Nebula Awards 27: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year

Nebula Awards Showcases #27

by James K. Morrow (Editor)

Contents
* xi • Introduction (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by James Morrow
* 1 • Science Fiction for What? Remarks on the Year 1991 (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by Kathryn Cramer
* 16 • Guide Dog • [Guide Dog] • (1991) • novelette by Mike Conner
* 53 • Ma Qui • (1991) • shortstory by Alan Brennert
* 73 • Three Scenes from Stations of the Tide (excerpt) • (1991) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
* 90 • In Memoriam: Isaac Asimov (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by uncredited
* 91 • Introducing Isaac (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
* 92 • Asimov: The Last Questions • (1993) • interview of Isaac Asimov • interview by George Zebrowski
* 99 • Untitled Epitaph for Isaac Asimov (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by Harlan Ellison
* 101 • Farewell, Farewell • (1993) • essay by Isaac Asimov (aka Farewell Farewell 1992 )
* 103 • Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy • (1991) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
* 126 • The Dark • (1991) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
* 145 • They're Made Out of Meat • [Dialogue] • (1991) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
* 149 • Precessing the Simulacra for Fun and Profit • (1990) • essay by Bruce Sterling
* 159 • Auteurs at Work? The Fantastic Films of 1991 (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by Bruce Warren
* 187 • Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh • (1990) • poem by Joe Haldeman
* 189 • The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire • (1990) • poem by David Memmott
* 193 • Buffalo • (1991) • shortstory by John Kessel
* 212 • Getting Real • (1991) • novelette by Susan Shwartz
* 233 • the button, and what you know • (1991) • poem by W. Gregory Stewart
* 243 • Beggars in Spain • [Sleepless] • (1991) • novella by Nancy Kress
* 323 • About the Nebula Awards (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by uncredited
* 324 • Selected Titles from the 1991 Preliminary Nebula Ballot (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by uncredited
* 326 • Past Nebula Award Winners (Nebula Awards 27) • (1993) • essay by uncredited

Genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies, Fantasy, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction

331 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Born in 1947, James Kenneth Morrow has been writing fiction ever since he, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, dictated “The Story of the Dog Family” to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author’s private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Jim produced nine novels of speculative fiction, including the critically acclaimed Godhead Trilogy. He has won the World Fantasy Award (for Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah), the Nebula Award (for “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” and the novella City of Truth), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima). A fulltime fiction writer, Jim makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle. He is hard at work on a novel about Darwinism and its discontents.

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the last story in this anthology, "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress

[Fayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collection: 4 stars. Guide Dog (by Mike Conner): 5 stars.