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Author | edited by Greg Bear |
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Cover artist | John Harris |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Nebula Awards Showcase |
Genre | Science fiction short stories |
Publisher | Pyr |
Publication date
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2015 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 349 pp. |
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OCLC | 907203896 |
Preceded by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 |
Followed by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 |
Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Greg Bear. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in December 2015.
The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2014, as well as the piece that won the Andre Norton Award for that year, a tribute to 2014 grand master winner Samuel R. Delany and a representative early story by him, nonfiction pieces related to the awards, and the three Rhysling Award and Dwarf Stars Award-winning poems for 2013, together with an introduction by the editor. The pieces winning the Best Novel and Andre Norton awards are represented by excerpts; the non-winning pieces nominated for these awards and for Best Novella are omitted.
Kirkus Reviews, calling attention to the typical delay in the anthology's appearance (in 2015, for awards given in 2014 for works published in 2013), opens its analysis with "At last!" and goes on to proclaim it "Not a banner year, all in all, but good enough to delight and entertain." It singles out the Best Short Story winner as "stunning," while describing the other nominees as "more mundane fare" – "[t]he novelettes, mostly, have more substance." Most of the remaining pieces are described without much particular note, aside from the Delany reprint, praised as a "strong contender for Best Title Ever."
Publishers Weekly describes the book as "an attractive snapshot of the many forms of contemporary fantasy and SF ... simultaneously forward-looking and respectful of the genre’s history," while noting that "[a] surprising number of stories have no overt fantastic content," including the Best Short Story winner, characterized as "heartbreakingly poignant." The Delany reprint is described as "groundbreaking."