okay, Folks become less Disorderly
So, we're About to start
[The] Ceremonies Which A number of you are interested in so you. May want to Pay [Attention] I don't know
First off Let me Say is everybody Having a good Time
Thank you all for coming, [We] have Tried to find as always A?
Toastmaster That is Worthy of the Occasion
This Year, We have dr.?
Chelle Lundgren he Is the leader of The 44th and 45th
Expedition to the international Space Station
So we have?
So we brought you Guys A real live Astronaut in Here Here?
Thank you so much I was A flight Engineer I was not the leader Just I want to Make that clear [so]
my wife
Claims That my Career Choices Have Been
Defined Or driven by how Comfortable the Clothes for each of Those Careers Were and
So when i joined the air Force it was so that I could wear A flight suit
Medicine in The Emergency Department Said I could wear Scrubs and then nasa again so that I could wear A flight suit
you all Look Fabulous tonight and
Because, We do not have formal wear in the Astronaut Corps i essentially get to wear my Pajamas so
Thank you nasa
Well it Is
Great to be here at this year's Cipro Conference and it was fun [to] learn that it's Pronounced if what I
Feel like i'm more of an Insider now
And I was delighted To learn that much Thought and Consternation went Into?
The Acronym The Letters and The Pronunciation and [that] it's not safe, wa or sophist wa?
Sif Wa and?
You all I am Sure are aware that I come from an Organization that Takes Great pride in its Acronyms
Are
Very Named Nasa Is an Acronym the national Aeronautics and Space Administration
[and] A Huge part of the Learning curve for when, we join?
Nasa's Astronaut Candidates Or Affectionately Known as as Cannes
Is learning that new Language of Acronyms and so We Have Acronyms that you pronounce T dress the tracking Data
Relay Satellite System
And Acronyms that you don't Pronounce like the lucky ba or extra vehicular Activity Is not [Ewa]
[e/m] use the extra vehicular Mobility units are not in Use
We have Acronyms inside of Acronyms like Safer Which is the Simplified aid for A va rescue or jetpacks and
Then Sometimes The Academics Are Unintentionally
Unintentionally Hides The Intent of that Which is being Named and so
Someone Starts out With a really cool word that they want to Name Their Project and then They Build Backwards and
and This of Course Is very Confusing to the crew Member that is now has this tool and has no idea what it Is
It's just Named something cool and so we Provided Feedback and Just Say hey
Let's Just Name The Scope Meter The Scope Meter and We'll all know what we're [Talking] About
We occasionally?
Obfuscate With With the With an Acronym
Occasionally to Make The Crew Member Feel Better and Astronauts do not wear Diapers
We wear mags?
Maximum Absorbency Garments
And that's important Because some of Us have fragile egos
Well I am
Absolutely Delighted To be here I have to [Say] This has Been an Amazing Experience
Many of You Have Commented on How it Feels to meet an Astronaut and I am Giddy with getting to meet
You all you are World Builders
Creators of Realms of Which I spent Countless Hours as a lonely Kid in High school or as a medical Student Looking for
Looking for Escape
You all created Those Worlds and Have
Have Helped at Times To explain This one and so you Can imagine that Is more Than a little
Intimidating to be A Toastmaster in Front of an Audience of Eloquent Wordsmiths whose Work
Inspired You to become an Astronaut and Yet you all have all been Incredibly Kind
Welcoming and Encouraging so thank you so much I
Now I recognize and I think Most astronauts Recognize what a unique Privilege
That We have Been Afforded the Opportunity to fly?
To live and Work in Space
Now I recognize How [special] that is Especially in This Community I've Gotten To experience Some of the Wonder that
We all dream about and that you all?
Eloquently Described so it's Been an absolute delight [to] Share That experience With you, over the past couple of Days [I] appreciate your Enthusiasm
Your interest in your Questions and I hope my answers Have Been an encouragement to you as
You Have Been an Encouragement and Inspiration to Me and to so Many Others on
The Space Station During my Downlink With Sas one I spoke of how
We at nasa are Turning science Fiction Into science fact and
We are
Now, We may not be moving As fast as some have envisioned but. We were Living much of the Future
Described by the Dreamers and writers of the Past
We have Been Living and Working on the [international] [Space] [Station] for 16 Years Now?
We have Robots doing Work all over the solar System and?
We were Preparing for our Journey to Mars?
and now yeah whoo, ha, ha, ha ha
And now you all are describing Futures for our scientists and Engineers to Realize
Some of you are describing the Dystopian Darkness that, We must strive to avoid?
The Sandbox That You build in Is altogether Amazing and Frightening
Breathtaking and Devastating
Entertaining and Enlightening and it has Been a, joy
These past Few Days to meet and Talk with Those of you who play in That Sandbox
And I know That Writing for Many of you is a Passion
for some it is a way to Pay the Bills and
for some of You there is a hope [that] it will someday be a way to Pay the bills
But Whatever your Motivation
Please do not underestimate
Your Power to inspire [I] am Here Today because of the power with science Fiction
So Reading and more Specifically the speculative Fiction that inspired me to pursue this Path are so important
That I like to Say that my Path to Space was Paved with Books?
so important that I put a book at the Foundation of my Expedition 45 Mission Patch
Now Take Every Opportunity
To impress The importance of Reading on the Kids that I talked to at schools and on my Own
Children and I'm Delighted to Say [that] I have a family of Bookworms
We are Particularly enamored of science Fiction and Fantasy?
and i'm Grateful to be able to attend this Conference to Participate in This Community and to listen to your thought your insights and Experience
This Job is Particularly
Delightful Because of the Community Created by the Powerful Emotions Memories and Dreams that so Many associate with Space flight
Many of You Have Shared with me your Recollection of Watching the Moon landings as a child
We're Watching a, rocket or a shuttle launch in Person or how you [Experienced] the Challenger Disaster
Many of You Have Visited a space Center
Or have A relative, Or friend that Works in The Aerospace Industry [and] [I] love Hearing These Stories
and it Struck Me [as] interesting
How Much We Desire To share Those insights and Connections and to establish our Role or our Place in Things that are Bigger Than Ourselves
and so i'd like to turn the tables and Share With you some [of] my insights and Perspectives
From my Mission to the international Space Station Now I'm Definitely not
The Wordsmith in The Room so I'm going to cheat and Use some Photos for my Mission
All right so
First I'm going to share With you?
The Books That Inspired Me When I can't These are the very First Books that [I] remember Reading Outside of like go Dogs go and
The Cat in The hat so let's See
So has Anybody Read the runaway Robot
That is The first science Fiction Book, that I read and that set me On a path and then Zebra Jet Ace
Is a nonfiction book about Joseph mcconnell Ace during the korean [war] and so this Really set the Trajectory for me
But what I would like to do is Actually Share With you some Perspective and insights From my Mission and so
I am A physician by training and so I have Organized These in Atomically
so insights perspectives From the Head
From the feet
From the gut and from the Heart
So this is a Photo of me From
at the end of my Second Spacewalk
[It] is a selfie [er] in my case it's at Shelfie
and
so this is my entree Into perspectives From the head so living and Working in [Space] that Is
My Favorite Part of This Experience On the international Space Station Truly Adapting to that Weightless Environment
Growing Up in Gravity, We all it was Interesting, We spoke About This in One of our recent Panels?
We all Grow up with a gravity bias and it's very Hard to Shed that so things that we expect or do Down Here?
We take that with Us to the Internet [to] to to [LoW-Earth] Orbit?
Even When the Environment that suggests a Different way of doing things [and] so one of Those things that
We would do on Friday nights Is that We Would all Gather Together our Crew Would Gather in The Russian segment of The Space Station?
