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2007 Nebula Awards® Weekend11-13 May 2007Marriott, Financial Center
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The Board of Directors of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. is pleased to announce that writer, editor and professor James Gunn has been chosen to receive the 2007 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
James Gunn's impact on the field of science fiction has been enormous. He began writing in 1948 and has authored 26 novels and over one hundred short stories. Carl Sagan lauded his novel, The Listeners, as one of the finest first-contact novels ever written.
The presentation of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award will take place at the SFWA Nebula Awards Weekend, May 11-13 at the Marriott Hotel in the Financial Center, New York City, New York. Interested members of the public are welcome.
— Robin Wayne Bailey
President,
SFWA, Inc.
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David Guy Compton will be participating in the 2007 Nebula Awards® Weekend as Author Emeritus.
Born in the United Kingdom, Compton moved to the United States in 1981. Writing as D.G. Compton, Guy Compton, or Frances Lynch, he published over thirty SF, romance and mystery novels between 1965 and 1996. His better-known works include The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, which was filmed as La mort en direct (Deathwatch); and The Steel Crocodile, a 1971 Nebula Best Novel nominee.
SFWA began its Author Emeritus program in 1995 as a way of recognizing senior writers who have made significant contributions to our field.
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Ron D. Moore, head writer and executive producer of the Sci-Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica, will serve as our Toastmaster. Moore also served as executive producer of the acclaimed HBO series Carnivàle as well as co-executive producer of the series Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Roswell.
Moore is a native of Chowchilla, California and attended Cornell University, where he studied political science. He lives in California with his wife, Terry. He has three children, Robin, Roxy and Jonathan.
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Brook West is the Nebula Awards Report Editor for SFWA. He got a degree in physical geography with a minor in biology so he could create worlds and populate them. He's had science fiction and fantasy stories published in several anthologies, including Writers of the Future, and several magazines. His favorite milieu is feudal Japan. He also creates starship deck plans (including some for ships in several of his wife Julia's stories). He often collaborates on stories with Julia. They live in West Jordan, Utah. Visit his website.
Julia West has helped Brook with the NAR by doing data entry for recommendations and dealing with the printing and mailing of the Nebula ballots. She got a degree in anthropology so she could people the worlds Brook creates. She is a past Gold Award winner for Writers of the Future and has had stories published recently in Realms of Fantasy and Oceans of the Mind. She and Brook have two teenage daughters who also write science fiction and fantasy, nine cats, three adorable rats, and way too many goldfish. Visit her website.
The 2007 Nebula Awards Weekend will be held Friday, May 11th through Sunday, May 13th at the Marriott in the Financial Center, New York City, 85 West Street, New York, NY 10006 USA
The Nebula Awards weekend is open to the public.
— Diane Turnshek
SFWA Eastern Regional Director
http://sff.net/people/diane/
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