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Nebula Awards Showcase 2006

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Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r) bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought-provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcasecollects the year's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year's winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

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Contents

1 * Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Gardner Dozois

8 * The Green Leopard Plague * (2003) * novella by Walter Jon Williams

73 * Basement Magic * (2003) * novelette by Ellen Klages

101 * Dry Bones * (2003) * novelette by William Sanders

123 * The Masters Speak: Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Gardner Dozois

127 * Science Fiction Century (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Jack Williamson

130 * The Way It Was (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Robert Silverberg

140 * Teaching the Art (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Ursula K. Le Guin

142 * Change and Okay In All Around I See (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Brian W. Aldiss

145 * Then and Now (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Frederik Pohl

152 * The Voluntary State * (2004) * novelette by Christopher Rowe

188 * Grand Master Anne McCaffrey: An Appreciation * (2006) * essay by Jody Lynn Nye

193 * The Ship Who Sang * [The Ship Who Sang] * (1961) * novelette by Anne McCaffrey

213 * Coming to Terms * (2004) * shortstory by Eileen Gunn

224 * Embracing-the-New * (2004) * shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum

236 * Paladin of Souls (excerpt) * (2003) * shortfiction by Lois McMaster Bujold

250 * Zora and the Zombie * (2004) * novelette by Andy Duncan

271 * Film: The Year in Review (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) * (2006) * essay by Kathy Maio

283 * Travels with My Cats * (2004) * shortstory by Mike Resnick

304 * Just Distance * (2003) * poem by Roger Dutcher

305 * Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks * (2003) * poem by Theodora Goss

309 * The Cookie Monster * (2003) * novella by Vernor Vinge

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