And we'd have Dinner Together and Spend A couple of Hours [Just] Sharing our Experiences From the Week?
and then on Saturday nights, We invited our Russian Colleagues over to the u.s. Segment and
Had Movie Night and so here's A
Picture of Movie Night it's a little Dark but
We're all Gathered in Node one We have the Projector pointed to a big Screen and I think in This case, we're Watching the Martian
so in Space in Weightlessness [I]
Can Float in Front of you upright and be Completely Relaxed I Can Fall Asleep in That Position in fact that's what we do in
Our Sleeping Bags in our Crew Quarters
We are upright
Feet Towards the Ground Head Towards the the heavens and That's Perfectly Comfortable I Can Fall Asleep in That upright Position and yet
To Enjoy a Movie
Apparently you have [to] Bungee or
Hold on to something so you are in A sitting or lying Back Position and
Honestly if To Float and Watch A movie is uncomfortable you feel like, you're not Relaxing
so
Every Single Person is is forcing Themselves to sit down to Enjoy this this Joy this Film
Another Thing that I think is Really Remarkable About that Weightless Environment Is just this concept of Innovation and I think Innovation
in This Respect Comes from
Experience and Intentionality
That you Have to have Experience and Environment Understand that environment and then you have to be very Intentional
About Innovating About Thinking About how, We can do things Better and so I was Scheduled one day to Work on Robonaut
So as i said I am a physician had Spent Many Hours in The [Operating] room Holding Retractors for the surgeons
And this is how you do surgery and This Is how this Particular Procedure was prescribed it was to Have Robonaut
Bolted Down to the Ground and to put on our personal protective Equipment
Open Up the Chest and then to Work Inside The Thorax There for Repairs on Robonaut
And that Made sense to me this. Is that is the the Model that I am Familiar With from the o.r
Well Scott Kelly as I was Up I had the great Privilege of Flying With Scott Kelly While he
Was doing his One-Year Mission he Had Been Up on the Space Station Three three Months When I arrived and
Prior to that he Had Already Flown A Six-Month Mission and A couple of Space Shuttle Missions
So he's had A lot of Time in Space and he Married A very
Big Point About Constantly Trying To Improve and so when it Came Scott's [Kelly's] Turn to Work on Robonaut?
he Asked, hey Can I put Robonaut on the Wall and
So all he Had to do was Basically he Had Robonaut
Sitting Right in Front of Him right in Front of his face so all of his Work
Was done Right here [Whereas] I spent the [whole] Time?
There's no Gravity to pull your Torso Down so that's Activating my abdominal Muscles for the Two-Three Hours [that] I was Working on?
Robonaut and Then I got a backache as A result, of that as
Well Because of you know I'm?
Bending Over and Scott's Floating Right in Front of robonaut to do his Work and so I thought that was A remarkable
Demonstration of hey How Can We change the Work Environment to Make?
To do Things Smarter in This Environment [so]
Those Are Some Some insights From the Head now insights From the feet
[ok], so
You've Already eaten
So if your fair Warning if You are grossed out by feet, or have A feet foot thing
Then Close your Eyes Or leave the room, [ok]?
so
When, we get Up and Walk Around on [Earth] We?
Compress Several Layers of skin at the Bottom of our feet and
and That Builds up over Time and Friction and pressure Then Create Calluses and so
We all Have calluses at the Bottom of our feet as A result of Just getting Up and Walking Around in
Space you no longer Walk on your feet and
So all Those layer [this] layers, of skin
Decompress and What that means Is [that] over Time [all] that skin
Slough Off and so that Those Calluses
Slough Off in
fact
One of my Colleagues in A previous Mission Had not Been Briefed on this Didn't know that this was going to happen and
Part of His Heel Callus Like Came Off in A big Chunk and he Called Down like Worried that his Foot, was Falling Apart
Okay, so you're This Is last Warning here it Comes
so
so these are my feet it's about Three Months Into the Mission and
then The one on the right is Actually right before I return Home and That One Actually I think Looks a little Worse but in
Fact the skin on the Bottom of my feet and that on the right [side] [are] Baby soft and Smooth
And and all that that skin, Actually came off in my first Shower and that was Pretty gross too
But what this means Is that when You Take your socks off Is?
That you have to be Really Careful you slide the sock down your leg
Slowly and then You capture at the end and you tie it in A knot and you stick it in the trash Bag and you
Close it up
Because if You Just Grab the Top and you Just go Jump
And Fling it off you are Flinging like this big Ol Cloud of foot skin, everywhere for everybody
And that Is not being A good Crew, Mate
You, don't want to Expose all of your friends to
Floating Foot skin That They're Breathing in and They're Getting in Their Mouth it's very Disgusting
so Take Care of your Crew
You Can Almost Say That calluses Migrate and Here's Another issue so the calluses
Disappear From The Bottom of your feet and
They Move to the Top of your feet and
That's Because
in Order to Stay in Place to do Work
We hook our Feet Underneath Handrails and so that's how you have a Stable Foundation with which to do Work and so?
You develop Calluses on your instep at the Top of your foot
Ok, enough feet let's go on to something more Interesting gut insights from the gut, ok
It's not going to get gross They're not super [Us]
Not that Kind of A gut it Turns out if You Google Space and guts [That] There are Actually images that you Can Use for
For a talk like This it's pretty Amazing it's pretty Amazing what you [Can] find on Google
Food is Incredibly Important, We know it's Important here on the Earth and it's just as Important in Space it's how
We get Nutrition but it's, also psychologically Important, We [use] Food to celebrate, We Use Food to Commiserate and?
So when Thanksgiving rolled Around the ground told us hey
There's A special Thanksgiving Meal for you
you need to go find it Because we'd like to do a Pa O event on this a public affairs event and we thought
Special Food that Is awesome you guys sent Up a special Thanksgiving meal for Us
Where is it and
And then the Reply Came back, oh actually
We made a mistake There's no special meal We need you to build a thanksgiving meal out of your Rations and so and
We were at the end of our Rations so it wasn't in There so we Actually Had to go?
Scavenge from like next Week Rations and Pull the good Stuff out of There to build this meal so it
Was kind of A double Whammy so this Is our Delicious Thanksgiving meal we've got?
Smoked Turkey
Potatoes au Gratin some Corn and then This is candied Yams Which is terrible
The Truth Is after Three Weeks I'm sorry Three
Weeks Three Months five [Months] six Months in Space the [food] [lab] Does an Amazing Job of Trying to Provide
Nutritious Food that tastes Good
But the Bottom line Is when You've Been Eating the Same Thing over and [over] for for multiple Weeks that it starts to get Old
[and] so we Started Sharing Recipes on hey if you mix this with that you get this and it Tastes it's Interesting and so
You you, Really Seek out Variety and so you start Mixing some weird Stuff Together
[One] of my Favorite Mixtures Is not that Odd it was Taking our Dehydrated Strawberries and Putting it on Breakfast Waffles and so
So this was a Saturday Morning treat for me
It's Floating and it's floating Which is Pretty awesome
We also?
Include in our Bonus, We have Bonus Containers and so these are Food items that, we get to select and?
and and for a couple of Those Bonus Containers I actually selected Russian Food
The Russian Food is Actually pretty good [so] we all of our Food is [low-Sodium] to Keep you know to Keep us healthy
Unfortunately That doesn't do A whole Lot for the Taste and and so the Russian Food is Appropriately Salted
And There's Things like meat and Potatoes [and] Jellied Fish
It all Tastes Great it all Interestingly
Really Tastes Like the Same Thing so I don't [know] how Fish and Beef and Sausage all taste the same but
It tastes Good and you really can't do much Better than this This
[Is] a zip Uh [ski] a [petite] [Naya] Which Is
Appetizing Appetizer
So that is Always a treat
During our Mission
We got to Grow?
Lettuce [This], was that We?
Were The first American [Crew] to Grow and get to eat a crop in Space and so
We grew red Romaine Lettuce which was Phenomenal for [Those] Gardeners in The Audience of Course There is a psychological
Benefit to Gardening and That was Wonderful to do on the Space [Station] and then to eat it at the end
Felt a little weird because There Is this Thing that you, were of Course Pouring your Efforts Into and Then
Then you ate it but um
But We really Wanted Fresh Food so?
