Hugo Award nominees announced

The nominees for this year's Hugo Awards, for the best science fiction published in the previous year, were announced last week. The Hugos are nominated by and voted upon by fans -- those with memberships to the annual World Science Fiction Convention. Here are links into our catalog for the Best Novel nominees.

• Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
• Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

As an additional side note -- Lincoln SF author Robert Reed was nominated in the Best Novella category for "Truth", which appeared in the Oct/Nov 2008 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, also available in the libraries' collection.