Nebula Awards 31: Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year [Anglais] [Broché]

YA. Once again, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have come up with an excellent grouping of short stories, essays, and poems for their annual awards. Contributors include Harlan Ellison, Ursula Leguin, Robert S. Silverbert, and Lisa Goldstein. The selections range from the bizarre as in "Alien Jane" or "Think Like a Dinosaur" to the seemingly mundane with a slight twist as in "Death and the Librarian." Poems and essays on such topics as science fiction and fantasy films of the year are also included. A feast for fans of the genre.
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Members of the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) annually read and vote on the best fiction from their peers. This 1995 compilation includes not only a Nebula Award-winning novella by Elizabeth Hand and a novelette by Ursula K. LeGuin but short stories, poetry, and essays from the annual symposium assessing the state of science fiction, among other riches. Essential for science fiction collections not only for the winning entries but for the evaluative essays by some of the genre's top writers.
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The most recent Nebula Awards honored Elizabeth Hand's "Last Summer at Mars Hill" as the best novella, Ursula Le Guin's "Solitude" as the best novelette, and Esther M. Friesner's "Death and the Librarian" as the best short story of sf or fantasy published during late 1994 and most of 1995. Those three appear here, accompanied by some of the other works nominated in their categories, appreciations of new Nebula grand master honoree A. E. Van Vogt, a symposium on 1995's sf and fantasy, the two winners of the Rhysling Award for sf poetry, memorials of lately departed masters Roger Zelazny and John Brunner, an evaluation of 1995 sf and fantasy films, and a Sherlock Holmes story by 1995 best novel laureate Robert J. Sawyer. Ray Olson --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

The Nebula Awards of 1995, as voted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The winners, Esther M. Friesner's ``Death and the Librarian'' (Best Short Story), Ursula K. Le Guin's ``Solitude'' (Best Novelette), and Elizabeth Hand's ``Last Summer at Mars Hill'' (Best Novella), appear, along with a selection of ballot finalists (from Kelley Eskridge, James Patrick Kelly, Maureen F. McHugh, Dale Bailey, Robert J. Sawyer--his The Terminal Experiment captured the Best Novel award--and Lisa Goldstein). Also included are Rhysling Award (poetry) winners David Lunde and Dan Raphael. Harlan Ellison and Charles L. Harness enthuse over Grandmaster Award winner A.E. van Vogt, who contributes the excellent ``The Enchanted Village.'' Paul Di Filippo, Nancy Springer, Judith Moffett, Ian Watson, Robert Silverberg, and Michaela Roessner provide overviews; Ian Watson, Jack Dann, and Jack C. Haldeman III memorialize the late John Brunner and Roger Zelazny; Kathi Maio examines 1995's movies; and Gregory Benford furnishes a splendid autobiographical essay. Fine fiction along with valuable insights: another excellent compendium. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers' own demanding peers, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best-of-year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, "essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction."

The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's choices for the best of the genre for 1996 contains work by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, and others, accompanied by essays written just for this volume.