Search Worlds Without End

Science fiction fans have voted for the Hugo Awards for best science fiction almost every year since 1953. Science fiction professionals have presented the Nebula Awards to their peers since 1965. In all this time, lists of winners have been widely available, but the losers have usually been ignored. In 1970 long-time fan Howard DeVore started publishing a complete listing of Hugo and Nebula awards, including the stories that were nominated but did not win. The fact that stories were nominated implied that they had considerable merit. Mr. DeVore felt that a complete listing would let fans compare them.

The International Fantasy Awards may have inspired the Hugos, so he added them. DeVore brought out new editions year by year, publishing and distributing them himself with the aid of a number of devoted science fiction fans. By 1998 the task had grown to the point where Mr. DeVore happily relinquished the job to Advent. This edition includes introductory and historical essays explaining how each award got started and how nominees and winners are chosen, plus commentary in the yearly listings.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1966) - essay by Damon Knight
• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Balanced Ecology - (1965) - short story by James H. Schmitz
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• He Who Shapes - (1965) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• Computers Don't Argue - (1965) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• Becalmed in Hell - (1965) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• The Saliva Tree - (1965) - novella by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Drowned Giant - (1964) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• Nebula Awards 1965 and Roll of Honor - (1966) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1967) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
• The Secret Place - (1966) - short story by Richard McKenna
• Light of Other Days - (1966) - short story by Bob Shaw
• Who Needs Insurance? - (1966) - novelette by Robin Scott Wilson
• Among the Hairy Earthmen - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• The Last Castle - (1966) - novella by Jack Vance
• Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• When I Was Miss Dow - (1966) - short story by Sonya Dorman
• Call Him Lord - (1966) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• In the Imagicon - (1966) - short story by George H. Smith
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - (1966) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Man in His Time - (1965) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Afterword: The Year in Science Fiction - (1967) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
• Nebula Awards 1966 and Roll of Honor - (1967) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1968) - essay by Roger Zelazny
• The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D - (1967) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Mirror of Ice - (1967) - short story by Gary Wright
• Aye, and Gomorrah - (1967) - short story by Samuel R. Delany
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Behold the Man - (1966) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• Weyr Search - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• Afterword (Nebula Award Stories No. 3) - (1968) - essay by Roger Zelazny
• Nebula Awards 1967 - essay by uncredited
• Roll of Honour (Nebula Award Stories No. 3) - essay by uncredited
• 1966 Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited
• 1965 Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1969) - essay by Poul Anderson
• Foreword: The Science Fiction Novel in 1968 - (1969) - essay by Willis E. McNelly
• Mother to the World - (1968) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• The Planners - (1968) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Sword Game - (1968) - short story by H. H. Hollis
• The Listeners - (1968) - novelette by James E. Gunn
• Dragonrider - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• In Memoriam - Anthony Boucher - (1969) - essay by J. Francis McComas
• In Memoriam - Rosel George Brown - (1969) - essay by Daniel F. Galouye
• In Memoriam - Bernard I. Kahn - (1969) - essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• In Memoriam - Groff Conklin - (1969) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• In Memoriam - Anna Kavan - (1969) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• In Memoriam - Gerald Kersh - (1969) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• In Memoriam - Frank Owen - (1969) - essay by Emil Petaja
• In Memoriam - Edison Marshall - (1969) - essay by Alva Rogers
• In Memoriam - Mervyn Peake - (1969) - essay by Michael Moorcock
• In Memoriam - Stuart Palmer - (1969) - essay by Karen Anderson
• In Memoriam - Arthur Sellings - (1969) - essay by John Carnell
• In Memoriam - A. A. Wyn - (1969) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• In Memoriam - Harl Vincent - (1969) - essay by Forrest J. Ackerman

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories No. 5) - (1970) - essay by James Blish
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Passengers - (1968) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Not Long Before the End - (1969) - short story by Larry Niven
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• The Man Who Learned Loving - (1969) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• The SF Novel in 1969 - (1970) - essay by Darko Suvin
• Short SF in 1968 - (1970) - essay by Alexei Panshin

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 6) - (1971) - essay by Clifford D. Simak
• Science Fiction and Literary Tradition - (1971) - essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• In the Queue - (1970) - short story by Keith Laumer
• The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories - (1970) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Continued on Next Rock - (1970) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• By the Falls - (1970) - short story by Harry Harrison
• The Second Inquisition - (1970) - novelette by Joanna Russ

