[close] Excellent in all departments (Kirkus Reviews), Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-of-the-year anthologies.

* Understanding Entropy • (1994) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
* The Matter of Seggri • (1994) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
* The Martian Child • (1994) • novelette by David Gerrold
* Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge • [Birthright Universe] • (1994) • novella by Mike Resnick
* None So Blind • (1994) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
* I Know What You're Thinking • (1994) • shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
* Fortyday • (1994) • shortstory by Damon Knight
* Virtual Love • (1994) • shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
* Inspiration • (1994) • shortstory by Ben Bova
* A Defense of the Social Contracts • (1993) • shortstory by Martha Soukup [close]