So, we got to eat the lettuce at the end I put it on A faux Cheeseburger and so that was pretty good and A
Faux Cheeseburger Is Tortilla Because, We don't Use a Bread in Space Because [of] the crumbs
so tortilla Rehydrated Beef Patty
[Cheez] [Whiz] and and it Actually it's Actually Pretty Good
And then I'm a. Coffee Freak and so I the Coffee in Space is actually pretty good it's Dehydrated
Kona so I had half Sweet kona with Cream it was Wonderful but I thought
I was going to really, miss Fresh Brewed
[Coffee] so I schemed Ahead of Time and Had some Pods of Coffee Set up sent up on a Cargo [Vehicle] and my
in my Care Packages I
Mounted Those on the Top of our Capillary Beverage Cup I took hot Water off the Galley and pushed it Through the
The Pod Into the Coffee Cup in Hand so I am Claiming the first first pour over in Space
Invention is the Mother of Necessity right Is that right Is
It Backward Entity That Backwards, Necessities The Mother Invention all right here We go I
Feel Really Bad [That] you Guys Are Standing Having to stand here While I'm doing this all [right]
Okay so those are insights from the gut the insights from the Heart
It is Said that?
You Can't See Borders from Space and so there are some Bummers from the Experience on the international Space [Station]
Looking Down at the Earth and not Seeing Borders Especially during the day
[but] then at night
Hearing News Coming Up and all the terrible Way Terrible things that, We do to each other
and
When you look at the Earth
and you Look down Especially when, you're Going over War-Torn Countries
and you Recognize this Finite Planet that We live on and
You you Just can't Help I wonder why can't We Figure out how to do this and get Along?
[and] so that Is
that is very difficult to Look back at the Earth and and
and See this beautiful
This Beautiful beautiful Planet that We live on but to recognize the Conflict and Strife that that you can't See
You Float over Amazing
These Amazingly beautiful sights Like This at all [and] so i took a picture of this to tWeet
But When i said the tweet Down Or sent the the Photo and my?
Message Down to the ground [they] Actually said yeah, we're not going to tweet this and I said why
So, well it is beautiful but you?
Know, I was going to Say Something about These These Boats Sheltering it in A toll and it Turns out This is Actually one of
The Islands That's Being Militarized in The in The [Southern] [Pacific]
And so that is Disappointing
The Earth at Night is Absolutely Amazing it is Absolutely Stunning and
Really Reveals Where our Populations Gather and
So this is a Photo of an Island and [you] see These beautiful Cities
if you Look at the let's see you look in The often the coast you see These Cities out Here and then you realize
Oh Actually Those aren't Cities that's
Ocean and Those Are Fishing Boats that, We Can See from from space Which is Amazing?
But then You realize that this isn't an Island
That This is Actually South Korea
And then if You go down [to] the Bottom Left that this is North Korea
And i'll show you over here so North Korea Is right Here
and
Those Countries Have I think Roughly the Same Populations and Yet One Exists in Almost complete Darkness
Many People ask me hey Can you see the great Wall of China from Space
and I'm not sure Where [that] Came from but Apparently it Is
That's something that we're Supposed to be able to See and
I say i could not even See, beijing from Space
and that's Because of The terrible Pollution in some Parts of
Continents and so you can See this Mountain Range and Off to the Left this Just
Tremendous Haze That Really Blocks our Ability to See
much of
Particular Continents and
Pollution
Has A very Clear Character it's this Yellowish [Ease] it's very Different from Clouds very Different from Just
General Smoke and
Then Affecting Those of you who are in Sas Quan last Year, Or I'm sorry a couple of Years ago
[We] can See forest Fires from Space?
They Are Tremendous
[Berry] Clear and Tremendous and so These are These are Pictures of the fires over [the] Northwest
While you are all at sas Kuan and so it's very Clear that There's something
Very Wrong Going on
We know that People Lost Their Lives in These fires and it's A it's?
Absolutely Amazing This Smoke Stretched From the Northwest You Could See it Stretch all the Way across the Continental Us
Pretty Amazing
So that's kind of A, downer but it's not all it's not all downers
Living on the international Space Station There's some Amazing things as, well
The Earth Is beautiful
So just Water
so Flying if You stick your head
Into The Window and Look Back at the Earth Chances Are Pretty good you're going to see some Water of Course
But Just the Character of Water i mean the intricate to etchings
of Wind and
Incurrence on the Water Surface as it reflects The sunlight is Absolutely beautiful
The Clouds Are Amazing This Is One of my
Favorite Pictures and Most Confusing [I]
Looked out the Window and you Can See These Fluffy Clouds on the right and then it Looks like Somebody's Dragged A
Giant Rake Down the Left With this Incredibly straight Line and then These
Striations in The Crowd Clouds to the Left and the Clouds Are incredible to Look at Clouds in a hurricane
Are, also incredible This is a picture of an eye of a hurricane that my crewmate Kimiya yui took and
[in]
Looking at [a] hurricane you understand the Massive
Power that Is this Wrapped Up in This Storm System and yet as you fly over it it just Looks
Perfectly Still [and] Peaceful and Yet you Can See you know that it's Progressing to Populated Areas and that Is
That That's very Scary
The Ground Particularly Africa is Absolutely Amazing so [just] the Differences in Color and
Geography [I]
Thought This Looked Like an Escher
[Assure] Drawing These dunes Are incredible
and then I
Sent A note down to the Person Who's doing social Media for Us on this Particular Picture and so as kind of a [shout-out] to
To to do and [i] said i builded the tweet just Said Arrakis Questioner Mark
And so the Guy that, was Helping me out. He spent A good hour and a half Looking for Arrakis I'm on Google Earth
He's [sweet] up he's like I can't find Arrakis [Chell] and
[It's] like I am so, sorry
On so Many levels
But These Crab, like These Crab, like Dunes and then This Valley in Africa Just Looks Like A watercolor Painting
Absolutely Stunning [and]
So then, We go from dry to wet
It's incredibly Lush
Ground and
Then Rivers I thought this river looked like Chocolate Milk I think I was Having Food cravings at this Point
you Can See the the great Barrier Reef Bordering Australia and One of the Really cool things
Flying Over The Upper Atmosphere
We can look Down and We Can See Contrails Made from Planes Just Criss Crossing
[The] Atmosphere Which is Really Amazing and if you find the Tip of One of Those Contrails
What I would do Is just Take a picture of the Tip of it and then I would blow it Up and
You Could Actually so I actually Took a picture of an Aircraft in Flight
From The Space Station Which is Amazing
in
in Addition to Aircraft We took Pictures of Spacecraft in Flight
Which Is
Again Blew my mind
We as we Pass over the Top [of] Florida the Cygnus Cargo Vehicle was Launching to Catch up with Us and deliver Cargo to Us?
You know it was twilight which Makes it very difficult to see Through the upper Haze of the atmosphere but
We were Just Looking out the Window Just to See if We Could See Anything and Sure Enough as?
We passed Over We Could See This bright dot Climbing Through the atmosphere Behind Us and Chasing Us [and] then
We could See This Amazing like Cobra Hood of as the the Contrails of the Rockets?
Spread out Through the Atmosphere [and] so this is a picture of that that Cygnus Cargo vehicle Chasing the international Space Station Which is Just
Mind-Blowing [the]
[Only] Thing That gave me Goosebumps during my Mission
Was the Aurora This?
Haze of neon Green With Highlights of Purple and Red
Rapidly Undulating, Over The the Face of the Earth
Was Absolutely Stunning [I] was also getting Elevated Radiation Doses during this Time so that's Where the goosebumps May have come from?
And then Finally on the view of the milky way is is Stunning and so in This Particular Picture?
We happen to Capture A lightning strike on the ground That's Reflected on our solar Array Which Is?
Great and then it was Time to come Home in my last and [Favourite] Picture of the Earth and it's in its Star
[There's] One of my Favorite Pictures of all Time
so
Those Are Some insights from from the Head Down [to] the feet to the gut and from the Heart
Is a amazing Experience Thank you [for] Sharing in it thank you for Inspiring
Just Legions of Folks to Look Towards the Stars and to chase Their Dreams
Thank you so much
And in The Spirit of Full Going Full circle [I] leave you with an Acronym
Not Many Star Wars People in The Audience [Alright], okay [alright] [I]
Think that's it [for] tonight right
okay
Thank you so much your patience let's get on with the show so
The Awards first Former President Michael Capobianco will present the Kevin O'donnell jr.. Service to sit [for] Back
[Down] to earth Unfortunately
But the Kevin O'donnell Services have full [ward]?
