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Nebula Awards Showcase 2000: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction...
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2000: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction...
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by Gregory Benford
Sales Rank : 886474
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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Harcourt April 21, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 015100479X
ISBN-13: 978-0151004799
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
From Booklist
These Nebula honorees are 1998 publications, but editor Benford is feeling millennial. The twentieth was "The Science Fiction Century," he says in his so-titled introduction addressing the furiously debated question of sf's raison d'etre. Benford has his answer but also presents others' remarks, beginning with those of Jonathan Lethem, whose Motherless Brooklyn, the 1999 Booklist Top of the List adult fiction selection, marks his crossover to mainstream fiction. Lethem mourns that sf's opportunity to enter the mainstream intact was lost in the '70s. Editor-authors Gordon Van Gelder and George Zebrowski rebut Lethem with intelligent variations on "So what?" These pieces, along with David G. Hartwell's on sf publishing, Bill Warren's on sf movies, and William Tenn's amusing Author Emeritus Award acceptance speech, fairly steal the award-winning stories' thunder, and so does the 1946 story reprinted to honor its author, new Grand Master Award winner Hal Clement. Still, the winners--Sheila Finch's "Reading the Bones," Jane Yolen's "Lost Girls," Bruce Holland Rogers' "Thirteen Ways to Water," and Joe Haldeman's Forever Peacearen't bad. Ray Olson
From Kirkus Reviews
paper 0-15-600705-3 The 1998 Nebula Award winners faithfully appear hereBruce Holland Rogers's Best Short Story, ``Thirteen Ways to Water''; Jane Yolen's Best Novelette, ``Lost Girls''; Sheila Finch's Best Novella, ``Reading the Bones''; and an excerpt from Joe Haldeman's Best Novel, Forever Peacetogether with Rhysling Award (poetry) winners John Grey and Laurel Winter, and runner-up yarns from Geoffrey A. Landis, Walter Jon Williams, and Mark J. McGarry. George Zebrowski introduces 1998's Author Emeritus, William Tenn, whose acceptance speech reminds us, often amusingly, of the furious disagreements that have characterized science fiction down the years. Poul Anderson praises Grand Master Award winner Hal Clement, while the latter contributes his story ``Uncommon Sense.'' Elsewhere, nonfictionally, editor Benford (see above) looks back at the science- fictional 20th century. Jonathan Lethem kicks off this year's debate with his complaint that SF lost all hope of claiming literary respectability when in 1973 the SWFA voted Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama Best Novel, rather than Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Rejoinders in various hues issue from Gordon van Gelder and George Zebrowskialthough nobody sees fit to remark on this year's Best Novel, where nostalgia beat out one of the finest, most wrenching SF novels ever written, J.R. Dunn's Days of Cain. Rounding out the proceedings, David Hartwell surveys the SF publishing scene, while Bill Warren eyeballs the movies. Invaluable, not just for the splendid fiction and lively nonfiction, but as another annual snapshot, complete with grins and scowls.-- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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