Nebula Awards Showcase 2013

''Nebula Awards Showcase 2013'' is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Catherine Asaro. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in May 2013.''Kirkus Reviews'' (review)
Apr. 15, 2013.

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 2011 (presented in 2012), as well as the novel that won the Andre Norton Award for that year, an early story by 2011 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award winner Connie Willis, nonfiction pieces related to the awards, and the two Rhysling Award-winning poems for 2011, together with an introduction by the editor. The pieces winning the Best Novel and Andre Norton awards are represented by excerpts. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

*"A Harmony of Thoughts" ntroduction(Catherine Asaro)
*"The Paper Menagerie" est Short Story winner, 2011(Ken Liu)
*"The Ice Owl" est Novella nominee, 2011(Carolyn Ives Gilman)
*"Ado" hort story(Connie Willis)
*"The Migratory Pattern of Dancers" est Novelette nominee, 2011( Katherine Sparrow)
*"Peach-Creamed Honey" hysling Award for Short Poem, 2011(Amal El-Mohtar)
*"The Axiom of Choice" est Short Story nominee, 2011( David W. Goldman)
*"Club Story" ssay(John Clute)
*" What We Found" est Novelette winner, 2011(Geoff Ryman)
*''Among Others'' (excerpt) est Novel winner, 2011(Jo Walton)
*"Movement" est Short Story nominee, 2011(Nancy Fulda)
*"Sauerkraut Station" est Novelette nominee, 2011( Ferrett Steinmetz)
*"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" est Short Story nominee, 2011(E. Lily Yu)
*"Ray of Light" est Novelette nominee, 2011(Brad R. Torgersen)
*''The Freedom Maze'' (excerpt) ndre Norton Award winner, 2011(Delia Sherman)
*"The Sea King's Second Bride" hysling Award for Long Poem, 2011( C. S. E. Cooney)
*"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" est Novella winner, 2011(Kij Johnson)
*"2012 Nebula Awards Winners, Nominees, and Honorees"
*"Past Nebula Awards Winners"
*"About the Cover Artist"
*"About the Editor"

Reception

''Kirkus Reviews'' calls the collection " sential fare for short story aficionados, even though some of the contents have appeared in other collections." It goes on to discuss several of the included pieces briefly, singling out those of Liu, Johnson, Ryman, Willis, and Yu for particular praise.

Ryder Miller in the '' Portland Book Review'' writes that "The Nebula, despite the recent proliferation of new awards, has remained a stalwart guide to what the field aspires to be. One can also get a sense of how the field has changed with recent works veering off into the fantastic in this Showcase." While regretting the dearth of such traditional themes as "interstellar travel, journeys in time and encounters with extraterrestrials ndthe dream of a clear cut divide between good and evil," he notes the emergence in the anthology of "new directions and genre hybrids ndsome interesting literary stories requiring a close or second reading hatseem more appropriate for more mature audiences, but maybe one should not underestimate the young." He notes the presence of " me big names" along with "new writers and disparate voices" and finds some of the pieces "oceanic, rather than cosmic." He concludes that while " e is not likely to enjoy everything, ... there is a fair bit to be impressed by."Miller, Ryder
Review
in the ''Portland Book Review'', May 24, 2013.

The anthology was also reviewed by Wendy Bousfield in ''SFRA Review'' no. 305 Summer 2013, Don Sakers in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', October 2013, and Cherith Baldry in ''Vector'' 274, Winter 2013.

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