2010 Nebula Awards winners

The SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) have announced their 2009 award winners.

Novel

The Windup Girl
- Paolo Bacigalupi

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man" ( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.

windupstories.com

Novella

The Women of Nell Gwynne’s
- Kage Baker

Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne’s. Nell Gwynne’s is far more than simply the finest and most exclusive brothel in Whitehall; it is in fact the sister organization to the Gentlemen’s Speculative Society, that 19th-century predecessor to a certain Company...and when a member of the Society goes missing on a peculiar assignment, it’s up to Lady Beatrice and her sister harlots to investigate.

http://www.kagebaker.com/

Novelette

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
- Eugie Foster

Each morning is a decision. Should I put on the brown mask or the blue? Should I be a tradesman or an assassin today?

Whatever the queen demands, of course, I am. But so often she ignores me, and I am left to figure out for myself who to be.

Dozens upon dozens of faces to choose from.

You can read the full story at http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2009/08/novelette-sinner-baker-fabulist-priest-red-mask-black-mask-gentleman-beast-by-eugie-foster/

Short Story

Spar
- Kij Johnson

You can read the full story here at clarkesworldmagazine.com

Ray Bradbury Award

District 9
- Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell

http://www.d-9.com/

Andre Norton Award

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- Catherynne M. Valente

Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her father’s house, where she washed the same pink and yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were very large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her, and flew to her window one evening just after her eleventh birthday. He was dressed in a green smoking jacket, and a green carriage-driver’s cloak, and green jodhpurs, and green snowshoes. It is very cold above the clouds, in the shanty-towns where the Six Winds live.

You can read the full story here at http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland/

Additional Honors

Joe Haldeman was honored as the next Damon Knight Grand Master
Neal Barrett, Jr., was honored as Author Emeritus
Vonda N. McIntyre and Keith Stokes were honored with SFWA Service Awards
Tom Doherty, Terri Windling and the late Donald A. Wollheim were awarded the SFWA Solstice Award, bestowed upon individuals who have made a significant impact on the science fiction or fantasy landscape

You can see all the nominations listed at http://sfbk.blogspot.com/2010/04/2009-nebula-award-nominations.html