Nebula Preliminary Ballot

It's gargantuan as usual, and most of the works on it won't make it to the Final Ballot. (But we all know that.)

I'm just amazed to discover that there is an award that Jonathan Strange didn't win yet.

Things that make me happy:

• Novels I liked by Bujold, Clarke, Mieville and Pratchett are nominated.
  
• Novels I still want to read by Haldeman, McDevitt, Ryman, Stevenson and Williams are also nominated.
  
• Robert Sawyer's "Identity Theft," a story from an original SFBC anthology (Down These Dark Spaceways, edited by Mike Resnick), was nominated. Go us!
  
• There are only two items in the "Script" category, and one of them has disputed eligibility; maybe SFWA can kill this very silly category.