{"id":3866,"date":"2015-04-18T23:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2015-04-19T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T04:00:12","slug":"2015-nebula-awards-see-you-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/2015-nebula-awards-see-you-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Nebula Awards &#8211; See You In Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3867\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NebulasPostcardFront-1024x731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3867\" class=\"wp-image-3867 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NebulasPostcardFront-1024x731-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"NebulasPostcardFront-1024x731\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NebulasPostcardFront-1024x731-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NebulasPostcardFront-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NebulasPostcardFront-1024x731-624x445.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America\u2019s 50th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend will be held in Chicago, Illinois June 4 through 7, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My plane and hotel are booked, I&#8217;ve researched the best place to get a hot dog near the Awards Hotel, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing folks at the Nebulas in Chicago in the first week of June.<\/p>\n<p>By then my brand new Nikon should be just about worn in, and I&#8217;ll be submitting coverage to anyone who wants it. Typically, Locus uses a few of my shots, and SFRevu will be running a gallery of them.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff on this year&#8217;s list. Ann Leckie is back with <strong>Ancillary Sword<\/strong>, Jack McDevitt&#8217;s <strong>Coming Home<\/strong>\u00a0 was a welcome addition to both the Alex Benedict series and these awards, as is my friend Chuck Gannon&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Trial by Fire. <\/strong>I haven&#8217;t read either <strong>The Three Body Problem, <\/strong> or <strong>Annihilation <\/strong>yet, but I&#8217;m intrigued by both and will get it done before then. I&#8217;ve been off reading shorter works, paradoxically because I don&#8217;t have time, but did read <strong>We Are All Completely Fine<\/strong> by one of my favorite authors, Daryl Gregory, and I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going, drop me a line or something and maybe we&#8217;ll grab a beer at the bar, or head over to Jim&#8217;s Original on Union Ave for his famous red hot dog with plenty of &#8220;sport peppers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links \/ References <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SFWA; Nebula Weekend Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/nebula-awards\/nebula-weekend\/\">http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/nebula-awards\/nebula-weekend\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SFWA; 2014 Nebula Awards Nomiees; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2015\/02\/2014-nebula-awards-nominees-announced\/\">http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2015\/02\/2014-nebula-awards-nominees-announced\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jim&#8217;s Original; The best place to get a hot dog near the event at 1250 S Union Ave; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsoriginal.com\/jimsoriginal\/Welcome\/\">http:\/\/www.jimsoriginal.com\/jimsoriginal\/Welcome\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plane and hotel are booked, I&#8217;ve researched the best place to get a hot dog near the Awards Hotel, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing folks at the Nebulas in Chicago in the first week of June. By then my brand new Nikon should be just about worn in, and I&#8217;ll be submitting coverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sfcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}