Slowly, with the New Year, Nebula Awards Showcase gas begun to materialize. The $4.99 ebook is now available at Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and Kobo outlets. As it trickles out from other retailers, this space will be updated.
Coming to an Online Store Near You! The much-delayed Nebula Awards Showcase 56, containing a selection of Nebula Award winners and nominees presented in 2021, will be on sale at Amazon and Bookshop.org before the end of the year. This release is a continuation of the longest-running continuous series of Best-of anthologies in speculative fiction, begun with the publication of Nebula Awards Stories in 1966. With an introduction by past SFWA President Cat Rambo, this volume represents a change in strategy for the organization that will result in a speed-up of our processes. This and future volumes will be edited by SFWA’s own Publications Committee. These new volumes will be jam-packed with the best stories of the year as chosen by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association with fewer excepts and no filler.
Here’s the table of contents for Nebula Awards Showcase 56:
INTRODUCTION by Cat Rambo
PART ONE ESSAY
CERBERUS IS THE FAMILY DOG: ADAPTING GREEK MYTH IN HADES by Greg Kasavin
THE GOOD PLACE: LIFE, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING by Kelly Robson
PART TWO SHORT STORY
ADVANCED WORD PROBLEMS IN PORTAL MATH by Aimee Picchi
BADASS MOMS OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE by Rae Carson
THE EIGHT-THOUSANDERS by Jason Sanford
A GUIDE FOR WORKING BREEDS by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
MY COUNTRY IS A GHOST by Eugenia Triantafyllou
OPEN HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL by John Wiswell (Nebula Winner: Best Short Story)
PART THREE NOVELETTE
BURN OR THE EPISODIC LIFE OF SAM WELLS AS A SUPER by A. T. Greenblatt
THE PILL by Meg Elison
SHADOW PRISONS by Caroline M. Yoachim
STEPSISTER by Leah Cypess
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE by Sarah Pinsker (Nebula Winner: Best Novelette)
WHERE YOU LINGER by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
PART FOUR NOVELLA (Excerpts)
FINNA by Nino Cipri
THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R.B. Lemberg
IFE-IYOKU, THE TALE OF IMADEYUNUAGBON by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark (Nebula Winner: Best Novella)
RIOT BABY by Tochi Onyebuchi
TOWER OF MUD AND STRAW by Yaroslav Barsukov
PART FIVE NOVEL (Excerpt)
NETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells (Nebula Winner: Best Novel)
PART SIX MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION (Excerpt)
A WIZARD’S GUIDE TO DEFENSIVE BAKING by T. Kingfisher (Winner: Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction)
Contributor Biographies
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Nebula Awards Showcase 54
Edited by Nibedita Sen
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America!
The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades! The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published yearly since 1966, reprinting winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). This year’s editor is Nibedita Sen, a Hugo, Nebula, and Astounding Award-nominated writer and editor. This year’s Nebula Award winners include Mary Robinette Kowal, Aliette de Bodard, Brooke Bolander, and Phenderson Djèlí Clark.
Mary Robinette Kowal
Aliette de Bodard
Brooke Bolander
Phenderson Djèlí Clark
José Pablo Iriarte
Lawrence M. Schoen
Andy Duncan
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi
Tina Connolly
Alix E. Harrow
Sarah Pinsker
A. T. Greenblatt
Introduction by Nibedita Sen
“It’s Dangerous to Go Alone” by Kate Dollarhyde
“Into the Spider-verse: A Classic Origin Story in Bold New Color” by Brandon O’Brien
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” by P. Djèlí Clark
“Interview for the End of the World” by Rhett C. Bruno
“And Yet” by A. T. Greenblatt
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow
“The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker
“The Only Harmless Great Thing” by Brooke Bolander
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly
“An Agent of Utopia” by Andy Duncan
“The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Births” by José Pablo Iriarte
“The Rule of Three” by Lawrence M. Schoen
“Messenger” by R.R. Virdi & Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Excerpt: “The Tea Master and the Detective” by Aliette de Bodard
Excerpt: “Fire Ant” by Jonathan P. Brazee
Excerpt: “The Black God’s Drums” by P. Djèlí Clark
Excerpt: “Alice Payne Arrives” by Kate Heartfield
Excerpt: “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach” by Kelly Robson
Excerpt: “Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells
Excerpt: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Biographies