Nebula Award Stories Sixteen

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Nebula Award Stories Sixteen
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First edition (US)
Authoredited by Jerry Pournelle and John F. Carr
Cover artistLucy Castelluccio
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Nebula Awards
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1982 (US)
W. H. Allen 1983 (UK)
Media typePrint (hardcover, paperback)
Pages286
ISBN 0-03-059787-0
Preceded by Nebula Winners Fifteen  
Followed by Nebula Award Stories Seventeen  

Nebula Award Stories Sixteen is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Jerry Pournelle and John F. Carr. It was first published in hardcover by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in August 1982; a paperback edition was issued by Bantam Books in September 1983. British editions were issued by W. H. Allen (hardcover) and Star (paperback) in 1983; the latter under the variant title Nebula Winners Sixteen. [1]

Contents

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1981 and a few other pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by Pournelle and appendices. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

Reception

Publishers Weekly calls the volume "a valuable as well as an enjoyable book," singling out the Charnas ("calmly realistic and riveting"), Waldrop ("delightful") and Simak pieces for comment, while assessing those of Grant, Swanwick and Dick as "[g]ood work." The nonfiction pieces are called "useful," providing "[v]ariety and balance." [2]

School Library Journal found the quality of the anthology's stories and essays "uneven," but noted that "[l]ibraries aiming for comprehensive science-fiction coverage will want [it] regardless." The films review and retrospective listings of Nebula and Hugo winners were rated "[a]mong the assets" of the book. [3]

The anthology was also reviewed by Susan L. Nickerson in Library Journal v. 107, Aug. 1, 1982, and Steven Lehman in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review no. 11, January/February 1983. [1]

Awards

The book placed eleventh in the 1983 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Nebula Award Stories Sixteen title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Review in Publishers Weekly v. 221, iss. 25, June 18, 1982, p. 65.
  3. Review in School Library Journal v. 28, iss. 10, August 1982, p. 136.

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