Nebula Awards 21: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1985

Nebula Awards Showcases #21

by George Zebrowski (Editor)

Contents* ix Introduction (Nebula Awards 21) essay by George Zebrowski* 1 What Was 1985 That We Were Mindful of It? essay by Algis Budrys* 15 Heirs of the Perisphere (1985) shortstory by Howard Waldrop* 35 Out of All Them Bright Stars (1985) shortstory by Nancy Kress* 44 The Fringe [The Mormon Sea] (1985) novelette by Orson Scott Card* 76 Sailing to Byzantium (1985) novella by Robert Silverberg* 153 More Than the Sum of His Parts (1985) shortstory by Joe Haldeman* 176 Portraits of His Children (1985) novelette by George R. R. Martin* 225 For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets (1984) poem by Bruce Boston* 226 Letter from Caroline Herschel (1984) poem by Siv Cedering* 228 The Steam-Powered Word Processor (1986) shortfiction by Arthur C. Clarke* 238 Paper Dragons (1985) novelette by James P. Blaylock* 260 Effing the Ineffable (1987) essay by Gregory Benford* 277 Science Fiction Films of 1985 essay by Bill Warren

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

George Zebrowski was an American science fiction writer and editor who wrote and edited a number of books, and was a former editor of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lived with author Pamela Sargent, with whom he co-wrote a number of novels, including Star Trek novels.
Zebrowski won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1999 for his novel Brute Orbits. Three of his short stories, "Heathen God," "The Eichmann Variations," and "Wound the Wind," were nominated for the Nebula Award, and "The Idea Trap" was nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Reviews

[Olethros]

-Con mucho espacio para lo fantástico.-

Género. Relatos.

Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Premios Nebula 1985 (publicación original: Nebula Awards 21, 1985), con presentación de Miquel Barceló, introducción de George Zebrowski (responsable de la antología), un artículo de Algis Budrys sobre el estado del género (muy centrado en escritores) en 1985 y otro de Bill Warren sobre el cine fantástico de ese mismo año, recopilación de trabajos breves ganadores y finalistas del Nebula pero también otros que, sin serlo, fueron escritos por autores que ganaron algún premio ese año en otra categoría, que nos llevarán a conocer, entre otras cosas, las actitudes frente alienígenas, un escritor que ve a sus personajes, tres robots muy particulares y unos artistas ambulantes en la Utah postapocalíptica.

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[Jonathan]

I was really impressed after the first three stories, thinking "Now this is a good story anthology." The opening short stories by Waldrop, Kress, and Card are all solid and thoughtful. Silverberg's novella continued the quality, though a bit slow to start it proceeded in a manner I hadn't predicted.

Around that point things began to turn a little. Haldeman's story after that was not terrible but unmemorable. Martin's story was unnecessarily obnoxious [purposely misrepresenting the "rape" at the beginning], and while perhaps it had a meaningful insight on the writing process, it was done in a hamfisted way. Clarke's story didn't add anything for me, and Blaylock's was the absolute worst of the whole bunch.

The two essays at the end (Benford's discussion of the alien and Warren's review of scifi films of the year) added nothing.

[Juan Fuentes]

Aunque la edad dorada de la ciencia ficción se suele considerar los años 50, yo prefiero la que se escribió en los 70 y 80, cuando los escritores se empezaron a tomar en serio las historias sin dejar de lado el componente especulativo.

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