Nebula Awards Showcase 2016
Subtitle: the year's best science fiction and fantasy
By: selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ; edited by Mercedes Lackey
Contributors: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781633881389
Subjects: American Science fiction; American Fantasy fiction
Description: "The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).  The editor, selected by SFWAs anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey.  This years Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff VanderMeer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book."--provided by Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Mercedes Lackey; title: About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America --; title: About the Nebula Awards --; title: 2014 Nebula Awards Final Ballot --; title: Nebula Award Nominees: Best Short Story --; title: A stretch of highway two lanes wide  -- Sarah Pinsker; title: The breath of war  -- Aliette de Bodard; title: The vaporization enthalpy of a peculiar Pakistani family  -- Usman T. Malik; title: The meeker and the all-seeing eye  -- Matthew Kressel; title: When it ends, he catches her  -- Eugie Foster; title: The Fisher Queen  -- Alyssa Wong; title: Nebula Award Winner: Best Short Story --; title: Jackalope wives  -- Ursula Vernon; title: Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novelette --; title: Sleep walking now and then  -- Richard Bowes; title: The devil in America  -- Kai Ashante Wilson; title: The husband stitch  -- Carmen Maria Machado; title: The magician and laplace's demon  -- Tom Crosshill; title: We are the cloud  -- Sam J. Miller; title: Nebula Award Winner: Best Novelette --; title: A guide to the fruits of Hawai'i  -- Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novella; title: Excerpt from Calendrical Regression  -- Lawrence M. Schoen; title: Excerpt from The Mothers of Voorhisville  -- Mary Rickert; title: Excerpt from The Regular  -- Ken Liu; title: Excerpt from Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)  -- Rachel Swirsky; title: Excerpt from We Are All Completely Fine  -- Daryl Gregory; title: Nebula Award Winner: Best Novella  -- Yesterday's Kin / -- Nancy Kress -- Nebular Award Winner: Best Novel / -- Excerpt from Annihilation / -- Jeff VAnderMeer; title: Past Nebula Award Winners --; title: About the editor --; title: About the cover artist.