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories Seven) - (1972) - essay by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 1971: The Year in Science Fiction - (1972) - essay by Damon Knight
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• The Last Ghost - (1971) - short story by Stephen Goldin
• The Encounter - (1970) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• Sky - (1971) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Mount Charity - (1971) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Good News from the Vatican - (1971) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Horse of Air - (1970) - short story by Gardner Dozois
• Heathen God - (1971) - short story by George Zebrowski
• Poor Man, Beggar Man - (1971) - novelette by Joanna Russ
• The Giberel - (1971) - short story by Doris Pitkin Buck
• The Missing Man - (1971) - novella by Katherine MacLean
• Nebula Award Science Fiction, 1965-1970, The Science - (1972) - essay by Poul Anderson
• Nebula Award Science Fiction, 1965-1970, The Fiction - (1972) - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
• In Memoriam (Nebula Award Stories Seven) - essay by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• Award-Winning Science Fiction, 1965-1971 (Nebula Award Stories Seven) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: So Why Aren't We Rich? (Nebula Award Stories 8) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Shaffery Among the Immortals - (1972) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
• When It Changed - (1972) - short story by Joanna Russ
• On the Downhill Side - (1972) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Nebula Awards (Nebula Award Stories 8) - (1973) - essay by uncredited
• Hugo Awards (Nebula Award Stories 8) - (1973) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 9) - (1974) - essay by Kate Wilhelm
• The Death of Dr. Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Shark - (1973) - short story by Edward Bryant
• With Morning Comes Mistfall - (1973) - short story by George R. R. Martin
• The Future of Science: Prometheus, Apollo, Athena - (1974) - essay by Ben Bova
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - (1973) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• A Thing of Beauty - (1973) - short story by Norman Spinrad
• Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - (1973) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 1973: The Year in Science Fiction - (1974) - essay by Damon Knight
• The Childhood of the Human Hero - (1973) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• The Nebula Winners, 1965-1973 - (1974) - essay by uncredited
• The Authors (Nebula Award Stories 9) - (1974) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 10) - (1975) - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Engine at Heartspring's Center - (1974) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• If the Stars Are Gods - (1974) - novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
• Twilla - (1974) - novelette by Tom Reamy
• Ten Years of Nebula Awards - (1975) - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
• As the Wall Crumbles - (1975) - essay by Robert Scholes
• After King Kong Fell - (1973) - short story by Philip José Farmer
• The Day Before the Revolution - (1974) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Rest is Silence - (1974) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• Born with the Dead - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Nebula Winners, 1965-1974 - (1975) - essay by uncredited
• The Hugo Winners (Nebula Awards Ten) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 11) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Acknowledgements (Nebula Award Stories 11) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• End Game - (1975) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
• 1975: The Year in Science Fiction, or Let's Hear It for the Decline and Fall of the Science Fiction Empire! - essay by Peter Nicholls
• Home is the Hangman - (1975) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
• Potential and Actuality in Science Fiction - essay by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Shatterday - (1975) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• San Diego Lightfoot Sue - (1975) - novelette by Tom Reamy
• Time Deer - (1974) - shortstory by Craig Strete
• The Nebula Winners, 1965/1975 - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1978) - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
• A Crowd of Shadows - (1976) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep - (1975) - shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone
• Tricentennial - (1976) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• In the Bowl - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
• Science Fiction in the Marketplace - (1978) - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Academic Viewpoint - (1978) - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Nebula Awards, 1975, 1976: Win, Place, and Show - (1977) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Winners 13) - (1980) - essay by Samuel R. Delany
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Air Raid - (1977) - shortstory by John Varley
• The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Stardance - (1977) - novella by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
• Aztecs - (1977) - novella by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Nebula Winners, 1965-1977 - (1980) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A Guide to the Perplexed - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
• Stone - (1978) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye - (1977) - novelette by Charles L. Grant
• Science Fiction: 1938 - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Future of Science Fiction - essay by Norman Spinrad
• An Excerpt from Dreamsnake - shortfiction by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Little Green Men from Afar - (1976) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Cassandra - (1978) - shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
• Seven American Nights - (1978) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• The Nebula Winners, 1965-1978 - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1981) - essay by Frank Herbert
• Camps - (1979) - novelette by Jack Dann
• Sandkings - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• The Straining Your Eyes Through the Viewscreen Blues - (1981) - essay by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• giANTS - (1979) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• We Have Met the Mainstream... - (1981) - essay by Ben Bova
• The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand - (1979) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Unaccompanied Sonata - (1979) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
• Appendix A: Nebula Awards 1979 - (1981) - essay by uncredited
• Appendix B: Fifteen Years of Nebula Winners - (1981) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 16) - (1982) - essay by Jerry Pournelle
• Grotto of the Dancing Deer - (1980) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Why Is There So Little Science in Literature? - (1982) - essay by Gregory Benford
• Ginungagap - (1980) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 1980: Whatever Weirdness Lingers - (1982) - essay by Michael Glyer
• Rautavaara's Case - (1980) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• 1980: The Year in Fantastic Films - (1982) - essay by Bill Warren
• The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• What Did 1980 Mean? - (1982) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Secrets of the Heart - (1980) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• Appendixes - (1982) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Award Stories 17) - essay by Joe Haldeman
• 1981 and Counting - (1982) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Venice Drowned - (1981) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Quiet - (1981) - shortstory by George Guthridge
• Going Under - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann
• Johnny Mnemonic - (1981) - shortstory by William Gibson
• Films and Television--1981 - (1982) - essay by Baird Searles
• Zeke - (1981) - shortstory by Tim Sullivan
• The Saturn Game - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Disciples - (1981) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• The Quickening - (1981) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley
• The Claw of the Conciliator (Excerpt) - (1981) - shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
• Meeting Place - (1980) - poem by Ken Duffin
• On Science Fiction - (1980) - poem by Thomas M. Disch
• Appendices - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1983) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
• (Excerpt From) No Enemy But Time - (1982) - shortfiction by Michael Bishop
• The Pope of the Chimps - (1982) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Burning Chrome - (1982) - novelette by William Gibson
• Fire Watch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Corridors - (1982) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Another Orphan - (1982) - novelette by John Kessel
• A Letter from the Clearys - (1982) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• The Nebula Winners, 1965-1981 - (1983) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Nebula Awards #19) - essay by Marta Randall
• Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
• The Peacemaker - (1983) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette by Ian Watson
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Homefaring - (1983) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The 1983 Nebula Awards Nominees - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Winners - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 20) - essay by George Zebrowski
• 1984 or Against - essay by Algis Budrys
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
• New Rose Hotel - (1984) - shortstory by William Gibson
• The Greening of Bed-Stuy - (1984) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Morning Child - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• A Cabin on the Coast - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Dogs' Lives - (1984) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Eichmann Variations - (1984) - shortstory by George Zebrowski
• Love Song to Lucy - (1983) - poem by Helen Ehrlich
• Lucy Answers Back - (1983) - poem by Helen Ehrlich
• Saul's Death - (1983) - poem by Joe Haldeman
• Science Fiction Films of 1984 - essay by Bill Warren
• SFWA, the Guild - essay by Norman Spinrad

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by George Zebrowski
• What Was 1985 That We Were Mindful of It? - essay by Algis Budrys
• Heirs of the Perisphere - (1985) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Out of All Them Bright Stars - (1985) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• The Fringe - (1985) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• More Than the Sum of His Parts - (1985) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Portraits of His Children - (1985) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets - (1984) - poem by Bruce Boston
• Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) - (1984) - poem by Siv Cedering
• The Steam-Powered Word Processor - (1986) - shortfiction by Arthur C. Clarke
• Paper Dragons - (1985) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
• Effing the Ineffable - (1987) - essay by Gregory Benford
• Science Fiction Films of 1985 - essay by Bill Warren

Nebula Awards 22: SFWA Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1986 - Nebula Awards Showcase

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1988) - essay by George Zebrowski
• 1986, Reduced from 2000 - (1988) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Robot Dreams - (1986) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Seven Steps to Grand Master - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Tangents - (1986) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Surviving - (1986) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• The Girl Who Fell into the Sky - (1986) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• Listening to Brahms - (1986) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• R & R - (1986) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• Salvage - (1986) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Newton Sleep - (1986) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Rhysling Poetry Award Winners (1986) - (1988) - essay by George Zebrowski
• The Neighbor's Wife - (1985) - poem by Susan Palwick
• Shipwrecked on Destiny Five - (1985) - poem by Andrew Joron
• Science Fiction Movies of 1986 - (1988) - essay by Bill Warren

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 23) - essay by Michael Bishop
• The World Renews Itself: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1987 - essay by Ian Watson
• In Memoriam: Alfred Bester 1913 1987 - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Forever Yours, Anna - (1987) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Flowers of Edo - (1987) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Schwarzschild Radius - (1987) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Witness - (1986) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Judgment Call - (1987) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Glassblower's Dragon - (1987) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• Rhysling Poetry Award Winners (1987) - essay by Michael Bishop
• Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope - (1986) - poem by Jonathan V. Post
• A Dream of Heredity - (1986) - poem by John Calvin Rezmerski
• Daedalus - (1986) - poem by W. Gregory Stewart
• Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Freezeframe - (1986) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• The Blind Geometer - (1986) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Spelling God with the Wrong Blocks - (1987) - shortstory by James Morrow
• DX - (1987) - poem by Joe Haldeman
• Science Fiction Movies of 1987 - essay by Bill Warren
• About the Nebula Award - essay by Michael Bishop
• Past Nebula Award Winners - essay by uncredited