[It] was created to Honor Those Volunteers who go beyond and Beyond the Call of Duty for?
Sifl as you Probably all know by now sifl is Primarily A volunteer Organization and
Without Volunteers
Many of our Services Perhaps all of our Services and Perhaps the Organization Itself Would Cease to exist
So i'm going to
put on my glasses
Let's See
[I'm] going to Say that I'm extremely Pleased
To present This year's Kevin O'donnell jr.. Services if Award to Jim Fisk Is and
I will just Briefly Say Jim Has Been Volunteering for Syphilis since the mid 90s
That is as, We have to Keep Reminding Ourselves A very Long Time
He's Chaired Various
Committees Including The Orphan Copyrights Committee
He's Currently Chairing the
Contracts Committee and
He's Co-Chairing the legal Affairs Committee I
In my i've Been working with him for Many Years Now
he is
The Mainstay upon Which Many of These Committees Exist
He is responsible for revising These extremely Complicated either legal or
Contractual
Drafts of Model Contracts That We Produce and I Certainly Encourage all of you to go check Them out on the
[Sifl] Website Our Model Contracts Are are Great in My Opinion
[We] also Submit Things to the Copyright Office and the House Judiciary Committee the?
Librarian of Congress We've Been Working to do These things in Additional?
Also amicus Curiae I not Amicus Kirari
Well I have two?
Briefs
[-]
-
To Comment on Various Cases
in the legal
Sphere
Mainly Related To Copyright but, also other Things
Let's See I
Can't Think of Anybody Who's more deserving of This award
[As] i say he's been A, mainstay two of two of stuff was Goals or Mission?
Statements are To defend and Advocate for Authors and
Jim is the Mainstay of That effort for for Many Years and and I
Really will Enjoy Giving the award to him so Jim Could you come for
And Fulfill in [A] suitcase
It will it will, we were Talking about Whether this Would fit in a suitcase?
[To] get it on the Airplane and it will
Very Nice I'Ll put it up here
I have to have your priorities you have to be able to get at Home
[um]
Couple of very Brief Notes Are to Thank the board and The board Members and very Members I've Served with, over the Years
This is A
Considerable Privilege A
Couple of Thoughts Just Pontificating for A second the Relationship between writers and The People and Businesses
Who Publish our Work Is at its Base
Adversarial
Especially when it Comes to Contracts and Money
Why Does need decent Pay for Their Work
They Need Fair Contracts and That Means not Allowing, over Broad Grabs of rights
It means
Reasonable Warranty and Indemnity Clauses
Payment Honor before Publication
Fair Accounting Whether it be from a publisher or from Amazon
for Anthologies and Books it means Payment of Royalties if The Book Succeeds it
Is [Sufferers] Primary Job to fight for writers and
I urge you to volunteer and [to] stand in Solidarity With your fellow writers and
that's it Thank you very much
Okay, next [Brianna] and Frank Woo will present the Ray Bradbury for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Amazing Thank You Thank you that is not Nearly. A big enough chair for the Nebula wars come on
That's A that's Amazing Frank huh
Before We start I had to Say Dr.?
Lindgren I have a promise for you and that is you know after
I'm serving [a], congresswoman in 2018 After the Elections
America Is Going to renew our
Funding for Nasa [and] We are Gonna Make sure you have everything you need over There that's very important to me
Amazing
So you know this is such an
Honor This [Is] an Amazing Time to be a science Fiction and Fantasy Fan it's Amazing Every Single Week There's something
Amazing That's Coming on TV you can't even Watch it all and you know I was talking Frank before This I was?
Thinking Like what if They Had this Category Back in
1995 for The Nebula Awards and You're Having to give an award that year the Number One Sci-Fi Film that year
Was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?
That was the year Waterworld came out?
It Is it's just it's an Embarrassment of riches he Says
All right so the
2017 [Ray] Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation the Nominees Are
I have no eyesight Left
Arrival Directed by, Denis Villeneuve Screenplay by Eric hi sir
I
Love This one Dr.. Strange Directed by Scott Derrickson
Screenplay by Scott Derrickson and Robert Cargill yeah
Wait Which one am I on Kubo in the two strings Directed by travis knight Screenplay by mark Haines and Chris Butler
All Right I like This one Too
Rogue One A Star Wars story
Directed By Gareth EdWards
Written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy right, [oh]
This One's awesome Too the Bicameral mine The Episode of the [West-World] Directed By Jonathan Nolan Written by Lisa
Joy and Jonathan Nolan
Yeah, oh, yeah?
And oh my gosh this, One's Great too
Zootopia
Directed By Byron, Howard Rich Moore and Jarrod Bush
Screenplay by Jarrod Bush and Phil Johnson
Wow
All Right Frank you're Into this yeah play what you out There [Envelope] [in] your Purse, oh yeah that's right, okay?
Okay, wait [Ami] got Let me go, oh my God
What's jumble Opuses I think it's this one No?
No it's [A] set Laughs that's Everyone okay and the Winner is lala Land
That
That doesn't Sound right does it no I don't think that's right okay hold, on oh, sorry, sorry about that There you go
Oh, wow
The Real Envelope is blue
and
The Winner for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation is A
Rival
It's Amazing
We have an Acceptance [Speech]?
So arrival isn't here Tonight [too]
To Accept this, also wore Which I think means, We get it um?
But I, did Have a speech A letter they Wanted me to Read to you uh
Thank you to Everyone for Honoring me [With] the award Named after the man [who] got me Name
Hooked on science Fiction as A child this means so much to me and if I were not on
Location Making Another Film I'D be here Now With you enough Cannot be Said About the people who
Made This Film A Reality
Starting With The Brilliant and evocative Writing of Ted Chang
Denis Villeneuve Shaped The script in Something Truly Cinematic While Amy Adams Filled A role and created a new
Category of Acting Nonlinearly I
Leave you with A bit of Trivia the Words of general Shang's wife on her Deathbed were a source of much Anguish for me as
Denis Had Made it clear he believed that they, were the most important in the whole Film Quote This?
Is what Saves The World Erik end Quote he?
Had Said to me so after Weeks of Sending him Options he Finally fell in love with the line Which was then?
Translated To Mandarin for Amy to Speak, Into the Phone
Imagine My Frustration When denis Decided not to use Subtitles in the Film
But Just sell all of you at. Home, [no] her words were in War There are no Winners-only
Widows
Thank you very much arrival
all
Right the next the kate will hem Solstice award is Presented to Individuals who have made a significant Impact on the science Fiction and Fantasy
Fields This Year Sif will be Honoring Two Individuals
Bill Fawcett will present the first [Kate] will hem Solstice award
Now
It's Really Satisfying to be giving the kate Welcome Sauceless award
I've Worked in Law Groups I've Worked With
Major Corporations They don't Have Awards for Contributing to everybody in Being A good Person
We do
Have some Pretty Nice Things About all of Us here Compared to them of our nastiest Fandom Sponsors Love fests and
It's Really Been a privilege for me for Many Years to do it and it's a great Privilege for me to be able to present
This to some One of Two People Both, of Them are Wonderful People and Really deserve Such an, Honor
Kate While Home Awards Been Given out to many People since it was inaugurated in 2008 With Kate Oklahoma Self of Course?
