What happened to the rolling eligibility?
It has been abolished and only works published during the previous calendar year are eligible. For the 2009 Nebula Awards, works which receive at least five (5) recommendations under the previous Nebula Awards® rules and were published after July 1, 2008, but did not make the 2008 Preliminary Ballot shall be nominated per these rules during the nomination period, with the number of recommendations they received added to their total number of nominations. Members who recommended these works will not have their total number of allowed nominations reduced, but they may not nominate these works a second time.
