Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Nebula Awards Showcases #28

by James K. Morrow (Editor/ contributor), Connie Willis (Contributor), Pamela Sargent (Contributor)

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Presents the winning stories for best science fiction and fantasy of 1992, featuring works by Connie Willis and Frederick Pohl, and appreciations of the late Fritz Leiber.

Contents:
Introduction (Nebula Awards 28) • essay by James Morrow
Is Science Fiction Out to Lunch? Some Thoughts on the Year 1992 • essay by John Clute
Even the Queen • (1992) • short story by Connie Willis
Danny Goes to Mars • (1992) • novelette by Pamela Sargent
Matter's End • (1991) • novelette by Gregory Benford
In Memoriam: Fritz Leiber • essay by James Morrow
Gentleman Fritz • essay by Poul Anderson
Doing It Right • essay by David G. Hartwell
A World Without Fritz • essay by Stephen King
Let There Be Fandom • essay by Frederik Pohl
The July Ward • (1991) • novelette by S.N. Dyer (i.e. Sharon N. Farber)
Lennon Spex • (1992) • short story by Paul Di Filippo
The Mountain to Mohammed • (1992) • short story by Nancy Kress
Hopeful Monsters: The SF and Fantasy Films of 1992 • essay by Nick Lowe
Song of the Martian Cricket • (1991) • poem by David Lunde (variant of Song of the Martian Cricket (for Marilyn))
Vinland the Dream • (1991) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats • (1991) • short story by Michael Bishop
City of Truth • (1991) • novella by James Morrow

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fantasy

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Born in 1947, James Kenneth Morrow has been writing fiction ever since he, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, dictated “The Story of the Dog Family” to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author’s private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Jim produced nine novels of speculative fiction, including the critically acclaimed Godhead Trilogy. He has won the World Fantasy Award (for Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah), the Nebula Award (for “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” and the novella City of Truth), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima). A fulltime fiction writer, Jim makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle. He is hard at work on a novel about Darwinism and its discontents.

Reviews

[Raving Redcoat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quite interesting look at one of the least know ship sinkings, the Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank in January of 1945, killing over 9,000 men, women, and children. It's told through the eyes of a small number of youths and young adults, and serves as a bitter reminder of how many casualties of war are those least involved in it.

[Philip Hollenback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another fine Nebula collection. The only reason this one loses points is I didn't really enjoy the closing novella 'City of Truth'.

[Kristen Frankie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some interesting stories. Very good choices.