Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 by Jack Dann (Editor)

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The Barnes & Noble Review
This "cutting edge of right now" collection of Nebula-nominated stories by the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), includes works by Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, and Cory Doctorow.

From the Publisher

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy-Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Publishers Weekly

The Nebula Awards Showcase 2005: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and edited by Jack Dann, presents the usual quality mix of literary SF and fantasy with critical essays. Contributors include Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Moon and Lucius Shepard, who delivers a provocative, witty movie survey. Agent, Eleanor Wood. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Title notwithstanding, a collection of the 2004 Nebula winners, chosen by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Dann brings together two of the winning pieces of short fiction and excerpts from the winning novella (Neil Gaiman's "Coraline") and novel (Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark). The Nebula for short story went to Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See," and the novella winner was Jeffrey Ford's "The Empire of Ice Cream." There is a good selection of the other finalists, including Richard Bowes's "The Mask of the Rex," James Van Pelt's "The Last of the O-Forms," Carol Emshwiller's "Grandma," Molly Gloss's "Lambing Season," Cory Doctorow's "Onzored" and Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That." Also featured are works by the 2005 Author Emeritus, Charles L. Harness ("Quarks at Appomattox"), and the newly elected Grand Master, Robert Silverberg ("Sundance," from 1969), as well as appreciations of those two writers by George Zebrowski and Barry N. Malzberg. The volume attempts to give a broader picture of the current state of SF by including a summary of the year's films, the winners of the Rhysling Award for SF poetry, and provocative essays by participants in several current movements in the field, including "New Weird," "New Space Opera" and the "InterstitialArts Foundation." And in a look back at a seminal force in the history of popular fiction, Barry Malzberg recalls his years working at the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, an experience that Malzberg portrays as verging on surreal. Dann's introduction and story notes are knowledgable, graceful and to the point: here's another for the fan's bookshelf.

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