2011 Nebula Award Winners

[Marrella]

Originally Posted by dwig

Several are also available as audio readings:

The Lightspeed titles are also available as podcasts:

Her Husband's Hands (if anybody cares )
Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son
The Old Equations

I think the Lightspeed podcasts are usually pretty good, a lot of the stories are read by Stefan Rudnicki.

[BenG]

I listened to the audiobook of Among Others and really enjoyed it. It was read with a Welsh accent that took a few minutes for me to understand everything she was saying but after I got used to it it was a great performance.

It's a fantasy written as an ode to science fiction.

[Nancy Fulda]

Originally Posted by Marrella

I agree that it is a bit weird, and gruesome. But the idea of a pair of hands suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is so original that I just have to like it.

If you are familiar with the author: I'd like to read one of his novels, can you recommend one?

Emissaries from the Dead is his first Andrea Cort novel. I haven't read it, but his other nominated story, "With Unclean Hands" featured Andrea and was quite good.

I'm one of the people who deeply enjoyed Kij Johnson's The Man Who Bridged the Mist, so I was very pleased to see it win.

I was sitting next to Sheila Williams when the winners were announced. It was extremely touching to see, after doing this whole Nebula thing for so many years, how genuinely thrilled she was to see an Asimov's story take the Award. She's deeply invested in her magazine and her authors, as all good editors should be.

[TheLongshot]

Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda

Emissaries from the Dead is his first Andrea Cort novel. I haven't read it, but his other nominated story, "With Unclean Hands" featured Andrea and was quite good.

Emissaries is very good. I got it back when Tor was giving away free e-books.

He did have another Andrea Cort novella published last year in Analog, "Hiding Place", which was very good.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by TheLongshot

Emissaries is very good. I got it back when Tor was giving away free e-books.

Same here.
There's a second Andrea Cort novel—The Third Claw of God—that's available (in print and ebook) too. I enjoyed them both quite a bit. The third in the series is only available (has only ever been available) in German—War of the Marionettes. But I hear that Audible bought the rights for all three audio-books, so now that's an option at $7.49 US. I'm still holding out for an ebook/print edition, though.

EDIT: Hmmmm... $7.49 directly from Audible.com... $21.83 when going through Amazon. Both are the same unabridged version.

[stonetools]

Can some wise , industrious and generous person compile a list of sites where you can get SF stories as podcasts? TIA!


I know of
Escape Pod
Clarkesworld

and now

LIghtspeed

Any others?

[stonetools]

Another question
Do you prefer the Hugo nominations and winners this year, and why?

(OK-two questions).

[DiapDealer]

Do you prefer the Hugo nominations and winners this year, and why?

I don't much care about the Novel category in either, but I always manage to enjoy several from the short-form nominees for both awards. I will say that the Hugo always seems to be more of a "it's so-and-so's turn this year" kind of thing (speaking strictly about Best Novel). I mean c'mon... is there any question that George is going to win this year (there is no new Harry Potter book to thwart him) with a story fragment that's not even the best out of the five in the series?

Add Beneath Ceaseless Skies to your list of sites with SFF podcasts.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Marrella

I agree that it is a bit weird, and gruesome. But the idea of a pair of hands suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is so original that I just have to like it.

If you are familiar with the author: I'd like to read one of his novels, can you recommend one?

Sorry I'm not familiar with his novels, I've read various of his short stories over the years, but not novels.

You are right about it being a unique idea....

[dwig]

Originally Posted by stonetools

Can some wise , industrious and generous person compile a list of sites where you can get SF stories as podcasts? TIA!


I know of
Escape Pod
Clarkesworld

and now

LIghtspeed

Any others?

Beneath Ceaseless Skies as has been mentioned

EscapePod's sister podcasts target horror and fantasy but some of the stories blend those with SF: PodCastle & PseudoPod

StarShipSofa is a true magazine format (short works, longer works, poetry, fact, & editorial; most in each episode) podcast targeting SF.

LibriVox has a lot of everything; think Project Gutenberg read aloud. Not podcasts, per se, but simple straight readings of unabridged works.

SFF Audio is a review site that frequently has links to selected SF podcasts and audio dramas in addition to reviewing commercial works. I recommend subscribing to their RSS feed.

Again not a podcast, Podiobooks is a good source for free audio books in various genres including SF. Most are longer book length works where most podcasts concentrate on short stories and short novellas.

Cory Doctorow's podcasts at craphound.com often contain his own readings of his works.

[charlesatan]

Originally Posted by stonetools

Can some wise , industrious and generous person compile a list of sites where you can get SF stories as podcasts? TIA!


I know of
Escape Pod
Clarkesworld

and now

LIghtspeed

Any others?

Audible.com although it's a paid subscription service.

Various authors have their works available as podcasts such as Mur Lafferty.

My go to place though are the three you mentioned, although SFF Audio is the de facto website to go to for news. (Disclaimer: ex-contributor to SFF Audio.)

Edit: I forgot to add Starship Sofa.

[Marrella]

Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda

Emissaries from the Dead is his first Andrea Cort novel. I haven't read it, but his other nominated story, "With Unclean Hands" featured Andrea and was quite good.

Thanks, this looks interesting. I just sent a sample to my Kindle.

Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda

I'm one of the people who deeply enjoyed Kij Johnson's The Man Who Bridged the Mist, so I was very pleased to see it win.

I finished it last night. Sadly, it's not among my favorite stories this year, even though I liked the idea of building bridges over the mist instead of water. For some reason, I just couldn't connect with the characters.

And by the way, I really liked your story Movement.

[Marrella]

Originally Posted by BenG

I listened to the audiobook of Among Others and really enjoyed it. It was read with a Welsh accent that took a few minutes for me to understand everything she was saying but after I got used to it it was a great performance.

It's a fantasy written as an ode to science fiction.

I have listened to the sample at Audible and thought it was terrific. My next credit will very likely be spent on this book. Lately, I love rereading books by listening to them. Not to mention that Katherine Kellgren is one of my favorite narrators ever since I listened to Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis last year.

[Marrella]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

EDIT: Hmmmm... $7.49 directly from Audible.com... $21.83 when going through Amazon. Both are the same unabridged version.

The first one looks like the subscription price while the latter one seems to be the price for non-members. Just a thought.

As for Sturz der Marionetten only being available for Kindle as a German translation is indeed weird. Sometimes you just can't fathom what publishers are thinking.

[Marrella]

Originally Posted by stonetools

Can some wise , industrious and generous person compile a list of sites where you can get SF stories as podcasts? TIA!


I know of
Escape Pod
Clarkesworld

and now

LIghtspeed

Any others?

I second the recommendation for StarshipSofa and the SFF Audio Podcast. StarshipSofa has become a complete SF audio magazine, and SFF Audio is now doing stories as well as their usual news podcasts. During the past six months, they did a couple of short stories as well as two complete novels: The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells and The Syndic by Cyril Kornbluth.

I haven't listened to The Syndic, but the Wells was a book from Tantor Media they were allowed to podcast, it was pretty good.

There's also the Forgotten Classics podcast which you might want to check out. At the moment, they are doing Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart, and their archive can be found here.