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Out of This World Books and DVDs: 2013 Nebula Award Nominees

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have named their nominees for the 2013 Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Nebula Awards recognize the best works in Science Fiction and Fantasy published in the U.S. in the previous year. The awards will be presented in May.

Best Novel

  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
  • Fire with Fire, by Charles E. Gannon*
  • Hild, by Nicola Griffith
  • Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
  • The Red: First Light, by Linda Nagata*
  • A Stranger in Olondira, by Sofia Samatar
  • The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
  • Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

  • Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor"
  • Europa Report
  • Gravity
  • Her* (due to be released on DVD in May 2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • Pacific Rim
  • Andre Norton Award for Yound Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black
  • When We Wake, by Karen Healey
  • Sister Mine, by Nalo Hopkinson
  • The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • Hero, by Alethea Kontis
  • September Girls, by Bennett Madison
  • A Corner of White, by Jaclyn Moriarty
  • For a complete list of nominees check out the Nebula Awards site linked below.

    * denotes titles not currently owned by Richland Library.


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