Nebula Awards 29

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Nebula Awards 29
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Cover of first edition
Authoredited by Pamela Sargent
Cover artistSteven Cooley
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Nebula Awards
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Harcourt Brace
Publication date
1995
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pagesxii, 307 pp.
ISBN 0-15-100107-3
Preceded by Nebula Awards 28  
Followed by Nebula Awards 30  

Nebula Awards 29 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Pamela Sargent, the first of three successive volumes under her editorship. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace in April 1995. [1]

Contents

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 1994 and various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with the Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1993 and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

Reception

Maria Simson in Publishers Weekly rates the anthology "excellent ... cover[ing] a broad range of styles, treatments and subjects. Selected SF authors, in short essays, bemoan the state of the genre, yet these stories and novellas (and even a poem or two) give the lie to any pessimism." She calls it "Essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction, this collection goes a long way toward demonstrating that, now and then, those who engage in the sometimes thankless task of bestowing writing awards really do know how to pick winners." The pieces by Willis, Sheffield and Cady are singled out for particular comment, as are the tributes to Davidson, del Rey and Oliver. [2]

Carl Hays in Booklist notes that "Nebula award winners perennially represent the best state-of-the-art imaginative fiction, and 1994's are not exceptions. Editor Sargent provides a superlative showcase for the recipients and several runners-up by interspersing among them biographical sketches, overviews of sf films and poetry, and short essays by sf veterans appraising the year's creative highlights." He observes that "[a]lthough several of the pieces collected here appear in other year's-best anthologies, the Nebula gathering is, like its predecessors, an indispensable representation of the genre's best recent writing and a reliable indicator of its leading edge." He singles out the pieces by Haldeman, Sheffield and Cady for particular comment, as well as the excerpt from Robinson's novel. [3]

Barbara Hawkins, assessing the book for younger readers in School Library Journal , calls it a "well-crafted collection" in which a "variety of styles and themes awaits readers," summing it up as "[a]ll told, a bountiful excursion for Y[oung] A[dult] minds." She singles out the Haldeman, Cady, Sheffield and Chambers pieces for comment. [4]

The anthology was also reviewed by Gary K. Wolfe in Locus no. 411, April 1995 and Gary Reger in The New York Review of Science Fiction , September 1995. [1]

Awards

The book placed tenth in the 1996 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Nebula Awards 29 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ↑ Simson, Maria. Review in Publishers Weekly v. 242, iss. 10, March 6, 1995, p. 66.
  3. ↑ Hays, Carl. Review in Booklist v. 91, iss. 16, April 15, 1995, p. 1484.
  4. ↑ Hawkins, Barbara. Review in School Library Journal v. 41, iss. 10, October 1995, p. 170.

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