Nebula Awards 2013: Os vencedores

Decorreu ontem à noite em San José, na Califórnia, a cerimónia de entrega dos Nebula Awards 2013, atribuídos pela Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America desde 1966 aos trabalhos que mais se distinguiram no campo da fantasia e da ficção científica no ano anterior. E a cerimónia confirmou o grande favoritismo de Ancillary Justice, o romance de estreia de Ann Leckie que foi agraciado na categoria de "Best Novel" e que, até ao momento, já conquistou o British Science Fiction Award e o Arthur C. Clarke Award. Nas restantes categorias literárias, os Nébula distinguiram a ficção de Vylar Kaftan, Aliette de Bodard e Rachel Swirsky (com o conto If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love, já aqui referido); o prémio Andre Norton para fantasia e ficção científica young adult foi entregue a Nalo Hopkinson; e o Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation distinguiu, sem surpresa, o espantoso Gravity, de Alfonso Cuarón. Quanto a Samuel R. Delany, como aliás já se sabia, recebeu o 2013 Damon Knight Grand Master Award, que reconhece a sua longa e relevante carreira literária na ficção científica.

Best Novel:

• Ancillary Justice, de Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, de Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, de Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
• Fire with Fire, de Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
• Hild, de Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Red: First Light, de Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
• A Stranger in Olondria, de Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• The Golem and the Jinni, de Helene Wecker (Harper)

Best Novella:

• The Weight of the Sunrise, de Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s, 02/2013)
• Wakulla Springs, de Andy Duncan e Ellen Klages (Tor.com, 02/10/13)
• Annabel Lee, de Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun)
• Burning Girls, de Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com, 19/06/13)
• Trial of the Century, Lawrence M. Schoen (lawrencemschoen.com, 08/2013; World Jumping)
• Six-Gun Snow White, de Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Best Novelette:

• The Waiting Stars, de Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky)
• Paranormal Romance, de Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed, 0620/13)
• They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass, de Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s, 01/2013)
• Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters, de Henry Lien (Asimov’s, 12/2013)
• The Litigation Master and the Monkey King, de Ken Liu (Lightspeed, 08/13)
• In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind, de Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons, 01/07 – 08/07/2013)

Best Short Story:

• If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love, de Rachel Swirsky (Apex, 03/2013)
• The Sounds of Old Earth, de Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed, 01/2013)
• Selkie Stories Are for Losers, de Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons, 07/01/2013)
• Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer, de Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
• Alive, Alive Oh, de Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed, 06/2013)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation:

• Gravity, com realização de Alfonso Cuarón e argumento de Alfonso e Jonás Cuarón (Warner Bros.)
• Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor", com realização de Nick Hurran e argumento de Steven Moffat (BBC Wales)
• Europa Report, com realização de Sebastián Cordero e argumento de Philip Gelatt (Start Motion Pictures)
• Her, com realização e argumento de Spike Jonze (Warner Bros.)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, com realização de Francis Lawrence e argumento de Simon Beaufoy e Michael deBruyn (Lionsgate)
• Pacific Rim, com realização de Guillermo del Toro e argumento de Travis Beacham e Guillermo del Toro (Warner Bros.)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:

• Sister Mine, de Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, de Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
• When We Wake, de Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
• The Summer Prince, de Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
• Hero, de Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
• September Girls, de Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
• A Corner of White, de Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)

Fontes: Locus / Tor.com