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Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 : the year's best science fiction and fantasy / selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ; edited by Mercedes Lackey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst, New York : Pyr, an Imprint of Prometheus Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 412 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781633881389
  • 1633881385
Other title:
  • Year's best science fiction and fantasy
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction / Mercedes Lackey -- About the science fiction and fantasy writers of America -- About the Nebula Awards -- 2014 Nebula Awards final ballot -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Short Story: -- Stretch of highway two lanes wide / Sarah Pinsker -- Breath of war / Aliette de Bodard -- Vaporization enthalpy of a peculiar Pakistani family / Usman T Malik -- Meeker and the all-seeing eye / Matthew Kressel -- When it ends, he catches her / Eugie Foster -- Fisher Queen / Alyssa Wong -- Nebula Award Winner: Best Short Story: -- Jackalope wives / Ursula Vernon -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novelette: -- Sleep walking now and then / Richard Bowes -- Devil in America / Kai Ashante Wilson -- Husband stitch / Carmen Maria Machado -- Magician and laplace's demon / Tom Crosshill -- We are the cloud / Sam J Miller -- Nebula Award Winner: Best Novelette: -- Guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novella: -- Calendrical regression (excerpt from) / Lawrence M Schoen -- Mothers of Voorhisville (excerpt from) / Mary Rickert -- Regular (excerpt from) / Ken Liu -- Grand Jete (excerpt from) (The Great Leap) / Rachel Swirsky -- We are all completely fine (excerpt from) / Daryl Gregory -- Nebula Award Winner: Best Novella: -- Yesterday's kin / Nancy Kress -- Nebular Award Winner: Best Novel: -- Annihilation (excerpt from) / Jeff Vander Meer -- Past Nebula Award Winners -- About the editor -- About the cover artist.
Summary: Overview: The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This year's Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff Vander Meer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Lackey, Mercedes Available 33111008407427
Total holds: 0

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The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This year's Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff VanderMeer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.

Introduction / Mercedes Lackey -- About the science fiction and fantasy writers of America -- About the Nebula Awards -- 2014 Nebula Awards final ballot -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Short Story: -- Stretch of highway two lanes wide / Sarah Pinsker -- Breath of war / Aliette de Bodard -- Vaporization enthalpy of a peculiar Pakistani family / Usman T Malik -- Meeker and the all-seeing eye / Matthew Kressel -- When it ends, he catches her / Eugie Foster -- Fisher Queen / Alyssa Wong -- Nebula Award Winner: Best Short Story: -- Jackalope wives / Ursula Vernon -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novelette: -- Sleep walking now and then / Richard Bowes -- Devil in America / Kai Ashante Wilson -- Husband stitch / Carmen Maria Machado -- Magician and laplace's demon / Tom Crosshill -- We are the cloud / Sam J Miller -- Nebula Award Winner: Best Novelette: -- Guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novella: -- Calendrical regression (excerpt from) / Lawrence M Schoen -- Mothers of Voorhisville (excerpt from) / Mary Rickert -- Regular (excerpt from) / Ken Liu -- Grand Jete (excerpt from) (The Great Leap) / Rachel Swirsky -- We are all completely fine (excerpt from) / Daryl Gregory -- Nebula Award Winner: Best Novella: -- Yesterday's kin / Nancy Kress -- Nebular Award Winner: Best Novel: -- Annihilation (excerpt from) / Jeff Vander Meer -- Past Nebula Award Winners -- About the editor -- About the cover artist.

Overview: The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This year's Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff Vander Meer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.

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