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Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 Paperback – August 7, 2018
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- Print length287 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPyr
- Publication dateAugust 7, 2018
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-101633885046
- ISBN-13978-1633885042
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So here are some of my quick thoughts about what did win the 2016 Nebula, some of which you have ahead of you in this book.
First—because the award is closest to my heart—the winner of the Andre Norton award is an Andre Norton-type book with a kick! A book that harkens back to those old, worn-out paperback sf-fantasy novels but manages to haul them into the future, and pummels the prose into brilliant shape with a touch of steampunk as well: Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine, which should also be a winner for sweetest dedication ever.
Charlie Jane Anders’s novel All the Birds in the Sky is a powerful blend of science fiction and fantasy plus lovely writing. The cast of characters are so well delineated that the novel can also serve as a writing lesson for those of you wanting to try that same doubled genre.
The Novella winner, Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire, is a lyrical, shimmering, surprising novella that brings us back to our childhood reading and forward into murder, magic, mayhem and deep-soul fantasy.
The Novelette winner, ‘‘The Long Fall Up’’ by William Ledbetter, is true science fiction with an emphasis on the science. Ledbetter, a thirty-year veteran of the aerospace industry is a strong writer, and he’s not faking the science. The politics of birth and the place of women and pregnant women in space is a story that leaves a deep impression.
Amal El-Mohtar’s winning short story is the crown jewel in the anthology. As a folklorist manqué, I love how she plays with elements from folk tales. Her story is “Seasons of Glass and Iron” (from The Starlit Wood anthology). It’s a melding of several fairy tales. First, she has used the Norwegian “The Princess on the Glass Hill” to delineate one of the two main characters and problems. The second character seems to be from “East of the Sun & West of the Moon” combined with the Romanian story “The Sleeping Prince,” and perhaps “The Black Bull of Norroway,” all difficult and intriguing tales that I know and love. But Amal re-animates and re-imagines them through a feminist telescope, bringing the far-away and once upon a time into a newer, sharper focus.
Odd winners? You betcha, but in the best possible way.
—Jane Yolen
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- Publisher : Pyr; First Edition (August 7, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 287 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1633885046
- ISBN-13 : 978-1633885042
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,669,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,353 in Science Fiction Short Stories
- #5,378 in Fantasy Anthologies
- #5,932 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
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The stories that are published are generally slip stream or fantasy. I thought Amal El-Mohtar's winner was really powerful - told as a classic fairytale/legend it tells of the different fates of two women. Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's (great name) novelette nominee covers similar territory and is also very good, as does Sam Miller's short story nominee. Speculative fiction meets the Me too movement.
The other stories are all good or better. Just a pity about not following the regular pattern of publishing the complete novella.
All nominated and winning short stories are presented here. The problem is it looks like it was a weak year because they really aren't all that strong. They're pretty good but Nebula award stories should knock my socks off and none of them did.
Luckily the longer forms are better, the novella and novelettes. All novellas are presented, except one nominated novella is excerpted. Very strange, not sure how they picked that one. Only the winning novelette is published, that is expected as they are much longer, however even that was excerpted. I would have appreciated more pages so that I could get the complete novelette and that one extra novella. Despite these issues the longer form fiction are very solid stories.
The two winning novels are excerpted, that is to be expected. I wouldn't expect the whole of each novel or excerpts from the other nominated novels due to page count restrictions. From the excerpts they both seem good but it is tough to extrapolate the few pages we got to how well either novel would be.
After a while (not short) I picked it up again and saw the variation between stories clearly and with a less jaundiced eye. I was pleased and decided to let the title remain as is.
Here are a few of the stories with a comment or three each.
1. “Our Talons can Crush Galaxies” - weird, creative, ucky and a summation of the universe - fantasy
2. “When Your Child Strays from God” - Ah, corporate intrique, lack of finesser, hate missiles and orders out the window - hard SF
3. “Things with Beards: - straightforward, steathy operational planning and war in the city - SF
This book is a bit beyond or ahead of my years. Its a 3.5 but I’ll say, hesitantly, a four.