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2006 Nebula Awards (Best SciFi)
If you know Jarred, you know he is a few things...

One) He's a SAMA fan. Sports anime and manga is what he is about. So much so I have to go get Hajime no Ippo dj's for him when I go to Comiket. I might give him a special treat this winter by shopping in the Formula 1 section. Imagine his face when he gets a Schumacher doujinshi!

Two) He is a sci-fi fan. He has done a couple shows on sci-fi and come on anyone who would dare read Project ARMS and admit he enjoyed it is dedicated. The repressed rage that was felt when he found out I got The Two Faces of Tomorrow could have caused an office fire.

Three) He sure as heck ain't a moe fan. Just by association he isn't a MediaWorks fan. If he knew enterbrain! released more bishojo than alternative he'd possibly avoid Comix Beam altogether also. I won't tell if you don't.

So when Jarred found out about the 2006 Nebula Awards included a couple manga titles (one of them recently licensed) he immediately shot me and David an email. SF titles tend to be pushed back into the recesses of manga magazines. Actually the good stuff might not even make it into manga form anymore. The great properties are Hayakawa Shoten exclusives by default.

Best SF Novel

WINNER サマー／タイム／トラベラー by: 新城　カズマ Summer/Time/Traveler by: Sinjow Kazma Hayakawa Shobo/2+ vols

ハイドゥナン　 by: 藤崎　慎吾 Haidounan by: Fujisaki Shingo Hayakawa Shobo/2 vols

シャングリ・ラ by: 池上永一 Shangri La by: Ikegami Eiichi Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten

デカルトの密室 by: 瀬名 秀明 Decartes' Locked Room by: Sena Hideako Shinchousha/1 vol

Best SF Manga

WINNER 陰陽師 by: 岡野玲子/夢枕獏 Onmyouji by: Okuno Reiko/Yumekura Baku Hakusensha/13 vols

野蛮の園 by: 西川魯介 Savage Garden by: Nishigawa Rousuke Hakusensha/3 vols

輝夜姫 by: 清水玲子 Kaguya Hime by: Shimizu Reiko Publisher: Hakusensha/27 vols

いばらの王 by: 岩原裕二 King of Thorn by: Iwahara Yuujji enterbrain!/6 vols

Best NonFiction

WINNER 失踪日記 by: 吾妻ひでお Disappearance Diary by: Azuma Hideo East Press/1 Vol

監督不行届 by： 安野モヨコ Director Off Guard by: Anno Moyoco Sodensha/1 vol

A couple of these are coming. And if publishers are reading this we want the rest some time soon. I especially want Onmyoji because it is one of the strangest looking/reading manga I read in a while. I wouldn't call it sci-fi, but definitely hi-fi. And reading about the Anno Household through Moyoco's storytelling sounds like a whole new world of sci-fi altogether.