Martin Greenberg and He'll Just Produce
Since then it's fun to don Walheim Tom doherty greg Fields Figures in the Field
Artists like
Excuse me Mike Whalen and
Even Scientists like Carl sagan in
Today it's A very Great Privilege
Honor To Someone who has got A lot of years yet to come doing it but has Been A
Tremendous positive Force in Our Field in A positive Force for an awful Lot of writers that She's Affected
Now Officially she is
Antonio Katherine Flora [Weisskopf] Tony Can You Come up please
It would be A
Process of Ours To go, over everything, tony's Done for everybody in Various things, oh
By the way i only [thought] it, was her to have you up here so that not only Can
They See, you react to this but You're in Punching range
Perhaps Just Giving you an idea of her life and some of the things that have gone on in it and what She's Been [Doing]
in Various Places will
Help Explain [wife] We all Feel it's Privilege to, Honor her With an award for all she has done
Born in Massachusetts She moved to Brooklyn the age of Three
And was There until [twelve] and I have it on good Authority that you, were more of a mystery Reader in Those Days
In Rust Mystery Romances of Course
Her Father if You don't know it by the way moved her to huntsville Where he has the Chief scientists on the Chandra X-Ray
Satellite and has Been for Many Years for the whole Project, [so] she sort of Grew up Among Us
She Prepared from the Beginning of her life at [Overland] [college] to Work With writers She took Anthropology
[Toni] for All her Successes only Successfully Had, One Job Interview
She went straight to vane Books from Oberlin
A few Years ago
Beyond
Beyond her other Efforts and Things that I we are all Grateful for she Probably created the anthology with the title I
Really Really am Jealous That Harlan Didn't Make the only one
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
her irreverence has Been Both a parent and A
Great Help to Many of us because She's Willing to Look in New Doors and then Laugh at it
While it Made tony was Always Thinking About how things went and
How the Books no Matter what was going on?
Probably [the] Best Example of this is a memo that, We all got from her Tony Had an Abdominal
Operation
Now [went] on Kidney Stones I complained to Everyone about the Pain
She was in Pain that isn't what Happened
Tony Sent Us all a memo that Said from [now] on in Any Vain Book
No, One's getting Shot in The Stomach and doing Anything but lie There writing
Evans True if you look at the Books ever Since
Tony was One of the Early Advocates and Inspirations in the E-Book Process back in The 90s before They?
Were Making us all a lot of Money [She's] one of the Reasons that ebooks Became so Popular
She and Jim We're Putting Together things like Let's Give [some] away and See if People start to like them Projects When most of Us?
Were Deathly Afraid of the whole concept
If Pain is Editor [&] [Publisher] one of the
Not very Dirty, Little Secrets Tony is a nice Person She's A soft I can't tell you?
Except When Negotiating a contract [I] can't tell you?
How Many People She has Helped how, Many Contracts Have been Rushed out on April 14th
How Many medical Bills Have Been Covered Because two more Books Worth of Contract Came in
How She's Been Patient how She's Helped People [with] Problems They put A few writers on Salary to get them over Bad Spots
She's A and
Then of Course There's the ounce of Blood Carpet that's Later
Yeah, on her Finished Side tony Because being of Course an Editor and A publisher is Never something to Keep you busy
[Tony] Is put Together From the Beginning of fanzine With by the way, one of my Favorite
Novellas I guess it Would have Been Called titles Young, [vias] [Allows]
From That Great Story, Plus Acts
Yeah [and] Wonderful Things Like that
Tony Has Worked With Fandom as much as. She's Worked in our Profession and on other Levels [all] of her Life
Back in 93 and 94 You put Together The definitive Book on all the southern Fandom at
Well I won't say it was Hard but They Have two awards that they gave her that Year One was the Rebel award for?
Contributions and The other was the Rubble Award for Having driven Them all Crazy?
Later on Tony was also because of her Many other Contributions in 2002 or?
Given The Phoenix Award as, well during that she is the only [Person] to get all Three. Big Southern Awards as A fan
Incidentally a tucker in 2007 The Liberty Con Hank Reinhart Named for someone in
2009 and The Fleur de Fan in 2015 For her General Contribution so a lot of Us have Noticed This
and if This wasn't Enough Professional Activities and Contributions to Make She's
Also on the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop Committee and Helps Organize it
Toni Contributes A lot on a personal note She is very Importantly the doting Mother of Katy
Do not do not play Money in Hearts Or scrabble With her
And Finally if Not the most important one [of] the most endearing she is a lifelong cubs Fan
And it it meant a lot to us both so for so much and so often
and for more Contributions Than Their and for Putting up with this Speech
Congratulations on you more Than
Well
We're Always ambivalent about Awards as an Editor
Because There are so Many other People who Deserve
Credit for what it is that you, do
So first of all I'd like to thank you all the members of The science Fiction and Fantasy writers of America
[Cat] and The [board] of [Directors]
[for] Giving me This award and [for] letting They'll Introduce me I
will Keep This Short I promise
[and] that most
Especially for Placing Me in Such good Company Especially this Year
I knew Peggy [Rae] Padlet and I really wished that she, were here Tonight so that We could Celebrate Together
And Talking About Coming to bane it was 30 Years Ago almost to the day that I came to new York straight out of College
To Work for bein Books I
Wanted Nothing More Than to Follow in the Footsteps of John W campbell and Frederik Pohl?
And to be Paid to Read to Read science [Fiction] and so far so [good]
it's been My, Honor to Work with the finest writers the most Talented artists the [Best] Editors in The Business in All that Time and
For E-Books The Credit Goes Entirely to Jim Vane and all [Bailey]. I was Just There Watching them going, oh yeah?
well Done
So i work with the finest Team There Is and I'm Really Really Proud of them
I'd like to thank in Particular the Editors [of] Pain that I've Worked With Past and present Including Jim Bain
Josefa Sherman That's Mitchell and The current Team
Marla and Span Jim Mins tony Daniel [Daniel] Turner Joy Freeman David [F] share ED and Christopher [Rocky]
[Oh] and I also like to thank our
Core of incredible Freelancers [I] will only Call out Three by name but they will stand out for the Millions who
Have Worked with Us modine Moon Bill Ledbetter and Kelly Lockhart
It has been A great Ride and I hope I get Another 30 Years
Now Kate Baker and Stephen, h. Silver will present the second Kate will Home Wilhelm Salsa ward
When I attended The 2008 New York Reception in my first Year as Savoy event Coordinator
We were Setting up the Registration table and?
Peggy Race at the Enza was There and She looked over at me she looked at what [I'd] done and
Very Gently suggested That
Well This Would Work Better over There and That Would Really be [A] Lot Better if it was Over Here and why?
Don't you go Grab a drink
Well I put everything the way it should be?
It was the Beginning of A long and Wonderful Friendship and Partnership?
that saw The Two of us [Co-Chair]
Multiple Nebula Weekends and Work Together on several New York Receptions
Peggy Sramek Knight was Born Into science Fiction her Father Jack mcknight Manufactured the first Hugo Awards during Full Con -
Peggy Ray Pavlat Made Many Contributions Creating The World Con Concours
Professionalizing World Con Press Offices and Eventually Chairing my first [World] Con Baltimore in Baltimore in 1998
Through it all she had the Ability to Look at an Individual
Quickly Figure out What Their Strengths and Were
and
Welcome Them Into the sphere of Minions to Help her Achieve her Lofty Visions
Now I began working There Sifl A few Years after Stephen in 2011 and
From my arrival Peggy [rey], Made me Feel Welcome
Part of The Family and
That's before I hadn't even Done Anything for the Organization
She gave me Advice as I settled Into my role and
Offered to Help on A wide Variety of Topics
Not Only Relating to the Nebula Awards but in Every way so [it] could be made a better Organization
She was Always?
Encouraging Everyone She met to be Their Best and it's a skill I try to emulate with my own Teams now
And i miss her so much for that
When Peggy [rey], wasn't working on the Nebula Awards or some of her other Conventions Many other Conventions?
She Proof-Read the Sepa Bulletin Making Sure sifl was able to Produce a [professional] Magazine She was Always There?
Ready to Help Whenever Asked and by Helping
Improved Whatever Project She Worked on
Sif was Proud to present the [Kate] Low hum solstice Award - Peggy Race at the enzo
But the real tribute sifl Offers her Is this weekend
Which exists in its Current Form Almost Entirely Based on Peggy Race happy dances Vision
John Would you please Come up
[as] Promised I will Keep This Short but I would like to Say that I'm Grateful to bill
For his Tribute to tony
For her Efforts in Fandom um
We think of Tony is Producing Books that, We all love to Read?
But Both Tony and Peggy Ray but in Lots of ours and Lots of love in
Helping People Come Together and
Join With Others in Our Genera of science Fiction and Fantasy
It was her Gift to the Community?
For which She is Honored Tonight Thank you all very much
One More Thing
in
2012
Thanks to Steve
and Kate and Others
Aguirre was A fan guest of Honor at the?
