Nebula Awards 24

1990 anthology edited by Michael Bishop
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Nebula Awards 24 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Michael Bishop, the second of three successive volumes published under his editorship. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in April 1990.[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1989 and various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with a profile of 1989 Grand Master award winner Ray Bradbury with some representative pieces by him, tributes to recently deceased authors Clifford D. Simak and Robert A. Heinlein, the three Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1988, a couple other pieces, and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Michael Bishop)
  • "Themes and Variations: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1988" [essay] (Ian Watson)
  • "Free Associating About Falling Free" [essay] (Lois McMaster Bujold)
  • "Ray Bradbury: Ambassador to the Future" [essay] (Greg Bear)
  • "The Collector Speaks" [poem] (Ray Bradbury)
  • "More Than One Way to Burn a Book" [essay] (Ray Bradbury)
  • "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" [Best Short Story winner, 1989) (James Morrow)
  • "The Devil's Arithmetic" (excerpt) [Best Novella nominee, 1989] (Jane Yolen)
  • "Rhysling Award Winners" [essay] (Michael Bishop)
  • "The Nightmare Collector" [Rhysling Award, Best Short Poem co-winner, 1988] (Bruce Boston)
  • "Rocky Road to Hoe" [Rhysling Award, Best Short Poem co-winner, 1988] (Suzette Haden Elgin)
  • "White Trains" [Rhysling Award, Best Long Poem winner, 1988] (Lucius Shepard)
  • "Schrödinger's Kitten" [Best Novelette winner, 1989] (George Alec Effinger)
  • "The Fort Moxie Branch" [Best Short Story nominee, 1989] (Jack McDevitt)
  • "In Memoriam" [essay] (Michael Bishop)
  • "In Memoriam: Clifford D. Simak" [essay] (Gordon R. Dickson)
  • "In Memoriam: Robert A. Heinlein" [essay] (Frank M. Robinson)
  • "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" [Best Novelette nominee, 1989) (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
  • "The Other Dead Man" [short story] (Gene Wolfe)
  • "The Daily Chernobyl" [poem] (Robert Frazier)
  • "The Last of the Winnebagos" [Best Novella winner, 1989] (Connie Willis)
  • "My Alphabet Starts Where Your Alphabet Ends" [essay] (Paul Di Filippo)
  • "The Year of the Pratfall: SF Movies of 1988" [essay] (Bill Warren)
  • "About the Nebulas"

Reception

Publishers Weekly calls the book a "richly eclectic volume" and a "high-quality collection of short fiction, prose, humor writing and poetry." Receiving particular comment are the stories by Willis, a "high point," Yolen, and Effinger, and the essays by Bradbury and Di Filippo (who "berates the genre for ignoring Dr. Seuss").[2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Gordon Van Gelder in The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1990, Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1990, and Doug Fratz in Quantum, Spring 1990.[1]

Awards

The book placed seventh in the 1991 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Nebula Awards 24 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ Review in Publishers Weekly, v. 237, iss. 7, February 16, 1990, p. 71.
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  1. Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) (Damon Knight)
  2. Nebula Award Stories Two (1967) (Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison)
  3. Nebula Award Stories 3 (1968) (Roger Zelazny)
  4. Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) (Poul Anderson)
  5. Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) (James Blish)
  6. Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971) (Clifford D. Simak)
  7. Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972) (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
  8. Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973) (Isaac Asimov)
  9. Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974) (Kate Wilhelm)
  10. Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) (James E. Gunn)
  11. Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  12. Nebula Winners Twelve (1978) (Gordon R. Dickson)
  13. Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) (Samuel R. Delany)
  14. Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) (Frederik Pohl)
  15. Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) (Frank Herbert)
  16. Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) (Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr)
  17. Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983) (Joe Haldeman)
  18. The Nebula Awards #18 (1983) (Robert Silverberg)
  19. The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) (Marta Randall)
  20. Nebula Awards 20 (1985) (George Zebrowski)
  21. Nebula Awards 21 (1986) (George Zebrowski)
  22. Nebula Awards 22 (1988) (George Zebrowski)
  23. Nebula Awards 23 (1989) (Michael Bishop)
  24. Nebula Awards 24 (1990) (Michael Bishop)
  25. Nebula Awards 25 (1991) (Michael Bishop)
  26. Nebula Awards 26 (1992) (James Morrow)
  27. Nebula Awards 27 (1993) (James Morrow)
  28. Nebula Awards 28 (1994) (James Morrow)
  29. Nebula Awards 29 (1995) (Pamela Sargent)
  30. Nebula Awards 30 (1996) (Pamela Sargent)
  31. Nebula Awards 31 (1997) (Pamela Sargent)
  32. Nebula Awards 32 (1998) (Jack Dann)
  33. Nebula Awards 33 (1999) (Connie Willis)
  34. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) (Gregory Benford)
  35. Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001) (Robert Silverberg)
  36. Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
  37. Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) (Nancy Kress)
  38. Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) (Vonda N. McIntyre)
  39. Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) (Jack Dann)
  40. Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006) (Gardner Dozois)
  41. Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) (Mike Resnick)
  42. Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) (Ben Bova)
  43. Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (2009) (Ellen Datlow)
  44. Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) (Bill Fawcett)
  45. The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) (Kevin J. Anderson)
  46. Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) (James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel)
  47. Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
  48. Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014) (Kij Johnson)
  49. Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2015) (Greg Bear)
  50. Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) (Mercedes Lackey)
  51. Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) (Julie E. Czerneda)
  52. Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) (Jane Yolen)
  53. Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019) (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
  54. Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
  55. Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)