The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF Author:Kevin J. Anderson (Editor) With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology. This is the very best short SF fiction of any given year as recommended and nominated by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America: the best novella, novelette and short story. Here you will find the cream of... more » the crop of science fiction and fantasy - startling ideas, the intricate construction of new worlds and mind-bending experimental writing. This anthology includes not only the Nebula Award-winning works in each short-form category, but also all the nominees in the novelette and short story categories. Here you will find colourful fantasy, outstanding speculative fiction, steampunk, edgy writing on the fringes of the mainstream and uncompromisingly hard SF in stories set in the distant past, an off-kilter present day, the far future or sometimes in between.
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".
Content:
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 [Mariska Volochkova] (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 [Dust Devil] (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 • essay by Mark Kreighbaum
Appreciation (2010) • essay by Connie Willis
A !Tangled Web (1981) / novelette by Joe Haldeman
The Women of Nell Gwynne's [Nell Gwynne's • 1] (2009) / novella by Kage Baker
Song for an Ancient City (2008) / poem by Amal El-Mohtar