Nebula Awards 32

Anthology of science fiction short works
0-15-100306-8OCLC38873209
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813.087608054LC ClassPS648.S3 N38 1998Preceded byNebula Awards 31 Followed byNebula Awards 33 

Nebula Awards 32 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Jack Dann. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace in April 1998.[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1997, a profile of 1997 Grand Master award winner Jack Vance with a representative early story by him, and various other nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with the Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1996 and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included, and one of the novella nominees included was actually for the 1996 award.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Jack Dann)
  • "Keeping Up" [essay] (Elizabeth Hand)
  • "Must Have Been Something I Ate" [essay] (Lucius Shepard)
  • "Interactive Science Fiction: 1996" [essay] (Keith Ferrell)
  • "The British Scene" [essay] (Ian Watson)
  • "The Road to 1996" [essay] (Sean McMullen and Terry Dowling)
  • "Who Is Killing Science Fiction?" [essay] (Norman Spinrad)
  • "Abandoned Cities" [essay] (Robert Frazier)
  • "Must and Shall" [Best Novelette nominee, 1997] (Harry Turtledove)
  • "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" [Best Short Story nominee, 1997] (Dean Wesley Smith)
  • "Da Vinci Rising" [Best Novella winner, 1997] (Jack Dann)
  • "Variants of the Obsolete" [Rhysling Award - Best Long Poem winner, 1996] (Margaret Ballif Simon)
  • "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation" [Rhysling Award - Best Short Poem winner, 1996] (Bruce Boston)
  • "A Birthday" [Best Short Story winner, 1997] (Esther M. Friesner)
  • "The Chronology Protection Case" [Best Novelette nominee, 1997] (Paul Levinson)
  • "Jack Vance: Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy" [essay] (Robert Silverberg)
  • "My Friend Jack" [essay] (Terry Dowling)
  • "The Men Return' [short story] (Jack Vance)
  • "Yaguara" [Best Novella nominee, 1996] (Nicola Griffith)
  • "Science Fiction Films of 1996" [essay] (Bill Warren)
  • "Five Fucks" [Best Short Story nominee, 1997] (Jonathan Lethem)
  • "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" [Best Novelette winner, 1997] (Bruce Holland Rogers)
  • "Selected Titles from the 1996 Preliminary Nebula Ballot" (uncredited)
  • "Past Nebula Award Winners" (uncredited)
  • "About the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America" (uncredited)

Reception

Kirkus Reviews calls the anthology one to "read [and] enjoy. Just don't mention 'franchising' if Norman Spinrad's within earshot." (His piece "gets hissy about authors who rent out their creations.") The fictional offerings are briefly noted, with most comment reserved for the essays; Warren "heroically watched all the year's movies," Shepard "gloomily records the death of literary science fiction," and Hand "growls that fiction itself has become 'a barrio of the entertainment industry.'"[2]

The collection was also reviewed by Faren Miller and Gary K. Wolfe in Locus no. 447, April 1998, Brian Stableford in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1998, and David A. Truesdale in SF Site, June 1998.[1]

Awards

The anthology placed ninth in the 1999 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Nebula Awards 32 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ Review in Kirkus Reviews, Mar. 1, 1998.
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  1. Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) (Damon Knight)
  2. Nebula Award Stories Two (1967) (Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison)
  3. Nebula Award Stories 3 (1968) (Roger Zelazny)
  4. Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) (Poul Anderson)
  5. Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) (James Blish)
  6. Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971) (Clifford D. Simak)
  7. Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972) (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
  8. Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973) (Isaac Asimov)
  9. Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974) (Kate Wilhelm)
  10. Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) (James E. Gunn)
  11. Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  12. Nebula Winners Twelve (1978) (Gordon R. Dickson)
  13. Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) (Samuel R. Delany)
  14. Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) (Frederik Pohl)
  15. Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) (Frank Herbert)
  16. Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) (Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr)
  17. Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983) (Joe Haldeman)
  18. The Nebula Awards #18 (1983) (Robert Silverberg)
  19. The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) (Marta Randall)
  20. Nebula Awards 20 (1985) (George Zebrowski)
  21. Nebula Awards 21 (1986) (George Zebrowski)
  22. Nebula Awards 22 (1988) (George Zebrowski)
  23. Nebula Awards 23 (1989) (Michael Bishop)
  24. Nebula Awards 24 (1990) (Michael Bishop)
  25. Nebula Awards 25 (1991) (Michael Bishop)
  26. Nebula Awards 26 (1992) (James Morrow)
  27. Nebula Awards 27 (1993) (James Morrow)
  28. Nebula Awards 28 (1994) (James Morrow)
  29. Nebula Awards 29 (1995) (Pamela Sargent)
  30. Nebula Awards 30 (1996) (Pamela Sargent)
  31. Nebula Awards 31 (1997) (Pamela Sargent)
  32. Nebula Awards 32 (1998) (Jack Dann)
  33. Nebula Awards 33 (1999) (Connie Willis)
  34. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) (Gregory Benford)
  35. Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001) (Robert Silverberg)
  36. Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
  37. Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) (Nancy Kress)
  38. Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) (Vonda N. McIntyre)
  39. Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) (Jack Dann)
  40. Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006) (Gardner Dozois)
  41. Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) (Mike Resnick)
  42. Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) (Ben Bova)
  43. Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (2009) (Ellen Datlow)
  44. Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) (Bill Fawcett)
  45. The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) (Kevin J. Anderson)
  46. Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) (James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel)
  47. Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
  48. Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014) (Kij Johnson)
  49. Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2015) (Greg Bear)
  50. Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) (Mercedes Lackey)
  51. Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) (Julie E. Czerneda)
  52. Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) (Jane Yolen)
  53. Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019) (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
  54. Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
  55. Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)