The Best of the Nebulas

by Ben Bova, Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, et al.

Book Overview

The Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award--now celebrating its silver anniversary--is presented each year. Collected here are the ten best Nebula Award-winning works. Each author has contributed a new essay about his or her book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312931751
• ISBN13: 9780312931759
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 593 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

A collection that is taken from the list of Nebula winners between 1965 and 1985. As such, chosen by an experienced editor like Bova, you would expect it to be an excellent selection. It is, averaging the magic 4.0 per story exactly. Best of the Nebulas : The Doors of His Face the Lamps of His Mouth - Roger Zelazny Best of the Nebulas : Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman - Harlan Ellison Best of the Nebulas : He Who Shapes - Roger Zelazny Best of the Nebulas : Aye and Gomorrah - Samuel R. Delany Best of the Nebulas : Passengers - Robert Silverberg Best of the Nebulas : Behold the Man [SS] - Michael Moorcock Best of the Nebulas : When It Changed - Joanna Russ Best of the Nebulas : Gonna Roll the Bones - Fritz Leiber Best of the Nebulas : Dragonrider - Anne McCaffrey Best of the Nebulas : Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - James Tiptree Jr. Best of the Nebulas : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - Samuel R. Delany Best of the Nebulas : A Boy and His Dog - Harlan Ellison Best of the Nebulas : The Day Before the Revolution - Ursula K. Le Guin Best of the Nebulas : Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon Best of the Nebulas : Houston Houston Do You Read? - James Tiptree, Jr. Best of the Nebulas : Catch That Zeppelin! - Fritz Leiber Best of the Nebulas : Of Mist and Grass and Sand - Vonda N. McIntyre Best of the Nebulas : The Persistence of Vision [SS] - John Varley Best of the Nebulas : Grotto of the Dancing Deer - Clifford D. Simak Best of the Nebulas : Sandkings - George R. R. Martin Best of the Nebulas : Jeffty Is Five - Harlan Ellison Big fish, or cut bait bloke. 3.5 out of 5 Joker fan not keen on digital watches, but does quite like a jelly bean. 3.5 out of 5 Psychiatric seeing rather stoopid. 3.5 out of 5 Gender altered space workers provide exotic rough trade on shore leave. 3 out of 5 Mind ridden physical reservations. 4 out of 5 Jaysus, it's time for. 4 out of 5 Separation anxiety. 3.5 out of 5 Dicing with Death. 4.5 out of 5 Time for some serious dragon recruiting. 5 out of 5 I'm for dinner, mum. 4 out of 5 Singing shiny password. 4 out of 5 Never you mind my mind, people are tasty. 4 out of 5 Political extroversion is tiring. 4 out of 5 Charged cancer cure. 4 out of 5 Solar flare spaceship time lost in space, plague earth now has paucity of separatist clone chick population. 4.5 out of 5 Airship transport changes. 3 out of 5 Double serpent treatment. 4.5 out of 5 Communication fuller but lots weirder with fewer senses. 4.5 out of 5 Only fair to have an immortal Cro-Magnon given the odd immortal neanderthal. 4 out of 5 Parents eventual terminal lack of patience with kid with the brilliant new old stuff. 5 out of 5