This year’s Nebula Awards will be held May 16–19. Organized by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and first awarded in 1966, the Nebulas recognize the best science fiction and fantasy published annually. Each year, an award is given to the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story. Here at Open Road, we are proud to be home to several Nebula Award–winning authors.
Elizabeth Hand was awarded a Nebula in 1999 for her novella Last Summer at Mars Hill. Also a World Fantasy Award–winner, the story concerns a youth’s summer at a New England artists’ colony. In addition to the hippies that populate the colony, the group is surrounded by “Light Children,” who allow the residents to believe in the greater possibilities of life—despite being confronted with realities beyond their control.
Robert Silverberg is also no stranger to the Nebulas. He has won and been been nominated numerous times, including a 1986 win for the title novella in his book Sailing to Byzantium, in which a man from the 1980s, is taken forward in time to the fiftieth century, where the wealthy live as tourists in the once-great cities of the past.
Octavia E. Butler is also a multiple-time nominee and winner. Her first win was for the novelette “Bloodchild”in 1984. Although she was nominated in 1994 for her classic novel, Parable of the Sower, she wouldn’t win the award again until 1999, for the second book in the Parable series, Parable of the Talents.
The great science-fiction advocate Theodore Sturgeon was awarded aNebula in 1970 for his novelette “Slow Sculpture,” a moving story about a breast-cancer patient and her encounter with a scientist who has the capabilities to change the future of humanity—only he chooses to hide his talents. “Slow Sculpture” can be found in his Selected Stories collection.
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