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Nebula Awards Showcase 55 Kindle Edition

by Catherynne M. Valente (Author), Sarah Pinsker (Author), Amal El-Mohtar (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades! The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published yearly since 1966, reprinting winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). This year's editor is New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente, an Andre Norton, Otherwise, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner. This year's Nebula Award winners include Sarah Pinsker, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, and Cat Rambo, among others.

Stories and Excerpts by: G. V. Anderson, Siobhan Carroll, Ted Chiang, P. Djèlí Clark, Seth Dickinson, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, A.T. Greenblatt, Vylar Kaftan, Foz Meadows, Mimi Mondal, Karen Osborne, Sarah Pinsker, Cat Rambo, Shiv Ramdas, Nibedita Sen, Rivers Solomon, LaShawn M. Wanak, Fran Wilde, A. C. Wise, and Caroline M. Yoachim

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09FFVH6YX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (September 2, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 2, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4179 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 484 pages
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Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards and has been a finalist the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, two enormous cats, four chickens, several spinning wheels with ulterior motives, an uncompleted master's degree, and a secret door in the back of her wardrobe.

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3.6 out of 5 stars
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Cascadian
2.0 out of 5 stars Even worse than usual
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022
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To describe this collection as "uneven" would be a great complement. EIGHT excerpts, including 12 pages worth of the Best Novelette--why not just dump one of the useless excerpts or bad stories and include the whole novelette? And where am I going to find the balance of the story??? As usual, this collection presents one or two "stories" that make you want to throw the book in disgust due to its unfathomable experimental-writing nature, or because it exists for no other reason than to project a "woke" ideology, or it has absolutely no SF or fantasy content whatsoever, or its just SO BAD you wonder how it could possibly have been included. Well this collection provides at least one example of all that and much more to infuriate anyone just wanting a few good SF stories. Usually there are one or two that can be considered as exceptional, but this reader deemed none to have reached that level.
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Djekaster
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring and disappointing ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2021
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To be honest, I'm deeply disappointing. Is it really Nebula Award winners? I forced myself (really - FORCED!) to read this set of strange ... hmm, amateur writings. Only one short story from the first ten has been read till the end. Each and every story smells like written by a middle school amateur. Now I'm debating: should I continue to read this pile of teen's writings in the hope to find something interesting or it's better to switch to a different book?
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Daniel L. Higgins
1.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2021
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Do not understand why the winning stories except the short story are only excerpts.

The shipping and delivery was just fine
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Alaska Miner
1.0 out of 5 stars Not that good...........
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2022
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Mostly magic stuff--No space si-fi
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Andrew Gibbs
4.0 out of 5 stars Some very good stories but too many extracts
Reviewed in Australia on September 27, 2021
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As the name implies this is the 55th volume in this series. The formats have changed over the years. The most common element of these has been to include the winning short story, novelette and novellas. This volume included a three short non-fiction articles, the short story nominees and winner, the novelette nominees and an extract from the winner, extracts of the novellas and an extract of the winning novel. It is disappointing that this is the first volume in the series not to include the complete novelette winner and it is unusual to not include the novella winner in total as well. In fact about more than a third of the 460-odd pages is extracts. I would have much preferred to read the whole of less stories rather than been thrown tidbits of more stories. I reduced the star rating for this reason alone.

That said the strength of the volume is really how strong the stories were. And there are a wide-ranging group of sometimes very good stories. Included are science fiction, ghost stories, urban fantasy, slip -stream, and alt-history. While I enjoyed reading most of them, my main quibble is none of the stories has really stayed with me that much. My favorite stories were Caroline Yoachim's science fiction story set in a distant library, A T Greenblatt's winning science fiction short story about retaining memories of times past (which is paralleled in the extract from the River Solomon novella), period pieces by Shiv Ramdas and G V Anderson and Siobhan Carroll's cat story.

Overall a good collection but in future please more full stories and less tease.
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