Nebula Awards Showcase 2006

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2006
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Cover of first edition
Editor Gardner Dozois
Cover artistGinger Legato
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Nebula Awards Showcase
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Roc/New American Library
Publication date
2006
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages372 pp.
ISBN 0-451-46064-2
Preceded by Nebula Awards Showcase 2005  
Followed by Nebula Awards Showcase 2007  

Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Gardner Dozois. It was first published in trade paperback by Roc/New American Library in March 2006, which also issued an ebook edition in July 2009. [1]

Contents

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2005, a profile of 2005 grand master winner Anne McCaffrey and a representative early story by her, various other nonfiction pieces related to the awards, mostly by past Nebula Grand Masters, and the two Rhysling Award-winning poems for 2004, together with an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included, and the best novel is represented by an excerpt.

Contents

Reception

Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times Book Review finds an overall theme of nostalgia in the anthology, observing in it "a parade of inner children, undigested, intact and fully liberated from the authors whose psyches once sheltered them." He sees the Rowe story, which he cites as "the speculative work possessing the year's most striking literary imagery", as metaphorically "an extremely potent representation of the science-fiction and fantasy community's complicated relationship with the idea of nostalgia". He singles out for particular mention the stories by Klages, Sanders, McCaffrey ("[e]very bit as potent as when it first appeared in 1961"), Vinge and Rosenbaum ("[t]he best piece of writing, by light years, in the 'Nebula' collection"). He also notes the "unrepentantly nostalgic essays" of the past grand masters' essays in "The Masters Speak" section. [2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Gary K. Wolfe (2006) in Locus no. 543, April 2006. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ↑ Itzkoff, Dave. "Across the Universe: Nostalgia Trips." Review in The New York Times Book Review , June 11, 2006, p. 22.

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