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March 4th, 2009 2:25 PM

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Star Trek: The Last Generation nominated for Best Comic Book Series!!

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Quickie #3 - The 2008 Roundtable Award Nominees

Submitted by John S. Drew on March 1, 2009 - 6:00pm
We release the list of nominees for this year's Roundtable Awards ceremony that will be held on April 6th. Orenthal, Dan, and David join John to discuss the nominees in this Quickie episode. Please remember to rate the episode below and to offer your thoughts here.

Best Writer of a Novel, Short Story, or Comic Book
Jim Butcher – Small Favor, Princeps' Fury
Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
David Mack – Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night, Star Trek Destiny: Mere Mortals, Star Trek Destiny: Lost Souls
Terry Pratchett – Nation
Ian Randal Strock – “Mars is the Wrong Color”

Best Editor of a Magazine, Anthology, or Comic Book
Ellen Datlow – The Del Ray Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices
Keith R.A. DeCandido – Doctor Who Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership
Mark S. Deniz & Amanda Pillar – Voices
Joe Quesada – Marvel Comics
Stanley Schmidt – Analog Science Fiction & Fact

Best Artist of a Comic Book
Olivier Coipel - Thor
Jae Lee - Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, Dark Tower: Treachery
Alex Ross - Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook, Project Superpowers
Dustin Weaver - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Legacy
JK Woodward - Fallen Angel, X-Men Origins

Best Cover Artist of a Book, Magazine, or Comic Book
Bryan Hitch – Fantastic Four, Wildstorm Fine Arts, Giant-Size Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Force, Captain Britain & MI13
Georges Jeanty – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight
J.G. Jones - Final Crisis, Marvel Boy
John Picacio - Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, Star Trek: Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves, Star Trek: Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fearful Symmetry, Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism, Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Echoes and Refractions, Elric: The Stealer of Souls
Alex Ross - Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Beautie, Justice Society of America, Avengers/Invaders, Superman, Batman, Captain America, Project Superpowers, Red Sonja, Black Adam: The Dark Age

Best Novel
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Free Fall by Laura Anne Gilman
Underground by Kat Richardson
Galaxy Blues by Alan Steele

Best Short Story
"Empty Spaces" by Michael A. Burstein in I Remember the Future
“I Remember the Future” by Michael A. Burstein in I Remember the Future
“Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen” by Terri Osborne in Doctor Who: Short Trips 24: The Quality of Leadership
“Mars is the Wrong Color” by Ian Randall Strock in Nature

Best Anthology of Short Stories
I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein
Voices ed by Mark Deniz and Amanda Pillar
The Starry Rift, ed. by Jonathan Strahan

Best Nonfiction Book
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
Up Til Now: The Autobiography by William Shatner
The Presidential Book of Lists: From Most to Least, Elected to Rejected, Worst to Cursed-Fascinating Facts About Our Chief Executives by Ian Randal Strock

Best Comic Book
All Star Superman
The Amazing Spider-Girl
Locke & Key
100 Bullets
Star Trek: The Last Generation

Best Manga
StarCraft: Frontline Volume 1
Fairy Tail
Death Note

Best Web Comic
EZ Street
Real Life Comics
xkcd
Sheldon
Second Empire

Best Fiction Magazine
Abyss & Apex
Analog

Best Nonfiction Magazine
Maxim
Entertainment Weekly
Sky and Telescope
SF Scope
New Scientist

Best Fanzine
Argentus

Best TV Episode
“Forest of the Dead“ - Doctor Who
"Power Hungry" - Fringe
"The Constant" - Lost
"Alison from Palmdale” - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
"The Invisible Hand of Fate" - The Venture Bros.

Best Movie
The Dark Knight
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Twilight
Wall-E

Best Special Effects in a Movie or TV Series
Battlestar Galactica
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Stargate Atlantis

Best Podcast
Better in the Dark
The Chronic Rift
Doctor Who: Podshock
The Gamer's Haven Podcast
Scapecast

Best Website
Cinefantastique Online
The Chronic Rift
DungeonMastering.com
SF Scope
Twitter

Best Director of a TV Show or Movie
Jon Favreau - Iron Man
Graeme Harper - Doctor Who
Clark Johnson - The Wire, The Shield, Flashpoint, Eleventh Hour
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E

Best Performer in a TV Show or Movie
Michael Chiklis - The Shield
Aaron Eckhart - The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Catherine Tate - Doctor Who
David Tennant - Doctor Who

Best Writer of a TV Show or Movie
Toni Graphia - Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Drew Goddard - Lost
Marc Guggenheim - Eli Stone
Steven Moffatt - Doctor Who
Matt Nix - Burn Notice

Best Animation
Kung Fu Panda
Moribito no Seirei (Guardian of the Sacred Spirit)
Spectacular Spider-Man
The Venture Bros.
Wall-E

Best Character
Abby Grant (Julie Graham) – Survivors
Bubbles (Andre Royo) - The Wire
Captain America – Captain America
The Joker (Heath Ledger) - The Dark Knight
River Song (Alex Kingston) – Doctor Who

Best Thing of 2008
The year ended.
Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog
End of the Bush era
Change of guard on Doctor Who
The release of Deborah Grabien's Rock and Roll Never Forgets
The return of the Choose Your Own Adventure series
A matter of Loaf and Death - New Wallace and Grommit Adventure
Giants win the Superbowl
The release of I Remember the Future
Middle-Man TV Series
Chuck
Increase in Genre/Media Tie-In related websites (Chronic Rift, Unreality SF)
The super hero movie as serious cinema

Hall of Fame
Arthur C. Clarke

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