{"id":3777,"date":"2012-05-20T03:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2012-05-20T03:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T08:28:51","slug":"jo-walton-wins-the-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/05\/20\/jo-walton-wins-the-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Walton wins the Nebula!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2012\/05\/2011-nebula-awards-announced\/\">2011 Nebula Awards<\/a> were awarded last night and the deserved winner in the novel category is an old friend of mine &#8212; Jo Walton:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nNovel Winner: <cite>Among Others<\/cite>, Jo Walton (Tor)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOther Nominees\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Embassytown<\/cite>, China Mi\u00e9ville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)<\/li>\n<li><cite>Firebird<\/cite>, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)<\/li>\n<li><cite>God\u2019s War<\/cite>, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)<\/li>\n<li><cite>Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti<\/cite>, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Kingdom of Gods<\/cite>, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nUnlike this year&#8217;s Hugo Awards, which were disappointing to say the least, that Nebula shortlist is fairly strong, with only the Jack McDevitt &#8211;who has never written anything not bland and workmanlike&#8211; out of place. It was also nicely diversive, with five out of six nominees being women and at least one person of colour (N. K. Jemisin) on it. In a genre where all too often award shortlists are filled with legacy white male candidates, more voted for due to their name than their books, this is a good thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2011\/02\/03\/among-others-jo-walton\/\">Among Others<\/a><\/cite> was one of the best novels I read last year and I&#8217;m glad it got the recognition it deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Nebula Awards were awarded last night and the deserved winner in the novel category is an old friend of mine &#8212; Jo Walton: Novel Winner: Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) Other Nominees Embassytown, China Mi\u00e9ville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press) Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books) God\u2019s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1267,138,1617],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-among-others","tag-jo-walton","tag-nebula-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}