As the most respected anthology of the year in science fiction, Nebula Awards 24 gives what science fiction writers themselves regard as the best of the best.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 24) - essay by Michael Bishop
• Themes and Variations: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1988 - essay by Ian Watson
• Free Associating About Falling Free - essay by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Ray Bradbury: Ambassador to the Future - essay by Greg Bear
• The Collector Speaks - (1984) - poem by Ray Bradbury
• More Than One Way to Burn a Book - essay by Ray Bradbury
• Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge - (1988) - shortstory by James Morrow
• The Devil's Arithmetic (Excerpt) - shortfiction by Jane Yolen
• Rhysling Award Winners (1988) - essay by Michael Bishop
• The Nightmare Collector - (1987) - poem by Bruce Boston
• Rocky Road to Hoe - (1987) - poem by Suzette Haden Elgin
• White Trains - (1987) - poem by Lucius Shepard
• Schrödinger's Kitten - (1988) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• The Fort Moxie Branch - (1988) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• In Memoriam - essay by Michael Bishop
• In Memoriam: Clifford D. Simak - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
• In Memoriam: Robert A. Heinlein - essay by Frank M. Robinson
• Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus - (1988) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The Other Dead Man - (1988) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Daily Chernobyl - (1988) - poem by Robert Frazier
• The Last of the Winnebagos - (1988) - novella by Connie Willis
• My Alphabet Starts Where Your Alphabet Ends - essay by Paul Di Filippo
• The Year of the Pratfall: SF Movies of 1988 - essay by Bill Warren
• About the Nebulas - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 25) - essay by Michael Bishop
• What Is Science Fiction? - (1977) - essay by Damon Knight
• Ripples in the Dirac Sea - (1988) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Avalanche: A View on the SF and Fantasy Novels of 1989 - essay by Ian Watson
• "Snake Charm": The Healer's War, Chapter 16 - shortfiction by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Some Reflections on The Healer's War - essay by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Solace - (1989) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• The Mountains of Mourning - (1989) - novella by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Rhysling Award Winners (1989) - essay by Michael Bishop
• Salinity - (1988) - poem by Robert Frazier
• In the Darkened Hours - (1988) - poem by Bruce Boston
• Winter Solstice, Camelot Station - (1988) - poem by John M. Ford
• For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989) - novelette by Mike Resnick
• Vulgar Art - (1990) - essay by Orson Scott Card
• The Ommatidium Miniatures - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• The Great Nebula Sweep - essay by Paul Di Filippo
• At the Rialto - (1989) - novelette by Connie Willis
• The Exile's Paradigm - (1990) - essay by Richard Grant
• In Blue - (1989) - novella by John Crowley
• Year of the Bat: Science Fiction Movies of 1989 - essay by Bill Warren
• About the Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - essay by uncredited

The members of the Science Fiction Writers of America choose by ballot the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story of the year. Nebula Awards 26 features works by such writers as Terry Bisson, Kathryn Cramer, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. LeGuin, and George Zebrowski.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by James Morrow
• "Democrazy", the Marketplace, and the American Way: Remarks on the Year 1990 in Science Fiction - (1992) - essay by Kathryn Cramer
• The Shobies' Story - (1990) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Tower of Babylon - (1990) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• In Memoriam: Donald A. Wollheim - (1992) - essay by George Zebrowski
• A Tribute to Lester del Rey - (1992) - essay by Terry Brooks
• Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates - (1990) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• 1/72nd Scale - (1990) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Lieserl - (1990) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Epitaph for Dreams - (1989) - poem by G. Sutton Breiding
• Dear Spacemen - (1989) - poem by Patrick McKinnon
• Science Fiction Movies of 1990: Spiders, Scissors, and Schwarzenegger - (1992) - essay by Bill Warren
• Over the Long Haul - (1990) - novelette by Martha Soukup
• The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk - (1990) - novelette by Dafydd ab Hugh
• The Hemingway Hoax - (1990) - novella by Joe Haldeman

Besides offering works by winners (Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Mike Conner, and Alan Brennert) in all four Nebula categories, this collection continues the tradition of featuring a variety of fiction and essays not found in other best-of-the-year anthologies. Includes tributes to Isaac Asimov as well as Asimov's final words, Farewell, Farewell, taken from the booklet distributed at his memorial service.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 27) - (1993) - essay by James Morrow
• Science Fiction for What? Remarks on the Year 1991 - (1993) - essay by Kathryn Cramer
• Guide Dog - (1991) - novelette by Mike Conner
• Ma Qui - (1991) - shortstory by Alan Brennert
• Three Scenes from Stations of the Tide (excerpt) - (1991) - shortfiction by Michael Swanwick
• In Memoriam: Isaac Asimov (Nebula Awards 27) - (1993) - essay by uncredited
• Introducing Isaac - (1993) - essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• Asimov: The Last Questions - (1993) - interview of Isaac Asimov - interview by George Zebrowski
• Untitled Epitaph for Isaac Asimov - (1993) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Farewell, Farewell - (1993) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Farewell Farewell 1992)
• Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy - (1991) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• The Dark - (1991) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• They're Made Out of Meat - (1991) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Precessing the Simulacra for Fun and Profit - (1990) - essay by Bruce Sterling
• Auteurs at Work? The Fantastic Films of 1991 - (1993) - essay by Bruce Warren
• Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh - (1990) - poem by Joe Haldeman
• The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire - (1990) - poem by David Memmott
• Buffalo - (1991) - shortstory by John Kessel
• Getting Real - (1991) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• the button, and what you know - (1991) - poem by W. Gregory Stewart
• Beggars in Spain - (1991) - novella by Nancy Kress
• About the Nebula Awards - (1993) - essay by uncredited
• Selected Titles from the 1991 Preliminary Nebula Ballot - (1993) - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - (1993) - essay by uncredited

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Table of Content:

• Introduction - essay by James Morrow
• Is Science Fiction Out to Lunch? Some Thoughts on the Year 1992 - essay by John Clute
• Even the Queen - (1992) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Danny Goes to Mars - (1992) - novelette by Pamela Sargent
• Matter's End - (1989) - novella by Gregory Benford
• In Memoriam: Fritz Leiber - essay by James Morrow
• Gentleman Fritz - essay by Poul Anderson
• Doing It Right - essay by David G. Hartwell
• A World Without Fritz - essay by Stephen King
• Let There Be Fandom - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The July Ward - (1991) - novelette by S. N. Dyer
• Lennon Spex - (1992) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• The Mountain to Mohammed - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Hopeful Monsters: The SF and Fantasy Films of 1992 - essay by Nick Lowe
• Song of the Martian Cricket - (1991) - poem by David Lunde
• Vinland the Dream - (1991) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats - (1991) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• City of Truth - (1991) - novella by James Morrow

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own (often highly idiosyncratic) excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 29) - essay by Pamela Sargent
• The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - essay by Gregory Benford and Eleanor Arnason and Paul Di Filippo and Rebecca Ore and Maureen F. McHugh and Michael Swanwick and Robert J. Sawyer and Norman Spinrad
• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore - (1991) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Festival Night (from Red Mars) - shortfiction by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Alfred - (1992) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• In Memoriam: Avram Davidson 1923-1993 - (1993) - essay by Lucius Shepard
• In Memoriam: Lester del Rey 1915-1993 - (1993) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• In Memoriam: Chad Oliver 1928-1993 - (1993) - essay by Howard Waldrop
• Georgia on My Mind - (1993) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• To Be from Earth - (1992) - poem by William J. Daciuk
• Will - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Death on the Nile - (1993) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Big Teeth and Small Magic: SF and Fantasy Films of 1993 - essay by Kathi Maio
• England Underway - (1993) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• The Franchise - (1993) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Night We Buried Road Dog - (1993) - novella by Jack Cady

