Nebula Awards Showcase 55 ed Catherynne M. Valente (SFWA 2021)
A handsome book, my copy printed over here in the UK by Amazon. I’d like
Nebula Awards Showcase 54 ed Nibedita Send (SFWA 2020)
The annual Nebula anthology had four different publishers in the last five years, and this
Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (ed Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Parvus Press 2019)
Shelved with the now-usual nostalgic sigh for when these volumes where choc full of great SF..
Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (ed Jane Yolen, Pyr 2018)
Not that much in terms of a coverage of the best SF in short form. Onto the shelves with the volume.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (ed Julie E. Czerneda, Pyr 2017)
All the short story nominees, just the winners in the novella and novelette categories, so not a heap of short SF by any means.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (ed Mercedes Lackey, Pyr 2016)
Succeeds in presenting what the members of SFFWA voted for in their ballot for the best science fiction and fantasy of the year in question.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (ed Greg Bear, Pyr 2015)
Another excellent anthology, full of top quality SFF…
Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (ed Kij Johnson, Pyr 2014)
The three short SFF winners, two runners-up, a Gene Wolfe story, and two stories masquerading as poetry.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013. (ed Catherine Asaro, Pyr 2013)
With a lovely cover design by Grace M. Conti-Zilsberger, and illustration by Julie Dillon, this fat beauty has a lot of excellent fiction. And poems. And non-fiction.
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.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011. (ed Kevin J. Anderson, Tor, 2011).
A great book – full of the fiction which the SFWA honoured
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 – edited by Kim Stanley Robinson, Roc, April 2002
A nice volume to own – make sure that the nice white cover doesn’t get dirty though!
Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 – edited by Robert Silverberg, Harcourt 2001
All in all, and excellent volume – one which I would be happy to give to anyone who is sniffy about SF, confident that there is a lot of mature, high quality (science) fiction therein.
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000. ed. Gregory Benford
Stories by : Bruce Holland Rogers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Jane Yolen, Mark J. McGarry, Sheila Finch, Walter Jon Williams.
Nebula Award Stories 33. ed. Connie Willis. Harvest, 1999
Stories by : Jane Yolen, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Gregory Feeley, Nelson Bond, James Alan Gardner, Michael Swanwick, Karen Joy Fowler, Jerry Oltion.
Nebula Award Stories 32. ed. Jack Dann. Harvest, 1998
Stories by : Harry Turtledove, Dean Wesley Smith, Jack Dann, Esther M. Friesner, Paul Levinson, Nicola Griffith, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Holland Rogers.
Nebula Award Stories 31. ed. Pamela Sargent
Stories by : Dale Bailey, Elizabeth Hand, Esther M. Friesner, James Patrick Kelly, Kelley Eskridge, Lisa Goldstein, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert A Sawyer, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nebula Award Stories 30. ed. Pamela Sargent. Harvest, 1996
Barry Malzberg, Ben Bova, Damon Knight, David Gerrold, Joe Haldeman, Kate Wilhelm, Martha Soukoup, Mike Resnick, Ursula K. Le Guin
Nebula Award Stories 29. ed. Pamela Sargent. Harcourt, 1995
Stories by : Connie Willis, Harlan Ellison, Jack Cady, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Terry Bisson, Charles Shieffield, Lisa Goldstein
Nebula Awards 28. ed James Morrow, Harvest 1994.
Stories by : Connie Willis, Gregory Benford, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, Paul Di Filippo, S.N. Dyer
Nebula Awards 27 – edited by James Morrow, pub Harcourt Brace, 1993
Stories by : Alan Brennert, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Karen Joy Fowler, Mike Conner, Nancy Kress, Susan Shwartz, Terry Bisson, W. Gregory Stewart
Nebula Award Stories 26. ed. James Morrow. Harcourt, 1992
Stories by : Dafydd ab Hugh, Ian MacLeod, Joe Haldeman, Karen Joy Fowler, Martha Soukoup, Pat Murphy, Ted Chiang, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nebula Award Stories 25. ed. Michael Bishop. Harcourt, 1991
Stories by : Connie Willis, John Crowley, Michael Bishop, Mike Resnick, Orson Scott Card, Richard Grant, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gardner Dozois, Lois McMaster Bujold
Nebula Awards 24 – edited by Michael Bishop, pub Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
Stories by : Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe., George Alec Effinger, Jack McDevitt, James Morrow, Neal Barrett Jr
Nebula Awards 23 – edited by Michael Bishop, pub Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989
A strong selection of stories. Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Gregory Benford, James Morrow, John Kessel, Kate Wilhelm, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, Pat Murphy, Walter Jon Williams
Nebula Awards 22 – edited by George Zebrowski, pub Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988
A strong selection of stories, which stand up well some 20 years on. Stories by : Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Isaac Asimov, Judith Moffett, Kate Wilhelm, Lucius Shepard, Orson Scott Card, Suzy McKee Charnas.
