A perfect match-the all-time top Nebula Award winner edits this year's volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers' own demanding peers, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year's Nebula-winning fiction, top selections from the ballot-including work not collected in other best-of-the-year anthologies-and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year's volume, "a must-read for both serious and casual SF fans alike."
The annual Nebula Awards are given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to honor the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story of the previous year. Nebula Awards 33 editor and six-time Nebula winner Connie Willis reveals her love of the Nebula collection tradition:
"In those 33 eventful years, I've won Nebula Awards and lost them (or, as this year's toastmaster, Michael Cassutt, put it, I've been 'differently victorious'). And I've read another 31 Nebula Awards collections and all the stories in them.... And you know what? I'm just as dazzled, just as awed and impressed, by the Nebula Award stories as I was that first time."
Nebula Awards 33 features Jane Yolen's Best Short Story winner, Sister Emily's Lightship, a tale of poetic inspiration from the stars; The Flowers of Aulit Prison, Nancy Kress's winner for Best Novelette, which beautifully examines the persistence of memory; the Best Novella winner, Jerry Oltion's Abandon in Place, an extraordinary space-ghost story; and an excerpt from Vonda N. McIntyre's lush historical fantasy The Moon and the Sun, which took Best Novel honors.
A terrific selection of "differently victorious" pieces rounds out this outstanding collection, along with the essays, author profiles (of Nelson Bond and Poul Anderson), and Rhysling Award winners (for science fiction poetry) we've come to expect in the Nebula series. The Nebula nominees represent some of the best science fiction and fantasy published each year, and Nebula Awards 33 is full of high-caliber writing, great ideas, and fascinating insight into the minds and hearts of the nominated authors. --Therese Littleton
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Always Entertaining, Often Mind Blowing:
It really doesn't matter which volume of the Nebula Awards you pick up, you know that you're going to discover some great SF stories. That is certainly true of NEBULA AWARDS 33. Sure, you might find one or two that you don't care for, but those stories are probably the exception to the rule. Out of the works selected for inclusion in this volume, I found six of them to be outstanding, with a couple of them blowing me away. The SF stories that I enjoy the most teach me about myself and the world around... more info
Good summary of the year:
Another collection of this long-running series that presents the award-winning fiction for the previous year. I'll comment on the individual stories:
Jane Yolen, "Sister Emily's Lightship" -- I've never been a Yolen fan. While I find her prose professional enough, I've never read anything by her that would make me jump up and rush out to force someone to read it. This story is no exception. The premise of Emily Dickinson meeting an alien is too...precious, and Yolen's sole contribution to that premise in... more info
very disappointing:
a collection of SCI-FI short stories , poems ext.. edited by the author conny willis.
tee writings are from many genres of SCI-FI and by different writers, some are new and some are SCI-FI master from the old generation.
most of the stories are very weak, and some are very peculiar
the best things about the book, is that ther reader can always skip to the next story, and mabee to find something for is taste.
i think this book is realy for SCI FI fanatic fans only, especially for those who are... more info
Disappointing:
History repeats itself: Two years ago I read Nebula Awards 31. The only story that engaged me was by Grand Master AE Van Vogt - a story written over 50 years ago. I don't remember much else about that volume.
Nebula Awards 33 concludes with a story by Grand Master Poul Anderson written about 40 years ago. It's easily the best thing in the book. If I were to guess what this means about contemporary short science fiction, I would say the genre is not only short on new ideas, but it has lost the joy of the... more info
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