Chekhov [7] Convention and She Told Me Afterwards that She felt loved
I'm sure she Would say the same thing Tonight [I've] Been very Grateful for the love You've given Thank you all
okay next
Fran While The Winner of The 2015 Andre Norton award for young Adult science Fiction and Fantasy will present this year's award
I'll Keep This Short
The Andre Norton [Org] for Young Adult science Fiction and Fantasy
Nominees Are The girl, who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
The Star Touched [Queen] by rashmi [Choksi]
The Lie Tree by Frances Harding
Arabella of Mars By David Levine
Railhead By Philip Reeve
Rocks Fall Everyone dies by lindsey rye bar
The Evil Wizard Small Bone by Delia Sherman
I've Never Gotten to open an Envelope before
[They] Andre Norton award for Young Adult science [Fiction/fantasy] Goes to [Arabella] of Mars
Thank you Thank you very much
I'd like to thank Everyone who Read Nominated and voted for Arabella for this award whose Name Honors one of our Finest
And i'd like to acknowledge all the other very Worthy, nominees Elected Please give A hand to the other Nominees
Especially Rocks Fall Everyone dies Because Because that Title
[Lucked] Offer Special Thanks to Moshe feder who acquired the Book
Christopher Morgan Who Edited it Patrick [Nielson] Hayden who Provided Invaluable support Paul Lucas my agent A copy Editor
Extraordinaire Diana Hoke Thank you very much Diana
Mary Robinette kowal my invaluable Guide to all things Regency and Navigating the dangerous Shoals of Publication
- Janice Silverstein my greatest AdVisor and Cheerleader and Most of all my late wife Kate ewell who never Stopped Believing in me
Pittsburgh, was Kate's Hometown and She Would Have been so very Proud and Happy to Share this moment I wish she Could be Here Now?
I
Still Love you Snookie
Thank you
Now to present This year's damon knight memorial Grand Master award kat Rambo president of Sifl
Many of Us came to science and Fiction and Fantasy Because of That Book
Which Varied in Title but When We Read it it Opened new Doors
It Showed us new Worlds and it Became a Lifelong Passion
While all writers Are
Admirable
Those who Create Those Gateways are the ones who bring in
Our new Readers our New Fans and the People who, become our new writers
One of the Joys and Terrors of [the] Cipa Presidency Is
Trying to pick the next if A Grand Master and find someone who represents the genre
Who has Shaped it
Who has Helped create it and who, we Feel represents the Field
This [Year] I picked Someone who writes Those Books
Who brings new Fans who brings new Readers who Opens New Worlds A?
Woman who has written close To 300 Books?
Over
Decades of A Wonderful Career and
Too Many Awards to the Elite Me and so I'm going to bring her up to speak for Herself our
Next hit for Grand Master Please Join Me in Greeting Jane yolen
No This is extraordinary Because I speak all the Time and I am Shaking Up here so um
Gonna Be very Short I
Hope they send that to me. Cuz. I can't Possibly get That [pack] in That Suitcase
[First] I want to thank you [Cat] and all the past Presidents of Whether they cast a yay or a nay Vote for me
There Are Reasons The [Grandmaster] [Award] exists in The [present] President Nominates the
Person that he Or she wants the Others AdVised and Either consent or dissent and
Everyone Hopes The Old Writer doesn't die before the award is given
Honestly Though it was an Absolute and complete Surprise to me
Normally Think of This as A past President I have A vote Whenever this award Comes up
But There Is not an Award every Year
So if I had Thought [about] it at all I guess I assumed this
Was a no one Being Named this year Because I Didn't find out who was running
Now you may Think that was very
Ingenuity Or Stupid but it never occurred to me and
Cat sent Me an Email that she wanted to talk to me About a civil Matter
And i thought she was Sounding out several of the Past Presidents on something We that's how, We did It and?
I thought Maybe This was well Puppyish
Or Maybe some Money Problems or A new Category for Membership you know
We get These calls Every Once in A while so we made a Phone
Date That Suited us Both it took A bit of Back and Forth before
We got one and then she Called and i said in a jolly Manner?
Hi how Can I help [kat] and She said um
What Would you say if I told you?
that We want to Name you [Grandmaster] and
I laughed and Said
Right Really um
What Can I really Help you with and She Said?
no Really [and]
I said, well i'd Probably tell you you couldn't get Enough Votes
and
She said we Already did?
At which Point I was Possibly for The first Time in my entire life at. A, loss for Words [I]?
Mean
That Puts Me on the Same List Dispersal and Isaac and Clark and so I reached Into the Joke Bag Because that's all I had
I said do I get a chalice of Gold
No
um Assorted Buckler with my name engraved no A
Crown With Sparkling Jewels no but You get A free Trip to Pittsburgh
and She Said a standing Ovation
So thank you you you, meet you Didn't Make her liar out of her
No okay, She really, Didn't Say That about this day, on the Location part but Here I am in Pittsburgh and I'm Honestly Honestly Gobsmacked
and A bit Teary and
I'm about to go all Sally Field on you in A moment and
If A woman had to lose the Election
At least Another woman has become a grand [Master] of separate
You Understand, we're Not Breaking Any Glass Ceilings
This Glass Ceiling has Been Broken before but I'm glad to pick up some of the Shards
Now i hope you, don't think this Means I am done
Finished My Writing over next Year This is going to Surprise you because of what you [said] Just a minute Ago next Year my
360
Fifth Book will Be and the
360 Sixth as, well Just in Case it's a leap Year and
This Means you will be able to read a jane yolen Book a day for an entire Year
But that's only if you Can find all the out of Print Books
Um so no rest for me Or as it Turns out no rest for you either
Though Possibly I Can Rest A bit now on my laurels except
Except I am on a list
With Ursula and Isaac and Arthur and Chip and Jean and [Joe] and Harry and Michael and Damon and Jim and Harlan and Annie and
Silver [Bobbin] Ben [Walk] and Philip and Ray and Alfie and [Blessed] Andre and Brian and Po [and] Cj
and how on lester and Fritz and [Clifford's] Break and
Connie and Larry and Jack and Mr.. Heinlein and I've Probably Forgotten someone or said other People Twice
but what
What Could Be Better Than that I?
Think you [like] me I
Honestly She likes me I
Was I was I was going to Say?
Owen Cat A bit of Dark Chocolate Could Enormous but to be two big things of it showed Up in my room this Morning
So um so instead Instead of Saying that I want to Read you A verse that I wrote this Morning
[um]
Let's See, i've Never done This on my Cell Phone [so] let's Hope it Works
It's called Grandmaster Advice
I've Been a grandma for 22 Years Change Diapers gave Cuddles and [Opet] often White Tears
Grandmaster Force if Wa a moment or two?
