Nebula Award for Best Novel

out that Wednesday is a old god who wants Shadow to help him and the other old gods assert the newer gods. One of the central themes of this novel is faith. Gaiman demonstrated how the early immigrants arrived to the United States with their faith. It was their beliefs that influenced the United States and made it the country that it is today. Within his novel, Gaiman used the older and newer gods as a comparison to the older and newer generation. Gaiman used actual mythological gods as character roles

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. Although the book has often been challenged for removal from libraries in the US and Canada, sometimes successfully, Keyes refused to make the change and sold the story to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction instead. and

A. Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card that won both the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel. B. The main character of the book, Ender, is the younger brother of Peter and Valentine. He is afraid of his brother and loves his sister. When he is six years old he is chosen by the IF, or International Fleet, to save mankind from the bugger invasion. Wherever Ender happens to go, big things happen and by nine years old he is ready to

fiction. In the mid seventies, he got a B.A. In literature from the University of California-San Diego and the year after, earned an M.A. In English from Boston University. He also has a PhD in English, for which he wrote his doctoral thesis on the novels of Philip K. Dick (that later was published in hardback book form) after a professor recommended Dick's work to him. Besides writing, he has sold books and taught composition and other classes at the college level. With his wife, Lisa (who is an environmental

Mantle’s major forthcoming mini-series AMERICAN GODS. This is a significant award of work, which will include hundreds of both 2D and 3D shots. The 10 episode series, directed by David Slade and scheduled to broadcast in 2017, is based on the highly successful book of the same name by Neil Gaiman. The book was published in 2001 and won the prestigious 2002 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, SFX Magazine and Bram Stoker Awards, all for Best Novel. The series posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional

one of the many African Americans that represent the reason we celebrate Black History Month, the annual remembrance of the achievements of African Americans. She showed the achievements of African Americans with her writing skill. Particularly, her novels and short stories were very profound in the science fiction genre. Her hard work earned her special rewards and inspired others to reach to their potential and accomplish great things. Octavia E. Butler was born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California

in the military. He is even invited to go to Battle School, a military school on a ship far away from Earth. Ender even shows his ability to visualize gravitational effects and afterwards he is isolated from his peers because he is one of the best of the best. Ender becomes a ‘launchie’ along with his peers and makes a few new friends. Ender’s Game has really opened my eyes to show me that there is more than just Earth. It reminds me that there is another world out there among the stars. Ender’s Game

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott card is revered by many to be a staple in the science fiction genre, even winning Nebula and Hugo Award during the high point of its popularity, but what is it that has continued to draw readers in over the years. To begin, one should know the background events of the novel that lead to certain developments. An alien species that communicates through a hive mind and is capable of space travel happened upon Earth and tried to take over the planet twice. This leads to a

Some of the various science fiction novels the Gregory Benford wrote include: Jupiter Project, Find the Changeling, Time’s Rub, Artifact, Beyond the Fall of Night, Doing Lennon, etc. (Gregory). Although this is not all of the written works Benford had published, he found success writing in

For this summer of 2015 I read Enders Game for my summer reading. The author of this best seller is Orson Scott Card. This book won the 1985 Nebula award for best novel and the 1986 Hugo award for best novel. This famous novel was made into a major motion picture and in theaters during 2013. I choose Enders Game because either I had read every other book on the list or the other books did not interest me. Also Enders Game was available to me at the time so it was also convenient. Since the movie