Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

Nebula Awards Showcase 2016
Cover of first edition
EditorMercedes Lackey
Cover artistReiko Murakami
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Awards Showcase
GenreScience fiction and fantasy
PublisherPyr
Publication date
2016
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages412
ISBN978-1-63388-138-9
OCLC918283000
Preceded byNebula Awards Showcase 2015 
Followed byNebula Awards Showcase 2017 

Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works edited by Mercedes Lackey. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in May 2016.[1][2]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2014 (presented in 2015), and nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor and a list of past Nebula Award winners. Nominees for the Best Novella award are represented by excerpts, as is the winner of the Best Novel award (nominees for Best Novel are omitted).

Contents

Reception

Publishers Weekly calls the anthology a "thought-provoking sample of Nebula Award nominees and winners spotlight[ing] the best of science fiction and fantasy published in 2014." After discussing the Johnson, Pinsker, Wong, Liu, Foster, VanderMeer, and Kress pieces individually, it concludes that "[e]ach of these tales offers something compelling and the collection will appeal to a wide range of tastes."[2]

Brandon Sanford, writing in the Portland Book Review, takes issue with the editor's introductory disclaimer that the contents "probably won’t be what the 'average reader' would like," feeling it "reeks of elitism, or defensiveness," and detects "a certain irony to declaiming popular taste and then releasing a collection for popular consumption." Regardless, he finds "a lot to love about Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, even for the 'average reader.'" He describes the short stories as "beautiful gems, polished to perfection" and the novelettes as "all entertaining and unique, though some are not as successful as others – perhaps suffering from a lack of brevity." He assesses the novella winner as "spectacularly wonderful ... leav[ing] the reader wanting more," but the excerpts of the other novella nominees as "a little awkward, like textual book trailers stuck showing only one scene. Some give tastes of the skill that won their nomination, while others do not dazzle with such a limited glimpse." He feels the novel winner excerpt "does not reveal much and, because of this, promises inscrutable mysteries and tense, psychological thrills in a surreal landscape." Over all, he determines each story "has immersive characters for the reader to climb inside and abide in for awhile," and recommends the book as "well worth your time."[3]

Clay Kallam in the San Jose Mercury News also finds irony in Mercedes Lackey, "best known for professionally written but seriously lightweight fantasies," editing "fiction that [is] supposed to make you uncomfortable." He finds in the book's selections a "tug-of-war" between stories "quite clearly meant to be literature, and others ... more focused on entertainment." He cites the Foster piece as an instance of the former, the Kress piece as an example of the latter, and the Vernon as one combining both traits: "[I]f as a reader you land on one side of the fence or the other, you're bound to be a little disappointed, because half of the book won't make you happy. ... So on the one hand, this is a rather lukewarm recommendation for these books, but on the other, they show the depth and creative power of the genre."[4]

The anthology was also reviewed by Norman Spinrad in Asimov's Science Fiction, v. 40, no. 10/11, Oct./Nov. 2016, and Lynne Bispham in Vector 284, summer 2016.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ a b Publishers Weekly (review), Feb. 22, 2016.
  3. ^ Sanford, Brandon. Review in the Portland Book Review, May 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Kallam, Clay. "'Showcase' Displays Sci-Fi Highbrow and Low" (review) in The Mercury News, San Jose, CA, March 5, 2017, p. 5D.

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