[Sans] Crown and Sans Sword and Sans Duties To do no writers wear Diapers
[Mathi] Astronauts I Didn't Think that
Note no writers Wear Diapers need Cuddles Though Fears of Rejection Can bring on A full Flood of Fresh Tears so
Maybe my Duty is Easy to see you need some tear Wiping
Then Come Here to me I love you all thank you so much
Okay and Now
We would like to Take A few Moments To Remember Members of our Community who are no longer with [us] please hold [your]
Responses until The end
you
you
So now I'd [like] to invite kat Rambo back Up to the Stage
We do have one More little Surprise for Jane and I would like to bring Walter
Day Up to the Stage and present it to her Jane Can, We bring you up one More Time I
Think Many of You Have Seen [Walter's] Amazing science Fiction Trading Cards and
so one of the things that, we did You see er was Make sure [that], We Had a trading Card for our Sifu Grandmaster and
so here to present it Is
So i actually have to Marvel that i'm Here on the Stage Tonight Because
The Person Sitting beside Me and Jonathan [Brazi] he Suddenly Volunteered that his first science Fiction Story he Ever Rode
Was star Man's son by Andrew Norton and I said what what I read to first When I ever Read and
Somehow Deep in My dna science Fiction's There Because my uncle Bradford Marshal
Day Opened up what might be History's First science Fiction book Store in Queens New York in 1959
So that Goes Pretty far back are They
But Anyway I do Trading Cards and When I tell [People] I do Trading Cards they get Confused at first let's Say
Well Or you, mean Baseball Cards so we're Going to put you on a baseball Card tonight
And it's true you [know] Back in The 1860S and 70s
Business People Would Make Trade Cards
They'd Mentioned Their Trade on One Side on the Back They'd have A flower they'd have a fish something like that then eventually
Baseball Became so Popular Started Putting Baseball People on the back and it Grew, Into What eventually Became baseball Cards Today
So i would like to believe
Since Baseball Cards
Were kind of Kind of an American Phenomenon I would like to believe that as I present this to you tonight
That Up here on the stage [with] Us, it's the Spirit of babe Ruth
in Lou gehrig and
Joe Dimaggio [and]
Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams and Roger Hornsby and Dozens of Others as they all join us as, we Walk him
Into The Long Long American Tradition of Being A prominent Figure Who's Honored for Their Career on A baseball Card
You won't be Surprised but I wrote a book About Honus Wagner
[and]
He was the one The One Baseball Star at the Time who refused to have his his
Picture and he he Told Them to Take it Take it off Because on the back of them they were Selling
Or they
Were Sold in Sold in Cigarette Packs and he Didn't want Children to be Smoking
So, he he refused so I wrote that Story but if You Can find a Honus Wagner
Baseball Card That got, away, it's Worth something like Two Million Dollars
So this one won't be that I'm sorry
We do Have another card to give away
This is to Another one of the Figures of our Community this is going to come as A complete Surprise to them which I'm
Happy About
[Steven] Silver Could you Please Come Up here
See, it's not often I get to actually Surprise Steven so i'm very Pleased by this so this is well-Deserved
So so kat and I worked at. Keeping This A secret but I do have my Bag over There
A big Thick wad of Steve and Silver Trading Cards and We Can I'll hand We'll start Handing Them out and
One Last Thing I'll Say
Is that the Famous Company Beckett that used to great you know Grades Mickey Mantle Cards and Puts Them in Those Plastic
Cases They Recognize These Trading Cards now so
We have to get Steven in One of Those Beckett Things?
Because Those Four Different Universities
That Have Big archives That Preserve science Fiction Memorabilia They Officially Have Announced that They want to start Collections of The science Fiction Trading Cards
Graded By beckett's so it's A very Prestigious development Thank you very much Thank you, okay thank you
okay, tonight's
Robotic Centerpieces Have Been Graciously Loaned to sifl abide on Jones and Jones Robo Works
If you'd like to Adopt one of These cybermen Cybernetic Marvels don will be selling them Following This evenings Presentations They are beautiful
Okay, the nebula, award for Short Story will be Presented by Incoming sifl Director Andy Duncan
So am I correct in that They
Decided to Let me to present the first Nebula award of the Evening I think so well
[Any] Short Fiction writers in The House Short Fiction writers
your Night Testify okay very good I
I was Advised to Keep it Short
and well i can Cross off the La-La-Land Joke
[Thanks] Whoo
[They], don't want me to gush About twin peaks on Sunday Night that's not, why, we're Here
Long Anecdote About Things Scott Edelman has fed me, no
Long Analysis of The speculative Fiction Elements of Smokey and The Bandit no that's not well
Taught The Leo Vladimir Ski Later
Long Anecdote About Connie Willis's Long anecdote, no
Long Anecdote About Foot Calluses
Thanks Lindgren
No I think it's safest Just to get to the awards [uh]
Particularly Given my Accent our Former President John Scalzi used to demand that I travel with a translator
[Which] did and Sydney is with me Tonight I'm very glad to [Say] [and] Steve Silver was Going all Around?
Not Realizing he [was] About to be immortalized on a baseball card he, was going all Around all the Presenters
Coaching us Through Pronunciations
Of Everybody and Then he Came Up [to] me and went Never mind
So so we're on our Own?
But this but this is a peer award
These seven Stories Are Stories that, We all Decided are the
Exemplary of what, We want to do These are Stories, we wish We had written?
These are Stories, We will Point to for Years to come when?
We say this is [the] sort of Thing We do When, we are at [our] Best [and]?
So everybody on this [List] that I'm About to Read Should be Extremely Proud of that right
So the Nominees for the [Nebula] [award] for Short Story This Year
from Uncanny Magazine our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brook by lander
From The Starlit Wood Seasons of Glass and iron by a male Elma Car
From Clockwork Phoenix Five Sabbath Wine by Barbara Krassnoff
From [Clark's] World Things With Beards by sam Jay Miller
From Fireside Magazine This Is not a wardrobe door by a merc rested
From [tor.com] A fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wild Flowers by Elisa [wang]
and
From Light Speed Welcome to the medical Clinic at the Interplanetary
Relay Station our Sits the last Patient death Zero By Caroline am Yocum
and the award Goes to
Seasons of Glass and I are on my amalia my car
This is Really Heavy, [oh]?
God I notes and This Thing Is closed so i can't open it um
This is Really [uh] this is Really Something and I'm very Uncollected and hi Thank you [so] much um I
Really Should Have Prepared for This Better um but you Can't Cuz how Can you write like, We have this whole?
Alternate Universe Speech Thing Which is supposed to Help you Prepare for things but you have to imagine Yourself in The Alternate Universe Where
You win the award in The first Place and it's difficult so um
and
Lots of Things About This Have Been difficult like getting here, was Hard and being Here
Was a little Hard and this Just Makes it all worth it in weird Ways and Thank you um I have to thank my
Amazing Amazing Editors Nava Wilson Dominique Fatties Gang um
For Basically Holding the door to Their Anthology open As long as Possible as I blew Past deadline After deadline After deadline
um
And - I have to thank my wonderful [spin] who is here with Me and he
Was so Amazingly supportive Through Absolutely everything and even Though he, wants me to be Writing Novels and I'm not doing [that]
Was yet As fast As [he's] [like] I have to thank
Max Gladstone For for Helping, Me Crack The Story open in Ways that it Really needed um
And i thank - Uncanny Magazine for Reprinting It and letting it Reach A wider Audience and
Most of all I have to thank my tiny Amazing, less Tiny now than she was then nice [Lara]
West
for Asking me to Tell her a Fairy tale and
For Making Me Realize that I wanted her to have Better Fairy tales than the ones That I knew and Side
Make Something Up for her and Thank you all so much for
Reading It and Nominating it and Voting for it and and
Being moved by it um
Thank You Thank you so much Thank you to sif [wa] oh my god um
Thank you so much to the board
When i say getting here was difficult I came across a border to get here and it was hard and it was Upsetting and Bad
And I was detained and Things were Bad and um but
I wouldn't have even Tried had I not Been
Able To Talk to Members of the board beforehand to ask them about
What Can I do if I'm not allowed to cross what Can I do in Terms of like?
Stupid Niggly Logistical Things if I'm not
Allowed Across The Border To Accept
Potentially an Award and
They Were
Enormous ly
Incredibly Helpful and supportive With This and I cannot Thank you enough for that so thank you [so] much for Enabling me [to] be Here
And for for Giving me This beautiful Thing I've Never Had One Before so thank you
Okay, the Nebula, award for Novelette will be Presented by Jeffy Kennedy
When I first got, [to] be A seller to my great astonishment
and Joy
One of my first assignments for
Writing for The Bulletin, was for the Nebula?
Edition and I got to write interviews for Best Novel it A
Category I had not Known existed [I]
Was a novelist I knew About novellas I knew About Short Stories I, did not know that There was A novel at and
So i asked People why, Would you write a novel at
And the answers were Fascinating to me Because it was as you Would [Imagine] a Combination of?
Well it wasn't?
Quite Enough Story For A novella
But too much for [a] Short Story and
So it Ends Up being This Fascinating Form
That's a little bit Interstitial and
As an Interstitial Person Myself I greatly Appreciate that
So i'm very excited tonight to be [able] to present to you the nominees for Best Novel that
We have from the Magazine of Fantasy and science [Fiction]?
The Long Fall Up by William Ledbetter
Published in Light Speed
We have Sooner Or Later everything falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker?
