dalton@gladys.UUCP (David Dalton) (02/14/86)
This is a what the final ballot looks like for the Nebula Awards for 1985. Ballots are now on the way to SFWA members and must be returned by March 20. The awards will be given in San Francisco in April. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1985 NEBULA AWARD FINAL BALLOT Nebula Finalists are listed on this ballot in alphabetical order by title. +-----------+ | NOVEL | +-----------+ BLOOD MUSIC Greg Bear DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE Tim Powers ENDER'S GAME Orson Scott Card HELLICONIA WINTER Brian W. Aldiss THE POSTMAN David Brin THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD Barry Malzberg SCHISMATRIX Bruce Sterling +-----------+ | NOVELLA | +-----------+ 24 VIEWS OF MT. FUJI, BY HOKUSAI Roger Zelazny THE GORGON FIELD Kate Wilhelm GREEN DAYS IN BRUNEI Bruce Sterling GREEN MARS Kim Stanley Robinson THE ONLY NEAT THING TO DO James Tiptree, Jr. SAILING TO BYZANTIUM Robert Silverberg +-----------+ | NOVELET | +-----------+ DOGFIGHT Michael Swanwick & William Gibson THE FRINGE Orson Scott Card A GIFT FROM THE GRAYLANDERS Michael Bishop THE JAGUAR HUNTER Lucius Shepard PALADIN OF THE LOST HOUR Harlan Ellison PORTRAITS OF HIS CHILDREN George R.R. Martin ROCKABYE BABY S.C. Sykes +---------------+ | SHORT STORY | +---------------+ FLYING SAUCER ROCK AND ROLL Howard Waldrop THE GODS OF MARS Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, & Michael Swanwick HEIRS OF THE PERISPHERE Howard Waldrop HONG'S BLUFF William F. Wu MORE THAN THE SUM OF HIS PARTS Joe Haldeman OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS Nancy Kress PAPER DRAGONS James P. Blaylock SNOW John Crowley The top five finishers in each category are on the final ballot. The Nebula Jury added one work in each category. In addition, a fifth-place tie in the novel category and a three-way fifth-place tie in the short story category added additional works to the ballot. In the novelet category, the Rules Committee determined that if it received enough votes to qualify (which it did), PALADIN OF THE LOST HOUR, which was incorrectly listed on the preliminary ballot as a short story, should be added to the novelet category without displacing any novelet that would otherwise have reached the final ballot. The ballots were opened in the presence of the counting committee, presided over by Rules Committee chairman John Kessel, who made final rulings on the validity of ballots in the handful of cases where questions arose. (The NAR editor, detained by a flight from Salt Lake City, did not arrive until counting was already under way.) A total of 285 members voted. -- David Dalton, SF Writers' Network, Bethania, NC (919-922-3308 300/1200/2400 baud [ihnp4!burl!gladys!dalton] a TBBS system)