorcock

Novelette: “Gonna Roll the Bones” by Fritz Leiber

Short Story: “Aye, and Gomorrah” by Samuel R. Delany

1968

Novel:
Rite of Passage
by Alexei Panshin

Novella: “Dragonrider” by Anne McCaffrey

Novelette: “Mother to the World” by Richard Wilson

Short Story: “The Planners” by Kate Wilhelm

1969

Novel:
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin

Novella: “A Boy and His Dog” by Harlan Ellison

Novelette: “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” by Samuel R. Delany

Short Story: “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg

1970

Novel:
Ringworld
by Larry Niven

Novella: “Ill Met in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber

Novelette: “Slow Sculpture” by Theodore Sturgeon

Short Story: No Award

1971

Novel:
A Time of Changes
by Robert Silverberg

Novella: “The Missing Man” by Katherine MacLean

Novelette: “The Queen of Air and Darkness” by Poul Anderson

Short Story: “Good News from the Vatican” by Robert Silverberg

1972

Novel:
The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov

Novella: “A Meeting with Medusa” by Arthur C. Clarke

Novelette: “Goat Song” by Poul Anderson

Short Story: “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ

1973

Novel:
Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke

Novella: “The Death of Doctor Island” by Gene Wolfe

Novelette: “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” by Vonda N. McIntyre

Short Story: “Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death” by James Tiptree Jr.

Dramatic Presentation:
Soylent Green

1974

Novel:
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin

Novella: “Born with the Dead” by Robert Silverberg

Novelette: “If the Stars Are Gods” by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford

Short Story: “The Day before the Revolution” by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dramatic Presentation:
Sleeper
by Woody Allen

Grand Master: Robert Heinlein

1975

Novel:
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman

Novella: “Home Is the Hangman” by Roger Zelazny

Novelette: “San Diego Lightfoot Sue” by Tom Reamy

Short Story: “Catch That Zeppelin” by Fritz Leiber

Dramatic Presentation:
Young Frankenstein
by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder

Grand Master: Jack Williamson

1976

Novel:
Man Plus
by Frederik Pohl

Novella: “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” by James Tiptree Jr.

Novelette: “The Bicentennial Man” by Isaac Asimov

Short Story: “A Crowd of Shadows” by C. L. Grant

Grand Master: Clifford D. Simak

1977

Novel:
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl

Novella: “Stardance” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson

Novelette: “The Screwfly Solution” by Racoona Sheldon

Short Story: “Jeffty Is Five” by Harlan Ellison

1978

Novel:
Dreamsnake
by Vonda N. McIntyre

Novella: “The Persistence of Vision” by John Varley

Novelette: “A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn's Eye” by C. L. Grant

Short Story: “Stone” by Edward Bryant

Grand Master: L. Sprague de Camp

1979

Novel:
The Fountains of Paradise
by Arthur C. Clarke

Novella: “Enemy Mine” by Barry B. Longyear

Novelette: “Sandkings” by George R. R. Martin

Short Story: “GiANTS” by Edward Bryant

1980

Novel:
Timescape
by Gregory Benford

Novella: “Unicorn Tapestry” by Suzy McKee Charnas

Novelette: “The Ugly Chickens” by Howard Waldrop

Short Story: “Grotto of the Dancing Deer” by Clifford D. Simak

Grand Master: Fritz Leiber

1981

Novel:
The Claw of the Conciliator
by Gene Wolfe

Novella: “The Saturn Game” by Poul Anderson

Novelette: “The Quickening” by Michael Bishop

Short Story: “The Bone Flute” by Lisa Tuttle [declined by author]

1982