Nebula Award Stories 21. ed. George Zebrowski
Stories by : George R. R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, James P Blaylock, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg.
Nebula Awards 19. edited by Marta Randall.
Stories by Greg Bear, Gardner Dozois, Ian Watson, and Robert Silverberg.
Nebula Awards 20. (ed George Zebrowski, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985).
So, my collection of Nebula anthologies is completed in mid-August 2011 (ignore the date of
Nebula Award Stories 18. ed. Robert Silverberg
Stories by : Barry N. Malzberg, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Joanna Russ, John Kessel, Robert Silverberg, William Gibson.
Nebula Awards 17. ed Joe Haldeman.
Stories by : Kim Stanley Robinson, George Florance-Guthridge, Jack Dann, William Gibson, Timothy Robert Sullivan
Poul Anderson, Gardner Dozois, Michael Bishop, John Varley.
Nebula Award Stories 16. ed. Jerry Pournelle
Stories by : Charles L. Grant, Clifford D Simak, Howard Waldrop, Michael Swanwick, Philip K. Dick, Suzy McKee Charnas.
Nebula Award Stories 15. ed. Frank Herbert
Stories by : Barry B. Longyear, Edward Bryant, George R. R. Martin, Jack Dann, Vonda N. McIntyre
Nebula Awards 14. ed. Frederik Pohl
Stories by : C J Cherryh, Charles L. Grant, Edward Bryant, Gene Wolfe, John Varley.
Nebula Awards 13. ed. Samuel R. Delany
Stories by : Edward Bryant, Harlan Ellison, Raccoona Sheldon, Spider and Jeanne Robinson., Vonda N McIntyre.
Nebula Winners 12, edited by Gordon R. Dickson.
Stories by Charles L. Grant, Thomas F. Monteleone, John Varley, Isaac Asimov, James Tiptree Jr. (Contents Only.)
Nebula Award Stories 11. ed. Ursula K. Le Guin
Stories by : Craig Strete, Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, Joe Haldeman, P.J. Plauger, Roger Zelazny, Tom Reamy
Nebula Award Stories 10. ed. James Gunn
Stories by : C L Grant, Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Scholes, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Tom Reamy, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nebula Award Stories 9 ed. Kate Wilhelm
Stories by : Carol Emshwiller, Edward Bryant, Gene Wolfe, George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, James Tiptree Jr, Norman Spinrad, Vonda N. McIntyre.
Nebula Award Stories 8. ed. Isaac Asimov
Stories by : Arthur C Clarke, Fredrik Pohl, Gene Wolfe., Harlan Ellison, Joanna Russ, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, William Rostler.
Nebula Award Stories 7. ed. Lloyd Biggle Jr
Stories by : Doris Pitkin Buck, Edgar Pangborn, Gardner R Dozois, George Zebrowski, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm, Katherine Maclean, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Goldin.
Nebula Award Stories 6. ed. Clifford D. Simak.
Stories by : Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe., Harry Harrison, Joanna Russ, Keither Laumer, R.A. Lafferty, Theodore Sturgeon.
Nebula Award Stories 5. ed. James Blish. 1970.
Stories by : Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R Delany, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nebula Award Stories 4. ed. Poul Anderson. 1969
Stories by : Anne McCaffrey, H H Hollis, James E Gunn, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Terry Carr
Nebula Award Stories 3. ed. Roger Zelazny. 1968
Stories by : Anne McCaffrey, Fritz Leiber, Gary Wright, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Samuel R Delany.
Nebula Award Stories 2 – edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison. 1967
Eleven uniformly excellent stories, covering most topics you might expect to see : time travel, far future, virtual reality, New Wave, and fantasy. What is perhaps of note is the lack of ‘hard SF’, and the extent to which so many of the stories are fundamentally about humanity, about people.
Nebula Award Stories 1. ed. Damon Knight. 1966
The first in a l-o-n-g running series.