Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616147830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 428 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
State of the Art Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) is a Speculative Fiction anthology of Nebula Award nominees. It contains the stories and poems that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers selected as the best in their category for 2012. It includes an introduction, sixteen stories and poems, and four administrative items. - "Introduction" by Catherine Asaro -- the editor -- mentions the stories in an autobiographical context. She discusses the Arts and Sciences as creative works. Both draw upon intuition and reasoning. - "The Paper Menagerie" (F&SF, 2011) by Ken Liu is the winner in the Short Story category. It tells a story of gro. "Sci Fi updated with modern technology and Earth,s diverse cultural heritage." according to Barry Simonsen. I enjoyed the book, it had some interesting ideas which I have not seen explored before. New visions of the future with present advances in AI, possible future colonisation of the galaxy, different slants on the make up of Earth's diverse cultures incorporated into the ideas. Some of the stories did not have endings that were completely tied up, and that is possibly due to them being short stories with a limited number of words available.Overall my impression was good.. "Fantastic" according to Michael Hlousek. Fantastic. These anthologies are my favorite books to look forward to each year.
Visit her at facebook/Catherine.Asaro. Her soundtrack Diamond Star, for her novel of the same name, is performed with the rock band Point Valid. She is a multiple winner of the Readers' Choice Award from Analog magazine and a three-time recipient of the RT BOOKClub Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. . She is a theoretical physicist with a PhD from Harvard and teaches part-time at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Editor Catherine Asa
E. Cooney, David Goldman, Katherine Sparrow, E. Lily Yu, and Brad R. The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is two-time Nebula winner, Catherine Asaro. This year's volume includes stories and excerpts by Connie Willis, Jo Walton, Kij Johnson, Geoff Ryman, John Clute, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Ferrett Steinmetz, Ken Liu, Nancy Fulda, Delia Sherman, Amal El-Mohtar, C. The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America(R). S. Torgersen.
--Alison Downs . “The Paper Menagerie,” by Ken Lui, is a bittersweet short story about a Chinese mother whose breath brings origami to life and the American-born son who pushes her away. From Booklist Since 1966, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America have published the Nebula Awards’ nominated and winning stories. Several stories make this compilation worth reading, particularly the excerpt of this year’s novel winner, Among Others, by Joe Walton, in which a young girl must seek shelter with her father, who abandoned her at birth, after she endures deep destruction that robbed her of her ability to walk and her identical twin sister’s life. Featuring writing of the highest quality in the genre, this compilation is certain to appeal to those demanding imaginative fiction. “The Ice Owl,” by Carolyn Ives Gilman, follows a young girl as she arrives on a new planet where she meets an old man who, hundreds of years ago, facilitate