Nebula Award Stories 1965
Nebula Award Stories 1965 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Damon Knight. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1966, with a Science Fiction Book Club edition following in October of the same year. The first British edition was published by Gollancz in 1967. Paperback editions followed from Pocket Books in the U.S. in November 1967 (reprinted in October 1968 and December 1969), and New English Library in the U.K. in April 1969. The U.K. and paperback editions bore the variant title "Nebula Award Stories 1". The book was more  recently reissued by Stealth Press in hardcover in February 2001. It has also been published in German. Summary. The book collects pieces published in 1965 that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1966, together with an introduction by the editor. Not all non-winning pieces nominated for the awards were included. Reception. P. Schuyler Miller, reviewing the anthology for "Analog", took a clinical approach, discussing the founding of the sponsoring organization, its institution of the Nebula Awards and the first awards themselves before proceeding to the book (already projected  as the "first in a series of annual anthologies") and its contents. Without evaluating the book as a whole, he reviews the pieces included separately by the categories in which they were nominated, making note of those that first appeared in "Analog". Of the co-winning novellas, he calls the Aldiss story "something of a stunt," but feels Zelazny's "He Who Shapes" "has a good deal more meat in it," approving its treatment of character. He finds the same author's winning novelette, "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" "a forceful story." In the category  of best short story he prefers Schmitz's, which "has his unique flavor" to Ellison's winning piece, while stating "I can't complain, since I didn't vote." Of the remaining runners-up, he characterizes Niven's as "a scientific problem story," Dickson's as a "black comedy" and Ballard's as "one of his strangest stories." The book was also reviewed by Judith Merril in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" v. 32, no. 1, January 1967, Tony Sudbery in "Vector" 45, July 1967, and (retrospectively) by Jonathan Strahan in "Locus" #486, July 2001, Don D'Ammassa in "Science  Fiction Chronicle" #214, July 2001, and Paul Levinson in "The New York Review of Science Fiction" no. 165, May 2002.