Search Worlds Without End

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own (often highly idiosyncratic) excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 29) - essay by Pamela Sargent
• The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - essay by Gregory Benford and Eleanor Arnason and Paul Di Filippo and Rebecca Ore and Maureen F. McHugh and Michael Swanwick and Robert J. Sawyer and Norman Spinrad
• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore - (1991) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Festival Night (from Red Mars) - shortfiction by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Alfred - (1992) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• In Memoriam: Avram Davidson 1923-1993 - (1993) - essay by Lucius Shepard
• In Memoriam: Lester del Rey 1915-1993 - (1993) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• In Memoriam: Chad Oliver 1928-1993 - (1993) - essay by Howard Waldrop
• Georgia on My Mind - (1993) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• To Be from Earth - (1992) - poem by William J. Daciuk
• Will - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Death on the Nile - (1993) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Big Teeth and Small Magic: SF and Fantasy Films of 1993 - essay by Kathi Maio
• England Underway - (1993) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• The Franchise - (1993) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Night We Buried Road Dog - (1993) - novella by Jack Cady

Excellent in all departments (Kirkus Reviews), Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-of-the-year anthologies.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Nebula Awards 30) - (1996) - essay by Pamela Sargent
• The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - (1996) - essay by John Kessel and Nicola Griffith and Pat Murphy and James E. Gunn and Jack Dann and Sheila Finch and Paul Di Filippo
• Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - (1994) - novella by Mike Resnick
• Inspiration - (1994) - shortstory by Ben Bova
• Virtual Love - (1994) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• None So Blind - (1994) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Fortyday - (1994) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• In Memorium: Robert Bloch - (1994) - essay by Frank M. Robinson
• The Martian Child - (1994) - novelette by David Gerrold
• Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale - (1994) - poem by Robert Frazier and W. Gregory Stewart
• Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over - (1993) - poem by Jeff VanderMeer
• Spacer's Compass - (1993) - poem by Bruce Boston
• Understanding Entropy - (1994) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• I Know What You're Thinking - (1994) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• A Defense of the Social Contracts - (1993) - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• From a Park Bench to the Great Beyond: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of 1994 - (1996) - essay by Kathi Maio
• The Matter of Seggri - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Moving Mars (excerpt) - (1993) - shortfiction by Greg Bear

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers' own demanding peers, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best-of-year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, "essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Pamela Sargent
• Rumaging Through the Giant Purse - essay by Paul Di Filippo
• Touchstones for Gender-Benders - essay by Nancy Spinger
• Planet Deseret - essay by Judith Moffett
• The British Scene - essay by Ian Watson
• Gresham's Law and Science Fiction - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Family Values - essay by Michaela Roessner
• Solitude - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Death and the Librarian - (1994) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• Alien Jane - (1995) - shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
• Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• In Memoriam: John Brunner and Roger Zelazny - essay by Ian Watson and Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman, II
• The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Resurrection Man's Legacy - (1995) - novelette by Dale Bailey
• Pilot, Pilot - (1994) - poem by David Lunde
• Skin of Glass - (1994) - poem by Dan Raphael
• You See But You Do Not Observe - (1995) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• Old Legends - (1995) - essay by Gregory Benford
• A. E. van Vogt: Prefatory Remarks - essay by Harlan Ellison
• A. E. van Vogt: An Appreciation - essay by Charles L. Harness
• Enchanted Village - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• It'll Float, but Can It Fly? Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of 1995 - essay by Kathi Maio
• The Narcissus Plague - (1994) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• Last Summer at Mars Hill - (1994) - novella by Elizabeth Hand