Excellent in all departments (Kirkus Reviews), Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-of-the-year anthologies.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 30) - (1996) - essay by Pamela Sargent
• The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - (1996) - essay by John Kessel and Nicola Griffith and Pat Murphy and James E. Gunn and Jack Dann and Sheila Finch and Paul Di Filippo
• Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - (1994) - novella by Mike Resnick
• Inspiration - (1994) - shortstory by Ben Bova
• Virtual Love - (1994) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• None So Blind - (1994) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Fortyday - (1994) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• In Memorium: Robert Bloch - (1994) - essay by Frank M. Robinson
• The Martian Child - (1994) - novelette by David Gerrold
• Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale - (1994) - poem by Robert Frazier and W. Gregory Stewart
• Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over - (1993) - poem by Jeff VanderMeer
• Spacer's Compass - (1993) - poem by Bruce Boston
• Understanding Entropy - (1994) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• I Know What You're Thinking - (1994) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• A Defense of the Social Contracts - (1993) - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• From a Park Bench to the Great Beyond: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of 1994 - (1996) - essay by Kathi Maio
• The Matter of Seggri - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Moving Mars (excerpt) - (1993) - shortfiction by Greg Bear

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers' own demanding peers, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best-of-year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, "essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Pamela Sargent
• Rumaging Through the Giant Purse - essay by Paul Di Filippo
• Touchstones for Gender-Benders - essay by Nancy Spinger
• Planet Deseret - essay by Judith Moffett
• The British Scene - essay by Ian Watson
• Gresham's Law and Science Fiction - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Family Values - essay by Michaela Roessner
• Solitude - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Death and the Librarian - (1994) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• Alien Jane - (1995) - shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
• Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• In Memoriam: John Brunner and Roger Zelazny - essay by Ian Watson and Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman, II
• The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Resurrection Man's Legacy - (1995) - novelette by Dale Bailey
• Pilot, Pilot - (1994) - poem by David Lunde
• Skin of Glass - (1994) - poem by Dan Raphael
• You See But You Do Not Observe - (1995) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• Old Legends - (1995) - essay by Gregory Benford
• A. E. van Vogt: Prefatory Remarks - essay by Harlan Ellison
• A. E. van Vogt: An Appreciation - essay by Charles L. Harness
• Enchanted Village - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• It'll Float, but Can It Fly? Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of 1995 - essay by Kathi Maio
• The Narcissus Plague - (1994) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• Last Summer at Mars Hill - (1994) - novella by Elizabeth Hand

Works by Nicola Griffith, Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Levinson, Jack Vance, and many others grace this volume of "the closest thing SF has to a literary yearbook" (Locus).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1998) - essay by Jack Dann
• Keeping Up - essay by Elizabeth Hand
• Must Have Been Something I Ate - essay by Lucius Shepard
• Interactive Science Fiction: 1996 - essay by Keith Ferrell
• The British Scene (Nebula Awards 32) - essay by Ian Watson
• The Road to 1996 - essay by Sean McMullen and Terry Dowling
• Who Is Killing Science Fiction? - essay by Norman Spinrad
• Abandoned Cities - essay by Robert Frazier
• Must and Shall - (1995) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• In the Shade of the Slowboat Man - (1996) - shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith
• Da Vinci Rising - (1995) - novella by Jack Dann
• Variants of the Obsolete - (1995) - poem by Marge Simon
• Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation - (1995) - poem by Bruce Boston
• A Birthday - (1995) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• The Chronology Protection Case - (1995) - novelette by Paul Levinson
• Jack Vance: Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy - (1997) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• My Friend Jack - (1998) - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Men Return - (1957) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Yaguara - (1994) - novella by Nicola Griffith
• Science Fiction Films of 1996 - (1998) - essay by Bill Warren
• Five Fucks - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• Lifeboat on a Burning Sea - (1995) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Selected Titles from the 1996 Preliminary Nebula Ballot - (1998) - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - (1998) - essay by uncredited
• About the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - (1998) - essay by uncredited

Together at last -- the all-time top Nebula Award-winning author and the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1999) - essay by Connie Willis
• Sister Emily's Lightship - (1996) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Nebula Award for Best Novel - (1999) - essay by Connie Willis
• An Excerpt from The Moon and the Sun - (1999) - shortfiction by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Flowers of Aulit Prison - (1996) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• The Crab Lice - (1996) - shortstory by Gregory Feeley
• The 1997 Author Emeritus: Nelson Bond - (1999) - essay by Connie Willis
• The Bookshop - (1941) - shortstory by Nelson S. Bond
• Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream - (1997) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
• The Dead - (1996) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Rhysling Award Winners - (1999) - essay by Connie Willis
• Day Omega - (1996) - poem by W. Gregory Stewart
• Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes - (1996) - poem by Terry A. Garey
• The Elizabeth Complex - (1996) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Abandon in Place - (1996) - novella by Jerry Oltion
• The Grand Master Award: Poul Anderson - (1999) - essay by Connie Willis
• A Tribute to Poul Anderson - (1999) - essay by Jack Williamson
• The Martyr - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Alive and Well: Messages from the Edge (almost) of the Millennium - (1999) - essay by Kim Stanley Robinson and Michael Cassutt and Sheila Williams and Christie Golden and Cynthia Felice and Ellen Datlow and Beth Meacham and Wil McCarthy and Geoffrey A. Landis
• A Few Last Words to Put It All in Perspective - (1999) - essay by Connie Willis

The best SF writers of the year represented once again in volume 34 of the Nebula Awards collection series, edited this year by a beloved, bestselling SF writer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Science Fictional Century - (2000) - essay by Gregory Benford
• Reading the Bones - (1998) - novella by Sheila Finch
• Lost Girls - (1997) - novelette by Jane Yolen
• Thirteen Ways to Water - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Forever Peace (excerpt) - (1997) - shortfiction by Joe Haldeman
• Genre and Genesis: A Discussion of Science Fiction's Literary Role - (2000) - essay by Gregory Benford
• Why Can't We All Just Live Together?: A Vision of Genre Paradise Lost - (1998) - essay by Jonathan Lethem
• Respectability - (1998) - essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• Gatekeepers and Literary Bigots - (2000) - essay by George Zebrowski
• Good News about SF in Bad Publishing Times; or, Growth, Change, and the Preservation of Quality in the Literature of Genre - (2000) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• The Truth About Sci-Fi Movies, Revealed at Last - (2000) - essay by Bill Warren
• Winter Fire - (1997) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Lethe - (1997) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• The Mercy Gate - (1998) - novelette by Mark J. McGarry
• The 1998 Author Emeritus: William Tenn - (2000) - essay by George Zebrowski
• My Life and Hard Times in SF - (2000) - essay by William Tenn
• The Grand Master Award: Hal Clement - (2000) - essay by Poul Anderson
• Uncommon Sense - (1946) - shortstory by Hal Clement
• Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother - (1997) - poem by John Grey
• why goldfish shouldn't use power tools - (1997) - poem by Laurel Winter

Edited by the widely acclaimed SF author Robert Silverberg, the Nebula Awards series is "the pulse of modern science fiction" (The New York Times Book Review)

The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

The Nebula Awards anthology series has now reached its thirty-fifth year. This edition contains the complete award-winning texts by Ted Chiang, Mary A. Turzillo, Leslie What, and Octavia E. Butler (an excerpt from her novel The Parable of the Talents); a report on the field ("still inarguably dynamic") by Gary K. Wolfe; runner-up stories by David Marusek and Michael Swanwick; an early story by 2000 Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss; and 2000 Author Emeritus Daniel Keyes's account of how he wrote Flowers for Algernon.

