2008 Nebula Awards Winners

As you've probably read elsewhere by now the Nebula winners were as follows:

NOVEL : The Yiddish Policemen's Union , Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)

NOVELLA : "Fountain of Age", Nancy Kress (Asimov's Jul 2007)

NOVELETTE : "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", Ted Chiang (F&SF Sep 2007; Subterranean Press)

SHORT STORY  : "Always", Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)

SCRIPT : Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro

ANDRE NORTON AWARD : Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic)

I thought the Ted Chiang story was pretty good, but missing something, not quite up to the standard of some of his other stuff I've read. I really enjoyed "Always", very almost-weird-but-probably-not, but couldn't quite decide if it was SF, which I gather is the sort of thing that Karen Joy Fowler excels at. Pan's Labyrinth was good too, and of course the last Harry Potter book was not very good, but made kids read thousands of pages, so must be applauded.

Now have to put The Yiddish Policemen's Union on my to-read list.