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Nebula Awards Showcase 2010

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The year's best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume.

An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re-define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcaserepresents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection.

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This year's compilation includes stories by:

*Ursula K. LeGuin

*Catherine Asaro

*John Kessel

*Nina Kiriki Hoffman

*Harry Harrison, this year's Grandmaster

Contents

1 * Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2010) * essay by Bill Fawcett

17 * Early SF in the Pulp Magazines * essay by Robert Weinberg

23 * The Space Time Pool * (2008) * novella by Catherine Asaro (aka The Spacetime Pool)

115 * The Golden Age * essay by David Drake

119 * Powers (excerpt) * novella by Ursula K. Le Guin

163 * Science Fiction in the Fifties * essay by Robert Silverberg

175 * Selected Commentaries * essay by Algis Budrys

195 * Rules of the Game * (1996) * shortstory by Kate Wilhelm

207 * A Chance Remark * essay by Martin H. Greenberg

211 * Writing SF in the 60s * essay by Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull

219 * Pride and Prometheus * (2008) * novelette by John Kessel

263 * Science Fiction in the 1970s: The Tale of the Nerdy Duckling * essay by Kevin J. Anderson

269 * Trophy Wives * (2008) * novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

293 * Into the Eighties * essay by Lynn Abbey

301 * Talking About Fangs * (1995) * shortstory by M. J. Engh

307 * Science Fiction in the 1990s: Waiting for Godot...or Maybe Nosferatu * essay by Mike Resnick

313 * Place Mat by Moebius * (2007) * poem by Greg Beatty

317 * Eating Light * (2007) * poem by F. J. Bergmann

319 * The Seven Devils of Central California * (2007) * poem by Catherynne M. Valente

335 * Flora's Dare (excerpt) * shortstory by Ysabeau S. Wilce

371 * Medium with a Message * essay by Jody Lynn Nye

375 * WALL-E (excerpt from script) * shortfiction by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon

381 * The Acceptance Speech of the Bradbury Award Winner * essay by Joss Whedon

383 * An Appreciation of the Grand Master Harry Harrison * essay by Tom Doherty

385 * The Streets of Ashkelon * (1962) * shortstory by Harry Harrison

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