Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
Cover of first edition
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| Author | edited by Catherine Asaro |
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| Cover artist | Julie Dillon |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nebula Awards Showcase |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Pyr |
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Publication date
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2013 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 428 pp. |
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| OCLC | 818738083 |
| Preceded by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 |
| Followed by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 |
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Catherine Asaro. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in May 2013.
The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2012, as well as the novel that won the Andre Norton Award for that year, an early story by 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award winner Connie Willis, nonfiction pieces related to the awards, and the two Rhysling Award-winning poems for 2011, together with an introduction by the editor. The pieces winning the Best Novel and Andre Norton awards are represented by excerpts. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.
Kirkus Reviews calls the collection "[e]ssential fare for short story aficionados, even though some of the contents have appeared in other collections." It goes on to discuss several of the included pieces briefly, singling out those of Liu, Johnson, Ryman, Willis, and Yu for particular praise.
Ryder Miller in the Portland Book Review writes that "The Nebula, despite the recent proliferation of new awards, has remained a stalwart guide to what the field aspires to be. One can also get a sense of how the field has changed with recent works veering off into the fantastic in this Showcase." While regretting the dearth of such traditional themes as "interstellar travel, journeys in time and encounters with extraterrestrials [and] the dream of a clear cut divide between good and evil," he notes the emergence in the anthology of "new directions and genre hybrids [and] some interesting literary stories requiring a close or second reading [that] seem more appropriate for more mature audiences, but maybe one should not underestimate the young." He notes the presence of "[s]ome big names" along with "new writers and disparate voices" and finds some of the pieces "oceanic, rather than cosmic." He concludes that while "[o]ne is not likely to enjoy everything, ... there is a fair bit to be impressed by."
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