{"id":13312,"date":"2011-05-21T20:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2011-05-21T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:55:29","slug":"and-the-winner-of-the-2010-nebula-award-for-best-novella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13312","title":{"rendered":"And the winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novella…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Swirsky!!<\/p>\n

Rachel Swirksy!!!!!<\/h2>\n

That’s right,<\/p>\n

Rachel Swirksy!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/u><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Rachel (known in these parts as Mandolin) just won the Nebula Award<\/a> for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Let me mention that the competition in Mandolin’s category this year was AWESOME. Paolo Bacigalupi, J. Kathleen Cheney, Ted Chiang, Geoffrey A. Landis, and Paul Park were the other nominees. That’s an amazing group to be in, and a hard, hard competition to win.<\/p>\n

I cannot possibly describe how thrilling it was sitting with Rachel when the award was announced. (As John Scalzi was reading the nominees, Rachel leaned across to me and mouthed “I know I didn’t win.”) I really wish I had a camera and the means to upload a photo, because lemme tell you, Rachel’s Nebula is gorgeous. (Every individual Nebula Award is unique, not identical to any other). I’m sure we’ll get photos up eventually!<\/p>\n

This is a big, big deal. Congratulations, Mandolin!<\/p>\n

(Oh, and since people will wonder if I don’t mention it, I didn’t win in my category — Terry Pratchett did. Hard to complain about losing to Terry Pratchett!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel Swirsky!! Rachel Swirksy!!!!! That’s right, Rachel Swirksy!!!!!!!!!!!! Rachel (known in these parts as Mandolin) just won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” Let me mention that the competition in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-mandolins-fiction-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13316,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions\/13316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}