The winners of the Nebula Award for Science Fiction as chosen by the writers of the Science Fiction Writers of America have been announced.
Winners of the 2004 Nebula Awards were announced at a banquet Saturday evening, April 30, in Chicago, Illinois.
# NOVEL Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos):
Which means Bujold manages the relatively uncommon feat of having her novel win both an Hugo and a Nebula.
# NOVELLA "The Green Leopard Plague", Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)
# NOVELETTE "Basement Magic", Ellen Klages (F&SF May 2003)
# SHORT STORY "Coming to Terms", Eileen Gunn (Stable Strategies and Others)
# SCRIPT The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema; based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien)
Other awards, as previously announced, were presented: the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award was given to Anne McCaffrey, and the Service to SFWA Award was presented to Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Both were present to accept their awards.
All winners were present except for Walter Jon Williams, whose award was accepted by Gardner Dozois, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King scripters, whose award was accepted by Steven H Silver.
Next year's Nebula Awards banquet will be held in Tempe, Arizona.