Nebula Awards 33
Nebula Awards 33 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Connie Willis. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace in April 1999.[1]
Summary
The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 1999, profiles of 1998 Author Emeritus Nelson Bond and 1998 Grand Master award winner Poul Anderson with representative early stories by them, and various other nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with the Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1997 and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included, and the best novel is represented by an excerpt.
Contents
- "Introduction" (Connie Willis)
- "Sister Emily's Lightship" [Best Short Story winner, 1998] (Jane Yolen)
- "Itsy Bitsy Spider" [Best Short Story nominee, 1998] (James Patrick Kelly)
- "The Nebula Award for Best Novel" [essay] (Connie Willis)
- "An Excerpt from The Moon and the Sun [Best Novel winner, 1998] (Vonda N. McIntyre)
- "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" [Best Novelette winner, 1998] (Nancy Kress)
- "The Crab Lice" [Best Short Story nominee, 1998] (Gregory Feeley)
- "The 1997 Author Emeritus: Nelson Bond" [essay] (Connie Willis)
- "The Bookshop" [short story] (Nelson Bond)
- "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" [Best Novelette nominee, 1998] (James Alan Gardner)
- "The Dead" [Best Short Story nominee, 1998] (Michael Swanwick)
- "Rhysling Award Winners" [essay] (Connie Willis)
- "Day Omega" [Rhysling Award - Best Short Poem winner, 1997] (W. Gregory Stewart)
- "Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes" [Rhysling Award – Best Long Poem winner, 1997] (Terry A. Garey)
- "The Elizabeth Complex" [Best Short Story nominee, 1998] (Karen Joy Fowler)
- "Abandon in Place" [Best Novella winner, 1998] (Jerry Oltion)
- "The Grand Master Award: Poul Anderson" [essay] (Connie Willis)
- "A Tribute to Poul Anderson" [essay] (Jack Williamson)
- "The Martyr" [novelette] (Poul Anderson)
- "Alive and Well: Messages from the Edge (almost) of the Millennium" [essay] (Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Cassutt, Sheila Williams, Christie Golden, Cynthia Felice, Ellen Datlow, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy and Geoffrey A. Landis)
- "A Few Last Words to Put It All in Perspective" [essay] (Connie Willis)
Reception
Kirkus Reviews called the anthology's fiction "[t]errific," singling out McIntyre's novel as "splendid historical fantasy", the finalist pieces as "impressive", and the Anderson selection as "typically brilliant". The reviewer has "a Bronx cheer for the nonfiction," however, characterizing them as a "thumping disappointment... just anodyne scraps (the redoubtable Kim Stanley Robinson honorably excepted)". It also notes the omission of both Bill Warren's film criticism and any obituaries, given the 1997 passings of Jerome Bixby, Judith Merrill, and George Turner. "Maybe somebody decided that last year's opinionated and thoroughly refreshing growls and hisses Simply Wouldn't Do."[2]
The collection was also reviewed by Gary K. Wolfe in Locus no. 459, April 1999, Clinton Lawrence in Science Fiction Weekly, Apr. 12, 1999, and John Clute in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1999.[1]
Awards
The anthology placed twelfth in the 2000 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Nebula Awards 33 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Review in Kirkus Reviews, Mar. 1, 1999.
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- Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) (Damon Knight)
- Nebula Award Stories Two (1967) (Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison)
- Nebula Award Stories 3 (1968) (Roger Zelazny)
- Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) (Poul Anderson)
- Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) (James Blish)
- Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971) (Clifford D. Simak)
- Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972) (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
- Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973) (Isaac Asimov)
- Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974) (Kate Wilhelm)
- Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) (James E. Gunn)
- Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Nebula Winners Twelve (1978) (Gordon R. Dickson)
- Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) (Samuel R. Delany)
- Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) (Frederik Pohl)
- Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) (Frank Herbert)
- Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) (Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr)
- Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983) (Joe Haldeman)
- The Nebula Awards #18 (1983) (Robert Silverberg)
- The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) (Marta Randall)
- Nebula Awards 20 (1985) (George Zebrowski)
- Nebula Awards 21 (1986) (George Zebrowski)
- Nebula Awards 22 (1988) (George Zebrowski)
- Nebula Awards 23 (1989) (Michael Bishop)
- Nebula Awards 24 (1990) (Michael Bishop)
- Nebula Awards 25 (1991) (Michael Bishop)
- Nebula Awards 26 (1992) (James Morrow)
- Nebula Awards 27 (1993) (James Morrow)
- Nebula Awards 28 (1994) (James Morrow)
- Nebula Awards 29 (1995) (Pamela Sargent)
- Nebula Awards 30 (1996) (Pamela Sargent)
- Nebula Awards 31 (1997) (Pamela Sargent)
- Nebula Awards 32 (1998) (Jack Dann)
- Nebula Awards 33 (1999) (Connie Willis)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) (Gregory Benford)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001) (Robert Silverberg)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) (Nancy Kress)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) (Vonda N. McIntyre)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) (Jack Dann)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006) (Gardner Dozois)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) (Mike Resnick)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) (Ben Bova)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (2009) (Ellen Datlow)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) (Bill Fawcett)
- The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) (Kevin J. Anderson)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) (James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014) (Kij Johnson)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2015) (Greg Bear)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) (Mercedes Lackey)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) (Julie E. Czerneda)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) (Jane Yolen)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019) (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)