I heard it from a friend whose buddy's sister channels a dead white guy who was actually there. Both coveted and condemned, treasured and scorned, the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Awards have arguably been the centerpiece of the association's emotional life. But there's no getting around the fact that the history of the Nebula Awards is part of the history of our organization, and of three decades of our literature. The Nebulas document changing tastes and growing pains, the passing of scepters and the passing of giants. And we all know there's more to the story than the dignified list of winners presented elsewhere in this issue.
Awards stir our blood.
Even when we're pretending otherwise. The Abstract's database has been updated to include the results of the 1995 season. Also, thanks to a tip from Mark Kelly, the records of the 1975 season have been corrected to include some previously unavailable player rosters from that year's expanded playoff format. Those additions reshuffled the names slightly on several of the following lists. Thanks to ties in 1966 and 1965, respectively, there have been 32 awards each in the Novel and Novella categories.