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SF author Joe Haldeman, whose novel Camouflage has been nominated for a Nebula Award, told SCI FI Wire that the award and the ceremony have changed since he won his first Nebula, for the 1974 novel The Forever War. He called that award "old-style" and described it thusly in an interview: "[It] had a model galaxy imbedded over a miniature mountain of amethyst." His other Nebulas are "new-style, with a round mineral that looks like a miniature planet, surmounted by the model galaxy. An artist member, William Rotsler, went to a rock show and found dozens of these planetlike rocks dirt cheap; I was president [of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America] at the time and authorized him to buy a bushel of them for Nebulas."
Haldeman also said the Nebula Award ceremony changes from year to year, depending on who is SFWA president, who the president appoints and who are the board of directors. One year in New Orleans, Haldeman was president and hired a string quartet to play before and after the banquet. "Some people thought that was a little much, but I enjoyed it!" he said.
Haldeman has won four Nebulas. Besides The Forever War, Haldeman won for the novel Forever Peace in 1998, and he has others for his 1990 novella "The Hemingway Hoax" and the 1993 short story "Graves." He said winning never gets old, but the first victory is always the sweetest. "Later in your career, it's more of an affirmation that you're still in the game," he said. "There is a certain amount of resistance to giving someone an award after he or she already has one or two or three or four! But then, if you're well-known, your book is more likely to be read and voted for."
Haldeman also has five Hugos and considers that award more prestigious than the Nebula, which he ranks second. "I value the Hugo more ... because it's voted on by readers who actually went out and bought the book," he said. "The Nebula is sometimes affected by politicking, and sometimes a publisher can affect the vote by sending out freebies. That can be an expensive proposition with a hardback, given that SFWA has over 1,500 members. If a book wins both the Hugo and Nebula [as The Forever War did], it's probably pretty good."
The Nebula, voted for and presented by the SFWA, will be awarded May 6 in Tempe, Ariz. —Lee Barnathan
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