Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who took home the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation at this year’s Nebula Award over the weekend for “The Doctor’s Wife.”
Doctor Who has been nominated for the award before, but this is the first time the series took home the trophy. “The Doctor’s Wife” beat several Holloywood movies including Martin Scorsese’s Hugo and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
Here’s the full list of Nebula winners.
Novel Winner: Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
Other Nominees
- Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)
- Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)
- God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
- Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)
- The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Novella Winner: “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011)
Other Nominees
- “Kiss Me Twice”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011)
- “Silently and Very Fast”, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press;Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011)
- “The Ice Owl,” Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2011)
- “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”, Ken Liu (Panverse Three, Panverse Publishing)
- “With Unclean Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2011)
Novelette Winner: “What We Found,” Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2011)
Other Nominees:
- “Fields of Gold,” Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4, Night Shade Books)
- “Ray of Light,” Brad R. Torgersen (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011)
- “Sauerkraut Station,” Ferrett Steinmetz (Giganotosaurus, November 2011)
- “Six Months, Three Days,” Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June 2011)
- “The Migratory Pattern of Dancers”, Katherine Sparrow (Giganotosaurus, July 2011)
- “The Old Equations”, Jake Kerr (Lightspeed Magazine, July 2011)
Short Story Winner: “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011)
Other Nominees:
- “Her Husband’s Hands”, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
- “Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son”, Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011)
- “Movement”/a>, Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011)
- “Shipbirth”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2011)
- “The Axiom of Choice”, David W. Goldman (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
- “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Winner: Doctor Who: “The Doctor’s Wife,” Neil Gaiman (writer), Richard Clark (director) (BBC Wales)
Other Nominees
- Attack the Block, Joe Cornish (writer/director) (Optimum Releasing; Screen Gems)
- Captain America: The First Avenger, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely (writers), Joe Johnston (director) (Paramount)
- Hugo, John Logan (writer), Martin Scorsese (director) (Paramount)
- Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen (writer/director) (Sony)
- Source Code, Ben Ripley (writer), Duncan Jones (director) (Summit)
- The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi (writer/director) (Universal)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Winner: The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)
Other Nominees
- Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial Books; Bloomsbury)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
- The Girl of Fire and horns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books)
- Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (Orchard Books; Carolrhoda Lab)
2011 DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD: Connie Willis
SOLSTICE AWARD: Octavia Butler (posthumous) and John Clute
SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD: Bud Webster