Nebula Awards Showcase 2012
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Grand Master: Harry Harrison
Author Emeritus: M. J. Engh
Solstice: Kate Wilhelm, Martin H. Greenberg, and the late Algis Budrys
SFWA Service Award: Victoria Strauss
2009
Novel: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Novella: “The Women of Nell Gwynne's” by Kage Baker
Novelette: “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster
Short Story: “Spar” by Kij Johnson
Ray Bradbury Award: District 9 by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
Andre Norton Award: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Grand Master: Joe Haldeman
Author Emeritus: Neal Barrett, Jr.
Solstice Award: Tom Doherty, Terri Windling, and the late Donald A. Wollheim
SFWA Service Awards: Vonda N. McIntyre and Keith Stokes
The cover of The 2011 Nebula Awards Showcase is by this year's second Solstice Award winner, the renowned artist and illustrator Michael Whelan.
Since 1980, Mr. Whelan, a fifteen-time winner of the Hugo Award, has been one of the world's premier fantasy and science fiction artists. In the past three decades his art has graced the covers of books written by Grand Masters and Nebula winners, including Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Sir Arthur C. Clarke. His vision has not only provided a glimpse into the worlds science fiction and fantasy writers imagine, but has also served to draw readers, old and new, into the genre and has inspired artists whose work is featured on countless covers of SFWA members’ books today. In June 2009, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, the first living artist so honored.
James Patrick Kelly has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays, and planetarium shows. His books include The Wreck of the Godspeed, Think Like a Dinosaur, Wildlife, and Look into the Sun. His short novel Burn won the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award in 2007. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award twice, for the novelettes “Think Like a Dinosaur” and “Ten to the Sixteenth to One.” He writes a column on the Internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. His most recent publishing venture is the e-zine James Patrick Kelly's Strangeways.
John Kessel teaches creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, he has also received the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. His books include the novels Good News from Outer Space and Corrupting Dr. Nice, and the collections Meeting in Infinity and The Pure Product. With James Patrick Kelly he edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, The Secret History of Science Fiction, and Kafkaesque. His recent collection The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories contains the winner of the 2008 Nebula Award for best novelette, “Pride and Prometheus.”