Connie Willis' Novelette Aria -- Key

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Connie Willis' introduction to her presentation of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette at April's Nebula Awards Banquet in Seattle was posted earlier. The Locus Index to SF Awards includes this list of the Nebula winning novelettes.

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Chimpanzees  —  RACHEL IN LOVE
Candles  —  A GLOW OF CANDLES, A UNICORN'S EYE
Cathedrals  —  FIRE WATCH
Christopher Columbus  —  THE QUICKENING
Charlemagne  —  THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS
Patsy Cline  —  LOUISE'S GHOST
Princess Gigunda  —  DADDY'S WORLD
Grauman's Chinese  —  AT THE RIALTO
Charles Babbage  —  GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Albert Einstein  —  SCHRODINGER'S KITTEN
Planck's Constant  —  SCHRODINGER'S KITTEN
Occam's Razor  —  TIME CONSIDERED
Schrodinger's kitten  —  SCHRODINGER'S KITTEN
cats  —  SAN DIEGO LIGHTFOOT SUE, FIRE WATCH
dodoes  —  THE UGLY CHICKENS
an elephant  —  MOTHER TO THE WORLD
an ichthyosaurus  —  THE DOORS OF HIS FACE
watch dogs  —  THE GIRL WHO FELL INTO THE SKY
guide dogs  —  GUIDE DOG
tigers  —  A GLOW OF CANDLES, A UNICORN'S EYE
tiger's eye  —  TIME CONSIDERED AS A HELIX OF PRECIOUS STONES
topaz  —  IBID
tourmaline  —  IBID
and time considered as a helix of precious stones.  —  IBID

Flowers  —  THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
grass  —  OF MIST AND GRASS AND SAND
a glass unicorn  —  A GLOW OF CANDLES, A UNICORN'S EYE
ghosts  —  LOUISE'S GHOST
gods  —  IF THE STARS ARE GODS
stars  —  IBID
sisters  —  THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
solutions  —  THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION
slow sculptures  —  SLOW SCULPTURE
shared realities  —  THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
robots  —  THE BICENTENNIAL MAN, GOAT SONG
Rachel  —  RACHEL IN LOVE
the Rialto  —  AT THE RIALTO
Mr. Ralph  —  MOTHER TO THE WORLD
Mrs. Hook  —  LOST GIRLS
Mr. Bones  —  GONNA ROLL THE BONES
Mr. Jeepers  —  DADDY'S WORLD
Mr. Dunworthy  —  FIRE WATCH
Dan Quayle  —  DANNY GOES TO MARS
the Dodgers  —  THE MARTIAN CHILD
Digit  —  DADDY'S WORLD
Dennis  —  THE MARTIAN CHILD
Wendy Darla  —  LOST GIRLS
Little Miss  —  THE BICENTENNIAL MAN
Mistherd  —  THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS
the Queen of Air and Darkness  —  THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS
the emperor's only son.  —  CALL HIM LORD

He will be travelling incognito. You will call him Lord.  —  CALL HIM LORD

the All-Controller  —  GOAT SONG
the Big Gambler  —  GONNA ROLL THE BONES
the Change  —  THE QUICKENING
the Living End  —  CALL HIM LORD
the Before Time  —  SOLITUDE
the Tower of Babylon  —  THE TOWER OF BABYLON
the vault of heaven  —  IBID
I think I saw an angel.  —  THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION

