Author | edited by Ellen Datlow |
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Cover artist | Ray Lundgren |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Nebula Awards Showcase |
Genre | Science fiction short stories |
Publisher | Roc/New American Library |
Publication date | 2009 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | vii, 436 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0-451-46255-8 |
Preceded by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 |
Followed by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 |
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Ellen Datlow. It was first published in trade paperback by Roc/New American Library in April 2009. [1]
The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the 2008 Nebula Award for novel, novella, novelette, short story and script, a profiles of 2008 Grand Master winner Michael Moorcock and Author Emeritus Ardath Mayhar, and a representative early story by the former, and the three Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Award-winning poems for 2007, together with various other nonfiction pieces and bibliographical material related to the awards and an introduction by the editor. The Best Novel winner is represented by an excerpt. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.
Paul Kincaid, writing for the SF Site, finds "an uneasy awareness" in the anthology of the Nebula Awards' "shift in focus" since the Science Fiction Writers of America became the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. After exploring how the various pieces in it straddle or stretch the genres of science fiction and fantasy, he concludes "maybe this eliding of genre boundaries is no bad thing. ... Maybe all we are seeing here is a necessary breaking down of artificial divisions in fiction, writers more freely exploring what the fantastic in its broadest terms allows them to. Whatever, this latest volume in a very long-running series, continues to mark not just the best of the genre at one particular moment, but also, perhaps, the direction in which the genre is moving." The contributions by Chiang, Fowler, Duncan, Johnson, Shepard, Kress, Pelland and Levine are all discussed in some depth. [2]
The anthology was also reviewed by Norman L. Rubenstein in Cemetery Dance no. 63, 2010. [1]
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