Nebula Awards Showcase 2005

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"Would serve well as a one-volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction." - The New York Review of Science Fiction n an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Nebuló Awards Showcase brings these stories together in one indispensable volume. An autistic faces a decision to let society and medical science cure his condition in The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. A young girl confronts her parents' doppelgangers in Neil Gaiman's Coraline. A dark secret plagues the last surviving member of an African expedition in "What I Didn't See" by Karén Joy Fowler. In Jeffrey Ford's "The Empire of Ice Cream," the key to a man's sensory affliction-and his isolation-is found in the taste of coffee. And "Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy" offers insightful commentaries about the genre's... Tovább

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"Would serve well as a one-volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction." - The New York Review of Science Fiction n an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Nebuló Awards Showcase brings these stories together in one indispensable volume. An autistic faces a decision to let society and medical science cure his condition in The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. A young girl confronts her parents' doppelgangers in Neil Gaiman's Coraline. A dark secret plagues the last surviving member of an African expedition in "What I Didn't See" by Karén Joy Fowler. In Jeffrey Ford's "The Empire of Ice Cream," the key to a man's sensory affliction-and his isolation-is found in the taste of coffee. And "Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy" offers insightful commentaries about the genre's role in our literary landscape. FICTION BY Eleanor Arnason ^ Richárd Bowes ^ Adam-Troy Castro Cory Doctorow ^ Harlan Ellison ^ Carol Emshwiller ^ Jeffrey Ford Karén Joy Fowler ^ Neil Gaiman ^ Charles L. Harness Elizabeth Moon ^ Róbert Silverberg ^ James Van Pelt COMMENTARY BY Ellen Kushner ^ Barry N. Malzberg ^ Paul McAuley China Miéville ^ Lucius Shepard ^ Bruce Sterling Jeff VanderMeer ^ George Zebrowski "The variety of taste shown by the SFFWA continues to be striking and heartening."-Publishers Weekly Vissza