Nebula Awards 26

1992 anthology edited by James Morrow
978-0-15-164934-1OCLC25899170
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813.54LC ClassPS648.S3 N384 1992aPreceded byNebula Awards 25 Followed byNebula Awards 27 

Nebula Awards 26 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by James Morrow, the first of three successive volumes published under his editorship. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in May 1992.[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1991, various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, and tributes to recently deceased editor Donald A. Wollheim and 1991 Grand Master award winner Lester del Rey, together with the two Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1990 and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (James Morrow)
  • "'Democrazy,' the Marketplace, and the American Way: Remarks on the Year 1990 in Science Fiction" [essay] (Kathryn Cramer)
  • "The Shobies' Story" [Best Novelette nominee, 1991] (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • "Bears Discover Fire" [Best Short Story winner, 1991] (Terry Bisson)
  • "Tower of Babylon" [Best Novelette winner, 1991] (Ted Chiang)
  • "In Memoriam: Donald A. Wollheim" [essay] (George Zebrowski)
  • "A Tribute to Lester del Rey" [essay] (Terry Brooks)
  • "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" [Best Short Story nominee, 1991] (Pat Murphy)
  • "1/72nd Scale" [Best Novelette nominee, 1991] (Ian R. MacLeod)
  • "Lieserl" [Best Short Story nominee, 1991] (Karen Joy Fowler)
  • "Epitaph for Dreams" [Rhysling Award, Best Short Poem winner, 1990] (G. Sutton Breiding)
  • "Dear Spacemen" [Rhysling Award, Best Long Poem winner, 1990] (Patrick McKinnon)
  • "Science Fiction Movies of 1990: Spiders, Scissors, and Schwarzenegger" [essay] (Bill Warren)
  • "Over the Long Haul" [Best Novelette nominee, 1991] (Martha Soukup)
  • "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" [Best Novelette nominee, 1991] (Dafydd ab Hugh)
  • "The Hemingway Hoax" [Best Novella winner, 1991] (Joe Haldeman)
  • "About the Nebula Awards"
  • "Selected Titles from the 1990 Preliminary Nebula Ballot"
  • "Past Nebula Award Winners"

Reception

Kirkus Reviews noted that "[p]revious high standards [are] maintained" in this volume, with "plenty of varied, absorbing fiction," with "[m]ost of [it] already quite famous"–citing the contributions of Le Guin, Bisson, Chiang, Murphy and Haldeman. Cramer's overview of 1990 SF was called "useful" and Warren's piece on the year's films "best of all, ... splendid, cleareyed ... the nonfictional benchmark."[2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Gary K. Wolfe in Locus no. 376, May 1992, and Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1992.[1]

Awards

The book placed ninth in the 1993 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Nebula Awards 26 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ Review in Kirkus Reviews, Feb. 15, 1992.
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  1. Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) (Damon Knight)
  2. Nebula Award Stories Two (1967) (Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison)
  3. Nebula Award Stories 3 (1968) (Roger Zelazny)
  4. Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) (Poul Anderson)
  5. Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) (James Blish)
  6. Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971) (Clifford D. Simak)
  7. Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972) (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
  8. Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973) (Isaac Asimov)
  9. Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974) (Kate Wilhelm)
  10. Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) (James E. Gunn)
  11. Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  12. Nebula Winners Twelve (1978) (Gordon R. Dickson)
  13. Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) (Samuel R. Delany)
  14. Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) (Frederik Pohl)
  15. Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) (Frank Herbert)
  16. Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) (Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr)
  17. Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983) (Joe Haldeman)
  18. The Nebula Awards #18 (1983) (Robert Silverberg)
  19. The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) (Marta Randall)
  20. Nebula Awards 20 (1985) (George Zebrowski)
  21. Nebula Awards 21 (1986) (George Zebrowski)
  22. Nebula Awards 22 (1988) (George Zebrowski)
  23. Nebula Awards 23 (1989) (Michael Bishop)
  24. Nebula Awards 24 (1990) (Michael Bishop)
  25. Nebula Awards 25 (1991) (Michael Bishop)
  26. Nebula Awards 26 (1992) (James Morrow)
  27. Nebula Awards 27 (1993) (James Morrow)
  28. Nebula Awards 28 (1994) (James Morrow)
  29. Nebula Awards 29 (1995) (Pamela Sargent)
  30. Nebula Awards 30 (1996) (Pamela Sargent)
  31. Nebula Awards 31 (1997) (Pamela Sargent)
  32. Nebula Awards 32 (1998) (Jack Dann)
  33. Nebula Awards 33 (1999) (Connie Willis)
  34. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) (Gregory Benford)
  35. Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001) (Robert Silverberg)
  36. Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
  37. Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) (Nancy Kress)
  38. Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) (Vonda N. McIntyre)
  39. Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) (Jack Dann)
  40. Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006) (Gardner Dozois)
  41. Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) (Mike Resnick)
  42. Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) (Ben Bova)
  43. Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (2009) (Ellen Datlow)
  44. Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) (Bill Fawcett)
  45. The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) (Kevin J. Anderson)
  46. Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) (James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel)
  47. Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
  48. Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014) (Kij Johnson)
  49. Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2015) (Greg Bear)
  50. Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) (Mercedes Lackey)
  51. Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) (Julie E. Czerneda)
  52. Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) (Jane Yolen)
  53. Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019) (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
  54. Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
  55. Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)