In his introduction, editor Robert Silverberg looks back wryly at Damon Knight, the beginnings of SFWA, and the first Nebula banquets.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Nebulas at Century's End - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Story of Your Life - (1998) - novella by Ted Chiang
• Mars Is No Place for Children - (1999) - novelette by Mary A. Turzillo
• The Cost of Doing Business - (1999) - shortstory by Leslie What
• Parable of the Talents (epilogue) - (1998) - shortfiction by Octavia E. Butler
• Unhidden Agendas, Unfinished Dialogues: 1999 in Science Fiction - essay by Gary K. Wolfe
• The Wedding Album - (1999) - novella by David Marusek
• Radiant Doors - (1998) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Grand Master Award: Brian W. Aldiss - essay by Harry Harrison
• Judas Danced - (1958) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Author Emeritus 2000: Daniel Keyes - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey - (2000) - essay by Daniel Keyes
• Confessions of a Body Thief - (1998) - poem by Bruce Boston
• egg horror poem - (1998) - poem by Laurel Winter
• Appendixes - essay by uncredited

Selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America® Nebula® Awards Showcase 2002 presents the finest award-winning fiction of the year-and includes insightful commentary about the current state of science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Philip Jose Farmer: An Appreciation - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Robert Sheckley: An Appreciation - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Daddy's World - (1999) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Darwin's Radio (excerpt) - shortfiction by Greg Bear
• macs - (1999) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Stellar Harvest - (1999) - novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• Goddesses - (2000) - novella by Linda Nagata
• Commentary: Science Fiction and the World - essay by Ken MacLeod and Nalo Hopkinson and Paul J. McAuley and John Clute and Kathleen Ann Goonan and Gene Wolfe and Damon Knight and Andy Duncan and Gwyneth Jones
• A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows - (1999) - novelette by Gardner Dozois

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field-and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Entering the Field - (2003) - essay by Nancy Kress
• The 2001 Nebula Awards Ballot - (2003) - essay by uncredited
• The Cure for Everything - (2000) - shortstory by Severna Park
• The Ultimate Earth - (2000) - novella by Jack Williamson
• Betty Ballantine Appreciation - (2003) - essay by Shelly Shapiro
• Louise's Ghost - (2001) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Undone - (2001) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• My Wife Returns As She Would Have It - (2000) - poem by Bruce Boston
• January Fires - (2001) - poem by Joe Haldeman
• The Elephants on Neptune - (2000) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Scott Edelman
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Terry Bisson
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Andy Duncan
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Mindy L. Klasky
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Harry Turtledove
• Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada - (2003) - essay by Michael Cassutt
• The Quantum Rose (excerpt) - (2000) - shortfiction by Catherine Asaro

Presented by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r), the Nebula Awards honor the extraordinary work of those authors whose stories offer fresh perspectives on the genre. Featuring the year's best, the Nebula Awards Showcase is an annual tradition bringing readers the finest science fiction from today's most respected authors.

This year's winners include New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Richard Chwedyk, Carol Emshwiller, and Ted Chiang.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Heart of the Nebula (Nebula Awards Showcase 2004) - essay by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Bronte's Egg - (2002) - novella by Richard Chwedyk
• Hell Is the Absence of God - (2001) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• Remembering Damon Knight: Damon Knight - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Remembering Damon Knight: Damon - essay by Carol Emshwiller
• Remembering Damon Knight: I Remember Damon - essay by James E. Gunn
• Remembering Damon Knight: Damon Knight the Teacher - essay by Robin Scott Wilson
• Remembering Damon Knight: Oh You Kid! A Personal View of Damon Knight - essay by Edward Bryant
• Remembering Damon Knight: Curious Damon Knight - essay by Eileen Gunn
• Remembering Damon Knight: Sensei Wonder - essay by Leslie What
• American Gods (excerpt) - (2001) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's - (2001) - novella by Adam-Troy Castro
• A Few Things I Know about Ursula - (2004) - essay by Molly Gloss
• Changing Planes (excerpt) - (2003) - shortfiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City - (2001) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• Cut - (2001) - shortstory by Megan Lindholm
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Appreciating Katherine MacLean - essay by Sharon Lee
• Games - (1953) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Lobsters - (2001) - novelette by Charles Stross
• Creature - (2001) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• 2003 Final Nebula Ballot - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Awards Winners - essay by uncredited

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy-Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jack Dann
• The Mask of the Rex - (2002) - novelette by Richard Bowes
• The Last of the O-Forms - (2002) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - Introduction - essay by Jack Dann
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - Deep in the Heart of the State of the Art - essay by Bruce Sterling
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - New Weird - essay by China Miéville
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The New Space Opera - essay by Paul J. McAuley
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The Interstitial Arts Foundation - essay by Ellen Kushner
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The Romantic Underground: An Exploration of a Nonexistent and Self-Denying Nonmovement - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• Grandma - (2002) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Grand Master Robert Silverberg: The Stochastic Writer - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Lambing Season - (2002) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• 0wnz0red - (2002) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Film: The Year in Review - essay by Lucius Shepard
• Knapsack Poems - (2002) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• Coraline (excerpt) - (2002) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Tripping with the Alchemist - (2003) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Author Emeritus Charles L. Harness: Wielder of Light - essay by George Zebrowski
• Quarks at Appomattox - (1983) - shortstory by Charles L. Harness
• Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs - (2003) - novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• Potherb Gardening - (2002) - poem by Ruth Berman
• Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy - (2002) - poem by Charles M. Saplak and Mike Allen
• Goodbye to All That - (2003) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Story Behind the Book: A Personal View - essay by Elizabeth Moon
• The Speed of Dark (excerpt) - (2002) - shortfiction by Elizabeth Moon
• The Empire of Ice Cream - (2003) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r) bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought-provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year's winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Table of Contens:

• Introduction - (2006) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• The Green Leopard Plague - (2003) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• Basement Magic - (2003) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• Dry Bones - (2003) - novelette by William Sanders
• The Masters Speak: Introduction - (2006) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• Science Fiction Century - (2006) - essay by Jack Williamson
• The Way It Was - (2006) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Teaching the Art - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Change and Okay In All Around I See - (2006) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• Then and Now - (2006) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The Voluntary State - (2004) - novelette by Christopher Rowe
• Grand Master Anne McCaffrey: An Appreciation - (2006) - essay by Jody Lynn Nye
• The Ship Who Sang - (1961) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• Coming to Terms - (2004) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• Embracing-the-New - (2004) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Paladin of Souls (excerpt) - (2003) - shortfiction by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Zora and the Zombie - (2004) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Film: The Year in Review - (2006) - essay by Kathy Maio
• Travels with My Cats - (2004) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Just Distance - (2003) - poem by Roger Dutcher
• Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks - (2003) - poem by Theodora Goss
• The Cookie Monster - (2003) - novella by Vernor Vinge

