Nebula Award Stories Eight

Nebula Award Stories Eight

Cover of first edition
Author edited by Isaac Asimov
Cover artist Luba Litwak
Country United States
Language English
Series Nebula Award Stories
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Harper & Row
Publication date
1973
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages xx, 248 pp.
ISBN 0-06-010151-2
Preceded by Nebula Award Stories 7
Followed by Nebula Award Stories 9

Nebula Award Stories Eight is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in hardcover in November 1973, in the United States by Harper & Row and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz. The British edition bore the variant title Nebula Award Stories 8. Paperback editions followed from Berkley Medallion in the U.S. in September 1975, and Panther in the U.K. in the same year; both paperback editions adopted the British version of the title. The book has also been published in German.[1]

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1973 and nonfiction pieces related to the Nebula and Hugo Awards, together with an introduction by the editor. All three of the winning stories were included, but only a selection of the non-winning pieces nominated for the awards.

Contents

Reception

Kirkus Reviews assessed the anthology as "[f]irst-rate," stating it "deserves an award itself," and commenting individually on all the pieces contained except the Pohl. In particular, Rotsler is praised for "creat[ing] a new science fictional art form, and the reviewer notes that Clarke "finds wonder in the old man confronts-Jupiter theme," Russ "writes powerfully of a society of women," Ellison "spins a delicate fantasy of salvation," and Wolfe "provides a complex and subtle variation on the ... subject of clones."[2]

The book was also reviewed by P. Schuyler Miller in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, v. 93, no. 4, June 1974, W. N. MacPherson in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, issue #7, September 1975, and Richard Delap in Delap's F & SF Review, v. 1, no. 7, October 1975.[1]

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