The final ballot for the 2006 Nebula Awards was announced by SFWA (the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) late yesterday. The awards will be presented at the annual banquet during Nebula Awards Weekend, to be held May 11-13 in New York City.

Novels:

• The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (also available in the SFBC omnibus Swords of Riverside)
• Seeker by Jack McDevitt
• The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
• Farthing by Jo Walton
• From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
• To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy

Novellas:

• Burn by James Patrick Kelly (available in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Third Annual Collection)
• "Sanctuary" by Michael A. Burstein
• "The Walls of the Universe" by Paul Melko
• "Inclination" by William Shunn

Novelettes:

• "The Language of Moths" by Chris Barzak
• "Walpurgis Afternoon" by Delia Sherman
• "Journey into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert
• "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle
• "Little Faces" by Vonda N. McIntyre (available in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Third Annual Collection)

Short Stories:

• "Echo" by Elizabeth Hand
• "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" by Esther M. Friesner
• "The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations" by Eugene Mirabelli
• "Henry James, This One's For You" by Jack McDevitt
• "An End To All Things" by Karina Sumner-Smith
• "Pip and the Fairies" by Theodora Goss

Scripts:

• Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer
• Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt
• Battlestar Galactica: Unfinished Business by Michael Taylor
• Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace by Steven Moffat

Also to be awarded at that banquet is the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (which is not a Nebula):

• Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier (soon to be available in the SFBC omnibus The Magic of Reason)
• Devilish by Maureen Johnson
• The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
• Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Good luck to the nominees, and I hope to see many of you at the banquet!

Update, 3/5: Locus Online has posted the ballot on their site, including links to all of the authors' records in their awards database.