The Nebula Awards 19

0-87795-662-6OCLC11476410Preceded byThe Nebula Awards #18 Followed byNebula Awards 20 

The Nebula Awards #19 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Marta Randall. It was first published in hardcover by Arbor House in December 1984.^[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1984 and a couple nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Marta Randall)
• "Hardfought" [Best Novella winner, 1984] (Greg Bear)
• "The Peacemaker" [Best Short Story winner, 1984] (Gardner Dozois)
• "Slow Birds" [Best Novelette nominee, 1984] (Ian Watson)
• "Blood Music" [Best Novelette winner, 1984] (Greg Bear)
• "Homefaring" [Best Novella nominee, 1894] (Robert Silverberg)
• "The 1983 Nebula Awards Nominees"
• "Past Nebula Winners"

Reception

Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact praises the anthology's contents, writing "[a]ll are excellent tales," highlighting the winning pieces by Bear and Dozois "for choice passages," as well as the nominated ones by Watson and Silverberg. He notes that "Marta Randall's brief introduction puts the whole Nebula process in perspective."^[2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Debbie Notkin in Locus no. 289, February 1985 and William Marden in Fantasy Review, April 1985.^[1]

Awards

The book placed twenty-second in the 1995 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.^[1]

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