Nebula Award!

So a cool thing happened: Network Effect won the Nebula Award for Best Novel!

I was really shocked and floored. I really didn't think it would win. We had invited some (vaccinated) friends over to watch the ceremony live on YouTube but I also had to be logged in to a zoom "green room" the whole time, so we spent a lot of Friday and Saturday housecleaning, getting party food at the store, and trying to reconfigure our internet to be robust enough to make this work. (Because of the way the live broadcast worked, if I got kicked out of the green room zoom because of a dropped connection, they wouldn't be able to let me back in.) We ended up directly connecting my laptop to the router, which worked great. And the Tiramisu cake from the HEB bakery was both beautiful and delicious.

There was a Nebula Red Carpet tag on Twitter for outfits, and I wore a dress I'd actually bought for the Dublin WorldCon, but the back wasn't sewn quite right, so wearing it for an online event was perfect. Here's some photos: https://twitter.com/AlyshondraM/status/1401309636859338752

Congrats to all the finalists and winners. I'm so proud of you all!

If you want to watch any bits of the ceremony, it's on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE1YtIKm8Xk

BEST NOVEL - Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

BEST NOVELLA - Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)

BEST NOVELETTE - “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com)

BEST SHORT STORY - “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots)

THE ANDRE NORTON NEBULA AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)

BEST GAME WRITING - Hades, Greg Kasavin (Supergiant)

THE RAY BRADBURY NEBULA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - The Good Place: “Whenever You’re Ready”, Michael Schur, NBC (Fremulon/3 Arts Entertainment/Universal)

Additional awards and honors presented:

THE SFWA DAMON KNIGHT MEMORIAL GRAND MASTER AWARD - Nalo Hopkinson

THE KATE WILHELM SOLSTICE AWARD - Jarvis Sheffield, Ben Bova (posthumous), & Rachel Caine (posthumous)

THE KEVIN J. O’DONNELL, JR. SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD - Connie Willis