Nebula Awards Showcase 2010
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 0451463161
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re-define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection.
This year's compilation includes stories by:
?Ursula K. LeGuin
?Catherine Asaro
?John Kessel
?Nina Kiriki Hoffman
?Harry Harrison, this year's Grandmaster
Author Emerita award this year went to M.J. Engh. Mary Jane Engh has written such notable books as Arsian and Wheel of the Winds . She has been publishing science fiction since 1964. While being honored as writer emerita, she plans to continue crafting amazing novels. Here is a short story she wrote in 1995. I'll get back to the subject in a minute, but first let's talk about fangs. You've seen these vampire movies? With the vampires dislocating their jaws to show their pointy canines? I think
even appearing to be yawning, clearly revealing the double row of sharp teeth and the purple-black throat. The mouths impressed Garth as to the seriousness of the meeting: this was the one Wesker expression he had learned to recognise. An open mouth indicated some strong emotion; happiness, sadness, anger, he could never be really sure which. The Weskers were normally placid and he had never seen enough open mouths to tell what was causing them. But he was surrounded by them now. "Will you help
Best Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert Best Novella: The Saliva Tree by Brain W. Aldiss Best Novelette: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny Best Short Story: " 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (These pages constitute an extension of the copyright page: ) Introduction by Bill Fawcett. Copyright (c) 2010 by Bill Fawcett. Published here for the first time in any form by permission of the author. "Early SF in the Pulp Magazines" by Robert
two years and senators for six. I could tell Barna of these different policies, and he listened with interest, and added elements from them to his plans for the ultimate government of the Free State in the forest. Such plans were his favorite topic when he was in his good mood. When the bickering and brawling and backbiting and the innumerable, interminable details of provisioning and guard duty and building and everything else that he took responsibility for wore him out and put him in a darker
new magazines Galaxy and F&SF were among those that lasted, their editors did not; Anthony Boucher had resigned his editorial post in 1958; Horace Gold's continuing medical problems forced him to step down a year later. Without those two pivotal figures, and with Campbell increasingly remote and problematical, the spark seemed to go out of the science-fiction field, and the fireworks and grand visionary dreams of 1951 and 1952 and 1953 gave way to the dull and gray late-fifties doldrums of