This annual publication as chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America brings together the best of the year's stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year's award-winning authors include Joe Haldeman (Novel), Kelly Link (Novella, Novelette), and Carol Emshwiller (Short Story).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - essay by uncredited
• The 2006 Nebula Awards Final Ballot - essay by uncredited
• Honoring Andre: The Andre Norton Award - essay by Josepha Sherman
• Magic for Beginners - (2005) - novella by Kelly Link
• Short Fiction Round Table - essay by Ellen Datlow and Ben Bova and Bill Fawcett and Martin H. Greenberg
• I Live with You - (2005) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Why Nebulas Matter - essay by Jack McDevitt
• The End of the World as We Know It - (2004) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• Daring the Boundaries - essay by Catherine Asaro
• Still Life with Boobs - (2005) - shortstory by Anne Harris
• Whither Canadian SF & F? - essay by Robert J. Sawyer
• Identity Theft - (2005) - novella by Robert J. Sawyer
• My Mother, Dancing - (2004) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• To Boldly Go: A Strange, Beautiful Future for Genre Cover Art - essay by John Picacio
• The Mice that Roared - essay by Lou Anders
• Camouflage (excerpt) - shortfiction by Joe Haldeman
• Soul Searching - (2004) - poem by Tim Pratt
• No Ruined Lunar City - (2004) - poem by Greg Beatty
• Think Outside the Page - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• The Faery Handbag - (2004) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Men Are Trouble - (2004) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Harlan Ellison: The Man in E Minor - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie - (1968) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• About the Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - essay by uncredited
• Grand Master Award Winners - essay by uncredited
• The Authors Emeriti - essay by uncredited

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year's stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year's award-winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) - essay by Ben Bova
• Echo - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• Burn - (2005) - novella by James Patrick Kelly
• The Books That Saved SFWA - [Anthopology 101 - 16] - (2007) - essay by Bud Webster
• Two Hearts - (2005) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Science Fiction Poetry - essay by Joe Haldeman
• The Strip Search - (2005) - poem by Mike Allen
• The Tin Men - (2005) - poem by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• Knowledge Of - (2005) - poem by Ruth Berman
• The State of Amazing, Astounding, Fantastic Fiction in the Twenty-First Century - essay by Orson Scott Card
• The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations - (2005) - shortstory by Eugene Mirabelli
• James Gunn, Grand Master - essay by John Kessel
• The Listeners - (1968) - novelette by James E. Gunn
• Howl's Moving Castle: Book to Film - essay by Diana Wynne Jones
• Seeker (exceprt) - (2005) - shortfiction by Jack McDevitt
• I Have Seen the Future and It Ain't Got a Lot of Dead Trees In It - essay by Mike Resnick
• The Andre Norton Award: Magic or Madness - essay by Justine Larbalestier

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year's stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year's award-winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ellen Datlow
• About The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - essay by uncredited
• About the Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited
• The 2008 Nebula Awards Final Ballot - essay by uncredited
• The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - (2007) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• Always - (2007) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Where the Sidewalk Ends - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Why I Write Science Fiction - essay by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Titanium Mike Saves the Day - (2007) - shortstory by David D. Levine
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - (2006) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union (excerpt) - (2007) - shortfiction by Michael Chabon
• About the Rhysling Award (Nebula Awards Showcase: 2009) - essay by uncredited
• Last Unicorn - (2006) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Graven Idol's Godheart - (2006) - poem by Rich Ristow
• The Journey to Kailash - (2006) - poem by Mike Allen
• Stars Seen Through Stone - (2007) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• What You Saw Was What you Got: The Year in Films - essay by Howard Waldrop
• Pan's Labyrinth: Dreaming with Eyes Wide Open - (2007) - essay by Tim Lucas
• The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change - (2007) - novelette by Kij Johnson
• About the Damon Knight Grand Master Award - essay by uncredited
• An Appreciation of Michael Moorcock - essay by Kim Newman
• The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius - (1965) - shortstory by Michael Moorcock
• The Andre Norton Award - essay by uncredited
• The New Golden Age: The Rise of Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy - essay by Gwenda Bond
• Clubbing - essay by Ellen Asher
• Captive Girl - (2006) - shortstory by Jennifer Pelland
• Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse - (2007) - shortstory by Andy Duncan
• Fountain of Age - (2007) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Past Nebula Award Winners - essay by uncredited
• The Authors Emeriti - essay by uncredited
• Ardath Mayhar, Talent from the Pines - essay by Joe R. Lansdale
• About the Editor - essay by uncredited

The year's best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume.

An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re-define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2010) - essay by Bill Fawcett
• Early SF in the Pulp Magazines - essay by Robert Weinberg
• The Space Time Pool - (2008) - novella by Catherine Asaro
• The Golden Age - (2009) - essay by David Drake
• Powers (excerpt) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Science Fiction in the Fifties - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Selected Commentaries - essay by Algis Budrys
• Rules of the Game - (1996) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• A Chance Remark - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Writing SF in the 60s - essay by Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull
• Pride and Prometheus - (2008) - novelette by John Kessel
• Science Fiction in the 1970s: The Tale of the Nerdy Duckling - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• Trophy Wives - (2008) - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Into the Eighties - essay by Lynn Abbey
• Talking About Fangs - (1995) - shortstory by M. J. Engh
• Science Fiction in the 1990s: Waiting for Godot... or Maybe Nosferatu - essay by Mike Resnick
• Place Mat by Moebius - (2007) - poem by Greg Beatty
• Eating Light - (2007) - poem by F. J. Bergmann
• The Seven Devils of Central California - (2007) - poem by Catherynne M. Valente
• Flora's Dare (excerpt) - shortfiction by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Medium with a Message - essay by Jody Lynn Nye
• WALL-E (excerpt from script) - shortfiction by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon
• The Acceptance Speech of the Bradbury Award Winner - essay by Joss Whedon
• An Appreciation of the Grand Master Harry Harrison - essay by Tom Doherty
• The Streets of Ashkelon - (1962) - shortstory by Harry Harrison

With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology. This collection of nominees for 2010's Nebula Awards includes all of the prior year's most celebrated stories, and will be published in time for the 2011 Nebula Awards in May, 2011.

2009's award winners, announced in May 2010, include Kage Baker's novella "The Women of Nell Gwynne's," Eugie Foster's novelette "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast," Kij Johnson's short story "Spar," plus Paolo Bacigalupi's novelette, "The Gambler."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• Final 2009 Nebula Ballot - essay by uncredited
• Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela - (2009) - shortstory by Saladin Ahmed
• I Remember the Future - (2008) - shortstory by Michael A. Burstein
• Non-Zero Probabilities - (2009) - shortstory by N. K. Jemisin
• Going Deep - (2009) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Bridesicle - (2009) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• Spar - (2009) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Neal Barrett, Jr.: Writer of Excellence, and My Brother - (2009) - essay by Joe R. Lansdale
• Getting Dark - (2006) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The Gambler - (2008) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Vinegar Peace (or, The Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage) - (2008) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said - (2009) - novelette by Richard Bowes
• Divining Light - (2008) - novelette by Ted Kosmatka
• A Memory of Wind - (2009) - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast - (2009) - novelette by Eugie Foster
• SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master: Joe Haldeman (Introduction) - essay by Mark Kreighbaum
• SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master: Joe Haldeman (Appreciation) - essay by Connie Willis
• A !Tangled Web - (1981) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
• The Women of Nell Gwynne's - (2009) - novella by Kage Baker
• Song for an Ancient City - (2008) - poem by Amal El-Mohtar
• Search - (2008) - poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Fireflies - (2008) - poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Other Awards (The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011) - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The editors selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) are John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, both highly acclaimed not only for their own award-winning fiction but also as coeditors of three anthologies: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, and The Secret History of Science Fiction. Stories and excerpts by Harlan Ellison™, Kij Johnson, Chris Barzak, Eric James Stone, Rachel Swirsky, Geoff Landis, Shweta Narayan, Adam Troy-Castro, James Tiptree Jr., Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, Howard Hendrix, Ann K. Schwader, Connie Willis, Terry Pratchett, and more.

