Nebula Awards 33: The Year's Best Sf and Fantasy Chosen by the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Nebula Awards Showcase)

A perfect match-the all-time top Nebula Award winner edits this year's volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers' own demanding peers, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year's Nebula-winning fiction, top selections from the ballot-including work not collected in other best-of-the-year anthologies-and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year's volume, "a must-read for both serious and casual SF fans alike." Sister Emily's lightship / Jane Yolen Itsy bitsy spider / James Patrick Kelly The Nebula award for best novel / Connie Willis An excerpt from The moon and the sun / Vonda N. McIntyre The flowers of Aulit Prison / Nancy Kress The crab lice / Gregory Feeley The 1997 author emeritus: Nelson Bond / Connie Willis The bookshop / Nelson Bond Three hearings on the existence of snakes in the human bloodstream / James Alan Gardner The dead / Michael Swanwick Rhysling award winners / W. Gregory Stewart, Terry A. Garey The Elizabeth complex / Karen Joy Fowler Abandon in place / Jerry Oltion The grand master award: Poul Anderson / Connie Willis A tribute to Poul Anderson / Jack Williamson The Martyr / Poul Anderson Alive and well: messages from the edge (almost) of the Millennium A few last words to put it all in perspective / Connie Willis. A Nebula Award-winning collection of fiction features work by Jane Yolen, Nancy Kress, and Jerry Oltion; classic stories by Poul Anderson and Nelson Bond; and original essays by Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Jack Williamson, and other notable authors. Simultaneous. Presents the winning stories for best science fiction and fantasy of 1997, featuring works by Jane Yolen, James Alan Gardner, Poul Anderson, Jerry Oltion, and Nancy Kress Collection of fiction, poetry, and essays judged to represent the best in science fiction and fantasy for 1997 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America