Nebulas

The Nebula Awards were set up in the 1960s by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). More recently the SFWA became SFFWA as Fantasy was incorporated. Their annual Nebula Awards volumes, now in their sixth decade, are a must for any collection.

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nebula2012

Nebula Awards Showcase 2012. (ed James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. Pyr, 2012.)

A handsome book with some excellent, average and so-so SF that is going to sit nicely against the 44 previous volumes on my groaning bookshelves.

nebula2011

Nebula Awards Showcase 2011. (ed Kevin J. Anderson, Tor, 2011).

A great book – full of the fiction which the SFWA honoured

nebula2010

Nebula Awards Showcase 2010. (ed Bill Fawcett, Roc 2010).

Even with three of the really good stories of 2007/2008 instead of the three chosen, there wouldn’t be whole lot of bang for your buck if it’s just a read of good SF that you’re after.

nebula2009

Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, ed Ellen Datlow, ROC, 2009

The latest volume in the handsome Nebula Award series is in the extremely capable hands of Ellen Datlow, and a publisher who knows how to present a book to extremely good effect.

nebula2008

Nebula Awards Showcase 2008. ed Ben Bova, ROC, 2008

There’s a lot in here, as usual, with the Kelly story giving lots of SF bang-for-buck : if you haven’t read ‘Burn’ yet, then this is your chance so to do, and get some other high quality reading, and the professional writer’s take on what the 3 years leading up to 2008 meant to them.

nebula2007

Nebula Awards Showcase, ed Mike Resnick, ROC, 2007

A must for anyone seriously into short SF, but if only the SFFWA could tighten up the rules to choose material from a given calendar year, and pick some more Science Fiction!

nebula2006

Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 – edited by Gardner Dozois, Roc, March 2006

As with recent issues, a handsome book to mark the Nebulas, although the stories themselves aren’t going to echo down the SF Hall of Fame in generations to come.

nebula2005

Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 – edited by Jack Dann, Roc, March 2005

Jack Dann picks up the editorial reins from Vonda N. McIntyre in the Nebula Awards Showcase series. There’s a lot of high quality fiction in this volume, and the only real beef is that the stories are from 2002, which means that in a number of cases you are reading stories which appeared in the Year’s Best anthologies two years ago.

nebula2004

Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 – edited by Vonda N. McIntyre, Roc, April 2004

I can recommend this year’s ‘Showcase’ as being chock full of good stuff – a marked improvement over last year’s issue which didn’t have a whole lot of fiction in it to read

nebula2003

Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 – edited by Nancy Kress, Roc, April 2003

A handsome volume, but in terms of capturing the Year’s Best – not a patch on Dozois, Hartwell or Silverberg.