Table of Contents:

• In Which Your Editors Consider the Nebula Awards of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - essay by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• Ponies - (2010) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• The Sultan of the Clouds - shortfiction by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Map of Seventeen - (2010) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• In the Astronaut Asylum - (2009) - poem by Samantha Henderson and Kendall Evans
• Pishaach - (2010) - shortfiction by Shweta Narayan
• Excerpt from Blackout/All Clear - [Blackout (Connie Willis)] - shortfiction by Connie Willis
• Bumbershoot - poem by Howard V. Hendrix
• Arvies - shortfiction by Adam-Troy Castro
• How Interesting: a Tiny Man - (2010) - shortfiction by Harlan Ellison
• The Jaguar House, in Shadow - (2010) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• The Green Book - (2010) - shortstory by Amal El-Mohtar
• That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made - (2010) - novelette by Eric James Stone
• Excerpt From I Shall Wear Midnight - shortfiction by Terry Pratchett
• To Theia - (2009) - poem by Ann K. Schwader
• The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window - (2010) - novella by Rachel Swirsky
• 2011 Nebula Awards Nominees and Honorees - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Winners - essay by uncredited
• About the Cover (Nebula Awards Showcase 2012) - essay by uncredited
• About the Editors (Nebula Awards Showcase 2012) - essay by uncredited

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America(R). The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is two-time Nebula winner, Catherine Asaro. This year's volume includes stories and excerpts by Connie Willis, Jo Walton, Kij Johnson, Geoff Ryman, John Clute, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Ferrett Steinmetz, Ken Liu, Nancy Fulda, Delia Sherman, Amal El-Mohtar, C. S. E. Cooney, David Goldman, Katherine Sparrow, E. Lily Yu, and Brad R. Torgersen.

Table of Contents:

• A Harmony of Thoughts - (2013) - essay by Catherine Asaro
• The Paper Menagerie - (2011) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• The Ice Owl - (2011) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Ado - (1988) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• The Migratory Pattern of Dancers - (2011) - novelette by Katherine Sparrow
• Peach-Creamed Honey - (2010) - poem by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Axiom of Choice - (2011) - shortstory by David W. Goldman
• Club Story - (2011) - essay by John Clute
• What We Found - (2011) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• Among Others (excerpt) - (2011) - shortfiction by Jo Walton
• Movement - (2011) - shortstory by Nancy Fulda
• Sauerkraut Station - (2011) - novelette by Ferrett Steinmetz
• The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees - (2011) - shortstory by E. Lily Yu
• Ray of Light - (2011) - novelette by Brad R. Torgersen
• The Freedom Maze (excerpt) - (2011) - shortfiction by Delia Sherman
• The Sea King's Second Bride - (2010) - poem by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Man Who Bridged the Mist - (2011) - novella by Kij Johnson
• 2012 Nebula Awards Winners, Nominees, and Honorees - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Awards Winners - essay by uncredited

The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades!

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is American fantasy writer Kij Johnson, author of three novels and associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.

This year's Nebula winners, and expected contributors, are Kim Stanley Robinson, Nancy Kress, Andy Duncan, and Aliette de Bodard, with E.C. Myers winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Kij Johnson
• Immersion - (2012) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
• Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall - (2012) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Excerpt from 2312 - shortfiction by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species - (2012) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Excerpt from Fair Coin - shortfiction by E. C. Myers
• Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain - (2012) - shortstory by Cat Rambo
• Gene Wolfe - essay by Michael Dirda
• How to Read Gene Wolfe - (2002) - essay by Neil Gaiman
• Christmas Inn - (2005) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• The Library, After - (2011) - poem by Shira Lipkin
• The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages - (2011) - poem by Megan Arkenberg
• Blue Rose Buddha - (2011) - poem by Marge Simon

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

The editor of this year's volume, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Greg Bear, author of over thirty novels, including the Nebula Award-winning Darwin's Radio and Moving Mars.

This anthology includes the winners of the Andre Norton, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars Awards, as well as the Nebula Award winners, and features Ann Leckie, Nalo Hopkinson, Rachel Swirsky, Aliette de Bodard, and Vylar Kaftan, with additional articles and poems by authors such as Robin Wayne Bailey, Samuel R. Delany, Terry A. Garey, Deborah P Kolodji, and Andrew Robert Sutton.

Table of Contents:

• The Long, Hot Summer of Science Fiction - essay by Greg Bear
• If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love - (2013) - shortfiction by Rachel Swirsky
• The Sounds of Old Earth - (2013) - shortstory by Matthew Kressel
• Selkie Stories Are for Losers - shortfiction by Sofia Samatar
• Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer - (2013) - shortfiction by Kenneth Schneyer
• Alive, Alive Oh - (2013) - shortstory by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
• The Waiting Stars - (2013) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• Paranormal Romance - (2013) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass - (2013) - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters - (2013) - novelette by Henry Lien
• In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind - (2013) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• The Litigation Master and the Monkey King - (2013) - novelette by Ken Liu
• The Weight of the Sunrise - (2013) - novella by Vylar Kaftan
• Excerpt from Ancillary Justice - shortfiction by Ann Leckie
• Finding Frqnkie: Remembering Frank M. Robinson - essay by Robin Wayne Bailey
• Excerpt from Sister Mine - shortfiction by Nalo Hopkinson
• A Life Considered as a Prism of Ever-Precious Light: An Appreciation of Samuel R. Delany - essay by Nalo Hopkinson
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• The Cat Star - (2013) - poem by Terry A. Garey
• Basho after Cinderella (III) - (2012) - poem by Deborah P. Kolodji
• Into Flight - (2013) - poem by Andrew Robert Sutton

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This year's Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff VanderMeer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Mercedes Lackey

Short Story

• "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide," Sarah Pinsker
• "The Breath of War," Aliette de Bodard
• "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family," Usman T. Malik
• "The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye," Matthew Kressel
• "The Fisher Queen," Alyssa Wong
• "When It Ends, He Catches Her," Eugie Foster

Winner

• "Jackalope Wives," Ursula Vernon

Novelette

• "Sleep Walking Now and Then," Richard Bowes
• "The Devil in America," Kai Ashante Wilson
• "The Husband Stitch," Carmen Maria Machado
• "The Magician and Laplace's Demon," Tom Crosshill
• "We Are the Cloud," Sam J. Miller

