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]

Nebula Awards 33
Cover of first edition
EditorConnie Willis
Cover artistJoseph Drivas
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Awards
GenreScience fiction
PublisherHarcourt Brace
Publication date
1999
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pagesxiii, 272
ISBN0-15-100372-6
OCLC41018970
813.087608
LC ClassPS648.S3 N4 1999
Preceded byNebula Awards 32 
Followed byNebula Awards Showcase 2000 

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

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
  1. Nebula Awards 33 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Review in Kirkus Reviews, Mar. 1, 1999.
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