Nebula Award Winning Novellas

by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Barry B. Longyear, Poul Anderson

Science Fiction short stories by the best writers in america including Arthur C. Clarke & Roger Zelazny. Good reading.

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

590 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.

For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike a few anthologies, this one was well-balanced in regard to story quality. Not surprising based on the title. :-)
I had read a few of these before but they were worth my time to revisit. I picked this up because "A Meeting with Medusa" is a prequel to a current book written by Baxter and Reynolds called "The Medusa Chronicles" (reviewed later) and also for the fact that these are all award-winning novellas. My favorites were "The Last of the Winnebagos" and "The Persistence of Vision".

[Timothy · Rating 4 out of 5]

10 novellas:

***** Ill Met in Lankhmar (1970) • Fritz Leiber
** A Meeting with Medusa (1971) • Arthur C. Clarke
**** Home Is the Hangman (1975) • Roger Zelazny
**** The Persistence of Vision (1978) • John Varley
**** Enemy Mine (1979) • Barry B. Longyear
** The Saturn Game (1981) • Poul Anderson
***** Hardfought (1983) • Greg Bear
**** Sailing to Byzantium (1985) • Robert Silverberg
* The Last of the Winnebagos (1988) • Connie Willis
**** The Mountains of Mourning (1989) • Lois McMaster Bujold

[Jonah · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a milestone...

I've completed this anthology after at least 6 years of having it lying around! So many life events happened as I chipped away at this.

They're all pretty good and varied, but The Persistence of Vision by John Varley is one of the most incredible stories ever. It will effect ALL your senses while reading it... that's all I should say.

[Tawallah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this collection of novella. Definitely good way to view different writing styles. They were all thought provoking. The only one I struggled with was the persistence of vision. Though that may be more my worldview. Not the writing style.

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought Frits Leiber's "Ill Met in Lankhmar" and Lois McMaster Bujold's "The Mountains of Mourning" were the strongest stories.