Winner

• "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i," Alaya Dawn Johnson

Novella

• Excerpt from "Calendrical Regression", Lawrence Schoen
• Excerpt from "The Mothers of Voorhisville" by Mary Rickert
• Excerpt from "The Regular" by Ken Liu
• Excerpt from "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky
• Excerpt from "We Are All Completely Fine" by Daryl Gregory

Winner

• "Yesterday's Kin" by Nancy Kress

Novel

• Excerpt from "Annihilation", Jeff VanderMeer

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

This year's editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer and editor Julie Czerneda. This year's Nebula Award winners are Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Pinsker, and Alyssa Wong, with Fran Wilde winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. Also included in this volume are works by N. K. Jemisin and Ann Leckie.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - essay by Julie E. Czerneda
• About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - essay by uncredited
• Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., Service to SFWA Award Recipient: Lawrence M. Schoen - essay by uncredited
• About the Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited
• 2015 Nebula Awards Ballot - essay by uncredited
• Madeleine - (2015) - short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• Cat Pictures Please - (2015) - short story by Naomi Kritzer
• Damage - (2015) - short story by David D. Levine
• When Your Child Strays From God - (2015) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• Today I Am Paul - (2015) - short story by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers - (2015) - short story by Alyssa Wong
• About the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards - essay by uncredited
• Shutdown - (2014) - poem by Marge Simon
• Abandoned Nursing Home - (2014) - poem by Greg Schwartz
• Our Lady of the Open Road - (2015) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• Binti - (2015) - novella by Nnedi Okorafor
• Excerpt from Raising Caine - (2015) - short fiction by Charles E. Gannon
• Excerpt from The Fifth Season - (2015) - short fiction by N. K. Jemisin
• Excerpt from Ancillary Mercy - (2015) - short fiction by Ann Leckie
• Excerpt from The Grace of Kings - (2015) - short fiction by Ken Liu
• Excerpt from Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard - (2015) - short fiction by Lawrence M. Schoen
• Excerpt from Uprooted - (2015) - short fiction by Naomi Novik
• 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien - (2014) - poem by F. J. Bergmann
• About the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation - essay by uncredited
• A Remarkable Win - essay by Mark Askwith
• About the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy - essay by uncredited
• Excerpt from Updraft - (2015) - short fiction by Fran Wilde
• About the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award - essay by uncredited
• I Have Read Them All, Now - essay by Michelle West
• About the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award - essay by uncredited
• Damon Knight Grand Master: C. J. Cherryh - essay by Elizabeth R. Wollheim
• Excerpt from Pride of Chanur - (1982) - short fiction by C. J. Cherryh
• Excerpt from Foreigner - (1994) - short fiction by C. J. Cherryh
• Past Nebula Award Winners - essay by uncredited

The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades!

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is Jane Yolen, an author of children's books, fantasy, and science fiction. This year's Nebula Award winners are Charlie Jane Anders, Seanan McGuire, William Ledbetter, Amal El-Mohtar, and Eric Heisserer, with David D. Levine winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.

The latest edition of the very best science fiction and fantasy as selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

The Nebula Awards Showcase is an anthology of the winners and nominees for the SFWA Nebula Awards. The anthology has been published continuously since 1966 and has featured the very best of science fiction and fantasy.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2019) - essay by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ - (2017) - short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
• A Series of Steaks - (2017) - novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• Weaponized Math - (2017) - novelette by Jonathan P. Brazee
• Utopia, LOL? - (2017) - short story by Jamie Wahls
• Fandom for Robots - (2017) - short story by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• All Systems Red - (2017) - novella by Martha Wells
• Wind Will Rove - (2017) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• Dirty Old Town - (2017) - novelette by Richard Bowes
• The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) - (2017) - short story by Matthew Kressel
• Carnival Nine - (2017) - short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time - (2017) - novelette by K. M. Szpara
• Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand - (2017) - short story by Fran Wilde
• A Human Stain - (2017) - novelette by Kelly Robson

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published yearly since 1966, reprinting winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). This year's editor is Nibedita Sen, a Hugo, Nebula, and Astounding Award-nominated writer and editor. This year's Nebula Award winners include Mary Robinette Kowal, Aliette de Bodard, Brooke Bolander, and Phenderson Djèlí Clark.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Nibedita Sen
• "It's Dangerous to Go Alone" - essay by Kate Dollarhyde
• "Into the Spider-verse: A Classic Origin Story in Bold New Color" - essay by Brandon O'Brien
• "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" by P. Djèlí Clark - short story
• "Interview for the End of the World" by Rhett C. Bruno - short story
• "And Yet" by A. T. Greenblatt - short story
• "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" by Alix E. Harrow - short story
• "The Court Magician" by Sarah Pinsker - short story
• "The Only Harmless Great Thing" by Brooke Bolander - novelette
• "The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" by Tina Connolly - novelette
• "An Agent of Utopia" by Andy Duncan - novelette
• "The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Births" by José Pablo Iriarte - novelette
• "The Rule of Three" by Lawrence M. Schoen - novelette
• "Messenger" by R.R. Virdi & Yudhanjaya Wijeratne - novelette
• Novella Excerpt: The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
• Novella Excerpt: Fire Ant by Jonathan P. Brazee
• Novella Excerpt: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
• Novella Excerpt: Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
• Novella Excerpt: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
• Novella Excerpt: Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Novel Excerpt: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Biographies

Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades! The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published yearly since 1966, reprinting winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). This year's editor is New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente, an Andre Norton, Otherwise, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner. This year's Nebula Award winners include Sarah Pinsker, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, and Cat Rambo, among others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Best of Twines, the Worst of Rhymes: A Tale of Two C++ies (or, Why Game Writing Is Bad and Great) - essay by Seth Dickinson
• Queering Chaos - essay by Foz Meadows
• Lois McMaster Bujold and Being a Grand Master - essay by LaShawn M. Wanak
• Give the Family My Love - (2019) - short story by A. T. Greenblatt
• The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power - (2019) - short story by Karen Osborne
• And Now His Lordship Is Laughing - (2019) - short story by Shiv Ramdas
• Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island - (2019) - short story by Nibedita Sen
• A Catalog of Storms - (2019) - short story by Fran Wilde
• How the Trick Is Done - (2019) - novelette by A. C. Wise
• A Strange Uncertain Light - (2019) - novelette by G. V. Anderson
• For He Can Creep - (2019) - novelette by Siobhan Carroll
• His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light - [Majestic Oriental Circus] - (2019) - novelette by Mimi Mondal
• The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye - (2019) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• Carpe Glitter (excerpt) - short story by Cat Rambo
• The Archronology of Love - (2019) - novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
• A Song for a New Day (excerpt) - short story by Sarah Pinsker
• Riverland (excerpt) - short story by Fran Wilde
• Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (excerpt) - short story by Ted Chiang
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (excerpt) - short story by P. Djèlí Clark
• This Is How You Lose the Time War (excerpt) - short story by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water (excerpt) - short story by Vylar Kaftan
• The Deep (excerpt) - short story by Daveed Diggs and William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes and Rivers Solomon
• Catfish Lullaby (excerpt) - short story by A. C. Wise
• Biographies (Nebula Awards Showcase 55) - essay by uncredited
• About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Nebula Awards Showcase 55) - essay by uncredited
• About the Nebula Awards (Nebula Awards Showcase 55) - essay by uncredited