and Hell, which for most of its inhabitants, is not all that different from

Earth  —  HELL IS THE ABSENCE OF GOD
World  —  DADDY'S WORLD, THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
The world and all the places in it:
London  —  FIRE WATCH
Berlin  —  SCHRODINGER'S KITTEN
Seville  —  THE QUICKENING
Kansas  —  THE GIRL WHO FELL INTO THE SKY
Kentucky  —  CALL HIM LORD
I think I saw a real estate agent.  —  THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION
Georgia  —  GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Auckland  —  IBID
Aulit Prison  —  THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
analytical engines  —  GEORGIA ON MY MIND
adoption  —  THE MARTIAN CHILD
auntrings  —  SOLITUDE
Artifacts, Art, Life-Forms and Misc: Wo and Shade, Importers  —  SANDKINGS
Specializing in
Screwflies  —  THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION
sorcery  —  SAN DIEGO LIGHTFOOT SUE
solitude  —  SOLITUDE
cells  —  BLOOD MUSIC
cancer  —  SLOW SCULPTURE
boo-boos  —  PORTRAITS OF HIS CHILDREN
healers  —  OF MIST AND GRASS AND SAND
heteromorphs  —  GEORGIA ON MY MIND
hurricanes  —  LIFEBOAT ON A BURNING SEA
Hollywood  —  SAN DIEGO LIGHTFOOT SUE, AT THE RIALTO
player pianos  —  THE GIRL WHO FELL INTO THE SKY
paintings  —  GUIDE DOG, PORTRAITS OF HIS CHILDREN
proximal femoral focus deficiency  —  HELL IS THE ABSENCE OF GOD
pizza  —  LOST GIRLS
blackberries  —  MOTHER TO THE WORLD
eggs  —  BLOODCHILD
genetic engineering  —  BLOOD MUSIC, SLOW SCULPTURE
ghosts  —  LOUISE'S GHOST
Gan  —  BLOODCHILD
gonna roll the bones  —  GONNA ROLL THE BONES
the Boneyard  —  GONNA ROLL THE BONES
the Blitz  —  FIRE WATCH
the Budayeen  —  SCHRODINGER'S KITTEN
the Burroughs  —  DANNY GOES TO MARS
the Bicentennial Man  —  THE BICENTENNIAL MAN
Blood Child  —  BLOOD CHILD

Blood music  —  BLOOD MUSIC
orchestras  —  IBID
tuning forks  —  LOUISE'S GHOST
Tarzan  —  RACHEL IN LOVE
T-Gatoi  —  BLOOD CHILD
Tiffany  —  AT THE RIALTO
Three women  —  one is dead; one is alive; one is both and neither, and will never live and never die, being immortal in SUM.  —  GOAT SONG
Snake  —  OF MIST AND GRASS AND SAND
Singers  —  TIME CONSIDERED AS A HELIX OF PRECIOUS STONES
sandkings  —  SANDKINGS
San Diego Lightfoot Sue  —  SAN DIEGO LIGHTFOOT SUE
Sagan City, Mars  —  MARS IS NO PLACE FOR CHILDREN
You can't run for president from Mars.  —  DANNY GOES TO MARS
a Martian child  —  THE MARTIAN CHILD
Mars is no place for children.  —  MARS IS NO PLACE FOR CHILDREN
a Martian wish  —  THE MARTIAN CHILD

Mount Freedom Medical Center  —  BLOOD MUSIC
murder  —  PORTRAITS OF HIS CHILDREN, SANDKINGS, TIME CONSIDERED AS A
HELIX OF PRECIOUS STONES
missionaries  —  GEORGIA ON MY MIND
model-slash-actresses  —  AT THE RIALTO
outlings  —  THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS
healers  —  OF MIST AND GRASS AND SAND
janitors  —  RACHEL IN LOVE
deserters  —  LIFEBOAT ON A BURNING SEA
daddies  —  DADDY'S WORLD
bodyguards  —  CALL HIM LORD
baitmen  —  THE DOORS OF HIS FACE
bricklayers  —  THE TOWER OF BABYLON
bonsai  —  SLOW SCULPTURE
trees  —  SOLITUDE
the Tree  —  GUIDE DOG
the quickening  —  THE QUICKENING
the doors of his face, the lamps of his mouth  —  THE DOORS OF HIS FACE
the Josephson Junction  —  AT THE RIALTO
the Grand Tour  —  CALL HIM LORD
the Great White Way  —  TIME CONSIDERED AS A HELIX OF PRECIOUS STONES
the sky

Then she was falling into the sky.  —  THE GIRL WHO FELL INTO THE SKY
Into the stars
Into the night
Nighttown  —  GONNA ROLL THE BONES
Nassers  —  MOTHER TO THE WORLD
Neil Fisk  —  HELL IS THE ABSENCE OF GOD
nests  —  GUIDE DOG
normal family life  —  DADDY'S WORLD
Notes on the History of the World  —  MOTHER TO THE WORLD
Nebulas
Nutshell
Novelette.

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