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Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
Catherine Asaro
390 pp • ISBN 978-1-61614-783-9
Paperback • $22.00
May 2013
Cover illustration © Julie Dillon
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America®. The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is two-time Nebula winner, Catherine Asaro.
This year's volume includes stories and excerpts by Connie Willis, Jo Walton,
Kij Johnson, Geoff Ryman, John Clute, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Ferrett Steinmetz, Ken Liu, Nancy Fulda, Delia Sherman, Amal El-Mohtar, C. S. E. Cooney, David Goldman, Katherine Sparrow, E. Lily Yu, and Brad R. Torgersen.
Reviews
Praise for Nebula Awards Showcase 2013:
"Featuring writing of the highest quality in the genre, this compilation is certain to appeal to those demanding imaginative fiction."
- Booklist
"Essential fare for short story aficionados, even though some of the contents have appeared in other collections."
- Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Nebula Awards Showcase 2012:
"From the cover by Nebula-winning artist Michael Whelan to the very last page, this remarkable anthology is filled with the very best of the SF and fantasy published in 2010.... All the inclusions are outstanding works of fiction."
- Publishers Weekly starred review
"Attesting to the high quality of contemporary imaginative fiction, this is an important tool for readers' advisory, collection development, and expanding readers' sf and fantasy horizons."
- Library Journal
"[A]n impressively diverse collection...You want the best of the best new science fiction and fantasy? It's right here."
-Explorations: the Barnes and Noble SciFi and Fantasy blog
"...if [this] represents the genre as it stands today, the future has never been brighter....these stories are singularly brilliant and immensely creative."
- San Francisco Book Review
Catherine Asaro
Editor Catherine Asaro is a two-time Nebula Award winner and
bestselling novelist of more than twenty-five books, as well
as a dancer, teacher, and musician. She is a multiple winner
of the Readers' Choice Award from Analog magazine and a
three-time recipient of the RT BOOKClub Award for Best Science
Fiction Novel. Her soundtrack Diamond Star, for her novel of the
same name, is performed with the rock band Point Valid. She
is a theoretical physicist with a PhD from Harvard and teaches
part-time at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Visit her at www.facebook.com/Catherine.Asaro
Author Photograph © David Bartell
