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Nebula Awards Showcases #36
Nebula Awards Showcase 2002
This satisfying annual compilation contains fiction and commentary selected by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Picked by their peers, the writers represented herein represent a fine diversity of talent. Contributors include Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, Eleanor Arnason, Linda Nagat, Gardner Dozois, Damon Knight, and Nalo Hopkinson.
Contents
1 • Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2002) • essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
20 • Philip Jose Farmer: An Appreciation • essay by Robert Silverberg
25 • Robert Sheckley: An Appreciation • essay by David G. Hartwell
29 • Daddy's World • (1999) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
60 • Darwin's Radio (excerpt) • shortfiction by Greg Bear
97 • macs • (1999) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
107 • Stellar Harvest • [Lydia Duluth] • (1999) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
150 • Goddesses • (2000) • novella by Linda Nagata
239 • Commentary: Science Fiction and the World • essay by Ken MacLeod and Nalo Hopkinson and Paul J. McAuley and John Clute and Kathleen Ann Goonan and Gene Wolfe and Damon Knight and Andy Duncan and Gwyneth Jones [as by Gwyneth Jones and Andy Duncan and Damon Knight and Gene Wolfe and Kathleen Ann Goonan and Ken MacLeod and Paul McAuley and Nalo Hopkinson and John Clute ]
255 • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows • (1999) • novelette by Gardner Dozois
Contents
1 • Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2002) • essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
20 • Philip Jose Farmer: An Appreciation • essay by Robert Silverberg
25 • Robert Sheckley: An Appreciation • essay by David G. Hartwell
29 • Daddy's World • (1999) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
60 • Darwin's Radio (excerpt) • shortfiction by Greg Bear
97 • macs • (1999) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
107 • Stellar Harvest • [Lydia Duluth] • (1999) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
150 • Goddesses • (2000) • novella by Linda Nagata
239 • Commentary: Science Fiction and the World • essay by Ken MacLeod and Nalo Hopkinson and Paul J. McAuley and John Clute and Kathleen Ann Goonan and Gene Wolfe and Damon Knight and Andy Duncan and Gwyneth Jones [as by Gwyneth Jones and Andy Duncan and Damon Knight and Gene Wolfe and Kathleen Ann Goonan and Ken MacLeod and Paul McAuley and Nalo Hopkinson and John Clute ]
255 • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows • (1999) • novelette by Gardner Dozois
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
About the author
Kim Stanley Robinson
259 books7,770 followersKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He has published 22 novels and numerous short stories and is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."
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July 12, 2017
The "Showcase" format is a welcome improvement over some of the soggy, dull Nebula anthologies of the 80's and 90's. Check 'em out, starting (appropriately enough), with the 2000 volume, http://www.sfwa.org/sfwa-publications...
The 2002 volume is an unusually good one. The leadoff story, "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams, takes a killer look at cybernetic family values. He narrowly lost the Nebula to Gardner Dozois, below, in a thematically related story.
macs, by Terry Bisson, the Nebula short-story winner, is Bisson's take on the OKC bombings. I didn't much care for it, but that's a minority opinion, I think.
Stellar Harvest, a new story in the "Lydia Duluth" series by Eleanor Arnason, is fast-paced and fun, a fine entry to her neat new series.
Linda Nagata's Nebula-winning "Goddesses" is a profoundly hopeful near-future love-story -- that technology can improve poor peoples' lives, and enrich the rich helpers' lives in the process. Nagata writes with assurance and grace, touching on wealth & poverty, women & men, love, charity, religion and how we'll live a few years from now -- all without being preachy or dull. One of the year's best. Not to be missed. You can read the story online at scifi[dot]com.
The wrapup story is Gardner Dozois' great "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows", my favorite Dozois story ever. Dozois writes, in the Nebula anthology intro: "[This] is my take on two of the major areas of debate of science fiction in the 90's, the posthuman condition and the idea of living into a Vingean singularity..."
"From the first heraldic image to the last, this is Dozois at his most intense, personal, and skillful." --Kim Stanley Robinson, in his introduction.
All this plus the usual insightful commentary, by such luminaries as Gwyneth Jones, Andy Duncan, Damon Knight, Gene Wolfe, Ken MacLeod, and many more. So it's one of the best Nebula volumes in years. Check it out.
The 2002 volume is an unusually good one. The leadoff story, "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams, takes a killer look at cybernetic family values. He narrowly lost the Nebula to Gardner Dozois, below, in a thematically related story.
macs, by Terry Bisson, the Nebula short-story winner, is Bisson's take on the OKC bombings. I didn't much care for it, but that's a minority opinion, I think.
Stellar Harvest, a new story in the "Lydia Duluth" series by Eleanor Arnason, is fast-paced and fun, a fine entry to her neat new series.
Linda Nagata's Nebula-winning "Goddesses" is a profoundly hopeful near-future love-story -- that technology can improve poor peoples' lives, and enrich the rich helpers' lives in the process. Nagata writes with assurance and grace, touching on wealth & poverty, women & men, love, charity, religion and how we'll live a few years from now -- all without being preachy or dull. One of the year's best. Not to be missed. You can read the story online at scifi[dot]com.
The wrapup story is Gardner Dozois' great "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows", my favorite Dozois story ever. Dozois writes, in the Nebula anthology intro: "[This] is my take on two of the major areas of debate of science fiction in the 90's, the posthuman condition and the idea of living into a Vingean singularity..."
"From the first heraldic image to the last, this is Dozois at his most intense, personal, and skillful." --Kim Stanley Robinson, in his introduction.
All this plus the usual insightful commentary, by such luminaries as Gwyneth Jones, Andy Duncan, Damon Knight, Gene Wolfe, Ken MacLeod, and many more. So it's one of the best Nebula volumes in years. Check it out.
August 28, 2024
I can never pass up a sci fi collection. Such a great way to find new authors. Goddesses was my favorite. Reads like The Windup Girl. The now historical take on 9/11 was interesting. The AFAB writers really killed it in this collection.
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March 13, 2010
A solid set of stories... The basic theme seemed to be that of uploaded intelligences and the coming singularity; this seems to be a popular meme in the early 2000s.
The non-fiction portions were... interesting... as the 9/11 attacks happened in the middle while they were being written. So there's a bit of (understandable) hand-wringing underlying the resulting text.
4/5 stars
The non-fiction portions were... interesting... as the 9/11 attacks happened in the middle while they were being written. So there's a bit of (understandable) hand-wringing underlying the resulting text.
4/5 stars
March 27, 2016
Not many stories in this volume.
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