Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

By Penguin Group

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year's stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year's award-winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2000
• ISBN: 9781101212813

Reviews for Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

[figre · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

(The following sentence pains me greatly.) This is the worst collection of stories I have ever encountered in a Nebula Awards collection.I am a huge fan of these collections and they have always represented an excellent opportunity to visit some of the finest science fiction written every year. But this particular collection has nothing to make it stand out from any other collection. Oh, the stories are okay. But there are none of them that jump from the page as a Nebula Award winner should. Further, the essays that are so integral to the success of this series (on various subjects related to the current condition of science fiction) just talk and little else. (Well, one exception – the essay by Bud Webster on how The Science Fiction Hall of Fame books were constructed – is interesting, but only because I was a fan of those books.)I don’t think this collection is a reflection of the state of science fiction or the Nebula Awards - last year’s collection was five-star. But it is a reflection of the selections that were made this year. Overall, the collection just sits there and wilts, and it is a collection I would recommend to no one.