Published in Beneath Ceaseless Skye's Blood [Grains] Speak Through Memories by Jason Sanford
also in Beneath Ceaseless Skies the [Orogeny] by, Bonnie Joe Steffel being
in [tour] Calm the Jewel and her Lapidary by [fran] wild
And in Uncanny you'll Surely Drown if You stay by Elissa Wall
and
and I have to admit this is my first Time for Ripping Open Open an Envelope - This is like the best Part right and
[The] Winner is the Long Fall up by william Ledbetter
And this Is for you it's A lot better than the Pictures of them
um
Wow I guess it's good that I wrote something Down
[Yeah] I've Been Reading and Loving science Fiction since I was a kid
Over Long Long Years
And I've Watched with Wonder and Appreciation as the story Screw ever Deeper and more Complex
Explorations of Human Condition During that Whole Time [Nebula] Winners Have Been Leading the charge
So i'm Amazed and Humbled
To Join this List with the Hard science Fiction store Space Story that is Hopefully entertaining and
Tries to Explore some of Those difficult Issues
While Writing is Inherently a solitary Endeavor most of Us, don't accomplish much Without help
So I have some People [Thinning] first of all I want to thank everybody who Read and liked and voted for the story
The Readers Are Always the most important Factor and Sif [With'] Especially you know for
For Doing all this and for letting me be a member
but
Yeah I need to I need to especially Thank
Charlie Finley in Gordon van Gelder at Fantasy and science Fiction for Believing in The Story Without whom
It Never Would have reached so many People and
I have an awesome Support Network of trusted friends Who've Always helped me With [my] Stories to higher levels
So Huge Thanks [to] Everyone who spent Their Time Reading and Giving me [Feedback] on this Especially Everyone in my future classics Writing Group
And the special Thanks to the Steadfast Michelle Munster Who's Read [the] story like three or four Times before it
Ever Went out To a publisher and
My Amazing wife Niece who Without her Support I could Never Have become the writer that [I've] Grown to be
Thank you
Okay, the Nebula award for novella will be Presented by Kevin Mclaughlin
Hi um I'm new to [Sephora] so thank you very much for this This is Really special for me in
No Small Part Because the novella is Probably my favorite format Perfection period I've Watched it go from
Something That Almost died away to something that's Really, Experiencing a massive Resurgence and I love the Form so this Is
Incredibly Exciting [for] me the
Finalists for The Nebula for Best novella
We have Runtime is [B] Divya?
The dream Quest of [Belet] Buh-bye Kiss Johnson
The Ballad of Black Tom by victor laval
Every Part a Doorway by Seanan Mcguire the
[Liar] by John P Murphy
and A taste of Honey by Kaya Shantae Wilson
[Alright] first Time Opening an Envelope for me [to]. [we're] Doing a, whole [Bunch] of These tonight in A row
And the Winner of the Nebula for Best novella is every Heart a, Doorway by Seanan Mcguire
um
Thank you I
Get Really Bad Test Anxiety for Awards so I mostly Spend These things Throwing Up and this is the first Time I've Actually won one
So I feel like the five Pounds I've Lost [Is] worth it, oh?
Everyone at [tour] [Comm] has Been Amazing When Lee Harris
Contacted Us and Said hey
We'd like you to write A novella and
You don't have much Time to do it in so I'm not going to tell you what I want Just
Give Me 40 Thousand Words and We'll be good [I]
This is the Best deal ever
[and] I he's [not] here Tonight but. I wish he, Were he's Been an Amazing Editor Everyone at. The Team has Been
Absolutely Amazing Every One Every way I
Think I was going to have to do this
I threw up on my speech so I
Recognized That's Gross but it's, also True so yay the, dog ate my Homework um
This Story
[Has] meant A lot [to] a lot of People in A very Short Period of Time and I know that because They
Keep Reaching out to Me and Telling me so and
Thanking Me For Putting Them on a page Where they Could see Themselves and I think
[We] all Deserve to be on a page Where, we can see Ourselves?
No Matter, who, we are Or what, we are or what we do and I want to thank everybody here for?
[Everything] and [Promoting] for Me and for Putting up with me Occasionally Streaking by in the Hallway with A hand Clapped
Over my Mouth like I was going to go out a window
I do want to thank my girlfriend Amy who Puts up with more Purpose Than Any of you and my Piays
Kate and [Vixy] who, Literally Get me Calling Them at 2:00 a.m.
Sobbing Hysterically Because There's A typo on Page 16 [and] i'm going to die
[so] Tomorrow I'm gonna go to the Aviary and Hug some, owls thank you so much
I
Used up all the mss bags when I first got to [the] Space Station so
It's true haha
It got Better
So the final award of the evening Is the Nebula award for Best Novel and I have the Privilege of Announcing the Nominees
so Many Pockets
All right
The Nominees for The Novel from Tor and tighten All [the] Birds in the Sky by charlie Jane anders
From Saga Borderline By Michel Baker
From Orbit Us and Orbit Uk the Obelisk gate by nk Jemisin
From Solaris Us and Solaris [Uk9] [Fox] Gambit by Yoon Holly
And from tour ever Fair by [neesee] Shawl
and
The Winner of The Novel Nebula for Novel is all the Birds in the Sky a charlie Jane anders
You Guys I'm gonna need a bigger Sock Drawer um
So just start a timer okay, first of all I wanted to take a Leaf from what David levine Said and Can
We that was an Amazing Slate of Best Novel Nominees Can?
We get A round of Applause for all of them Please I was Just so Honored to be in that List um I
I'm so incredibly Grateful for this award and [for] um the the
Generous Reception This Book has Received and Just how much People Have opened Their hearts To it and I
Spent Three Years Arguing with the Voices in my head
That Said Everybody, was going to hate this book and it wasn't because it, was like too?
Risky Or Challenging or too Many Genres Or whatever it was Cuz the Voices in my head, were Saying um
You're Not you, you're not good enough to write this book you, don't have Enough skill
You May, Never Be good Enough but you Definitely are not now you Should Stay in your Lane and
I'm just so [incredibly] Grateful to everybody who has [been] so generous in Receiving it I'm Incredibly Grateful to my agent russ Galen for his
Amazingly Helpful
Editorial Feedback and To everybody at Tor who believed in The Book and Made it better Patrick Nielson Hayden Marianne Weinberg, irene gallo
Patty Garcia I could Just This People all night everybody at io9 who Supported
Me I was writing it
Most of all my Partner and ally [Nuits] who i talked to every day When I was working on it and I feel like
you Know
She's at the Center [of] Everything I do
[but] Most of all I'm Just so grateful to all of you for for
Believing in This Book and for you know Letting me get away with it and
You know it Just Means a lot to me and I really hope that
Me getting This
Means that Maybe the next Person Who's arguing With the Voices in Their Head that Say They're not good enough to write the thing They
want to write
Sorry, will Actually Tell the Voices in Their Head to shut Up and go and write Their [Freakin] Book
Congratulations to all [of] the [Nominees] and Solve Tonight's Winners Let's Please Welcome [super] President [Cat] Rambo back to the Stage
I'm so glad this [Thing] Is almost over
We have Been Working so hard on This and by?
We i say Everyone else While I just sort of stand back and go wow you guys are working real Hard
[One] of the People who Work Particularly hard is mary [Tabasco] who was Responsible for the Banquet that We Had Tonight?
But Thank you so much to all [of] the Volunteers
To the staff [To] it just the [Aim]
Amazing so 14
But Thank you to all of you for coming and it Really has Been
Special and I hope that it has Been Half as good for you as it has Been For Me and Hopefully A lot, less Anxious
[Stevens] Going to come Up and say A few Kind of Closing Things with Logistics in my
directive is to all you Just go have a good Time for the rest of the Weekend and I
Did Just it's so lovely to see you all
Thank you all for [Joining] Us at this year's Nebula
Award Ceremony Would like the award recipients To bring Their Trophies Up to the Photography Area to Pose for some Pictures
Nominees who, did not win this evening Are Welcome to Remain in the Room to give Their Alternate-Universe
Thank-you Speeches and Everyone Is Invited to listen to the Speeches Or to head Up to the Hospitality Suite
Which is Sponsored This Evening by tour and tour Comm and also a reminder that the book Depot will be Open until
Whenever You're Done Buying Books so thank you
you
