Nebula Awards Showcase 2014
Cover of first edition
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| Author | edited by Kij Johnson |
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| Cover artist | Raoul Vitale |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nebula Awards Showcase |
| Genre | Science fiction short stories |
| Publisher | Pyr |
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Publication date
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2014 |
| Media type | print (paperback) |
| Pages | 301 pp. |
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| OCLC | 856980497 |
| Preceded by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 |
| Followed by | Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 |
Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Kij Johnson. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in May 2014.
The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2013, as well as the novel that won the Andre Norton Award for that year, tributes to 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award winner Gene Wolfe, and an early story by him, nonfiction pieces related to the awards, and the three Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Award-winning poems for 2012, 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.
Publishers Weekly calls the book a "delectable anthology fittingly honor[ing] the most recent Nebula Award recipients." While noting that some of the pieces "are a bit derivative, readers will still find a large measure of enjoyment in them,"Fans, honorees, and readers new to speculative fiction will greatly appreciate these works." Individual works commented on include those of Kim Stanley Robinson, Nancy Kress, Andy Duncan, Grand Master recipient Gene Wolfe, E.C. Myers, and the Rhysling Award–winning poems. Reviewed on: 03/17/2014 Release date: 05/13/2014
Glenn Dallas in the San Francisco Book Review praises the anthology's "impressively weird, thought-provoking, and challenging reads, as well as some singularly engaging poetry and a marvelous tribute to Gene Wolfe," as well as de Bodard's "wonderful story 'Immersion,'" which he counts among "a few unexpected surprises." Overall, however, the book "left me a little cold" and that while "[t]he Nebula Awards exemplify the finest traditions of speculative fiction ... this particular showcase underwhelms." In particular he criticizes how Nancy Kress's novella "dominates nearly a third of the book," and deems "that space would've been better served by offering glimpses of a few more nominees in order to give a greater sense of the year’s accomplishments, trends, and aspirations."
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