Locus Online’s version of the final Nebula ballot is now posted (and integrated into the SF Awards index, at least insofar as the Nominee Indexes are concerned), and I couldn’t help but noticing a significant fact: that, despite the rolling 2-year eligibility rule for Nebula nominations, almost all of this year’s final ballot consists of books and stories published last year, 2007, with only a very few leftovers from 2006. I checked, and the proportion of recent to leftover eligibles has never been higher than on this year’s ballot.
Don’t know that that means anything…; certainly the disconnect between nominees and the favorites of the various Locus Recommended Reading List is just as wide. I’m not *quite* as cynical as CNB about the Nebula nominating process (see February’s editorial), but the facts, er, the nominations, speak for themselves.
