The 2012 Nebula Award Winners have been announced by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. According to their site:
The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by the active members
of SFWA for outstanding science fiction and fantasy published in 2012.
The awards were announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet held at in San
Jose, CA, May 16-20.
The Winner of the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy is:
Fair Coin, E.C. Myers
When evil versions of himself and best friend Nate appear one day,
teenaged Ephraim embarks on a dangerous odyssey through parallel worlds
to make things right.
Here is the list of the nominees:
Iron Hearted Violet, Kelly Barnhill
"Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for
her own good, particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she
and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a
peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being --
called the Nybbas -- imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true
-- not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along
with an ancient, scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's
triumph . . . or its demise"
Black Heart, Holly Black
Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his
decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who
has joined her father's criminal organization.
Above, Leah Bobet
When insane exile Corner and his army of mindless, whispering shadows
invade Safe, a secret underground community of freaks and disabled
outcasts, Matthew, traumatized shapeshifter Ariel, and other misfits go
to the dangerous place known as Above
, where Matthew makes a shocking discovery about the histories entrusted to him.
The Diviners, Libba Bray
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from
small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of
occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum
of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of
the investigation.
Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst
When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people
abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon
meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and
he needs Liyana's help to find them.
Seraphina, Rachel Hartman
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and
dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth
to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal
scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary
musical talents.
Enchanted, Alethea Kontis
When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to sisters named for the
other six days of the week, kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back
into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland--a man Sunday's family
despises.
Every Day, David Levithan
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different
person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until
he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's
girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Summer of the Mariposas, Guadalupe Garcia McCall
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia
and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to
his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a
warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Railsea, China Miéville
Traveling aboard the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap finds something
amidst the wreckage of another train, a treasure map showing a mythical
place untouched by iron rails, which leads him on a journey of danger
and excitement.
Above World, Jenn Reese
In a future of high technology and genetic modification the Coral
Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World, but
when the devices that allows them to breathe underwater start to fail,
thirteen-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place
to find help.
