Nebula Winners Twelve

Nebula Winners Twelve is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published in hardcover by Harper & Row in February 1978, and reprinted in December of the same year. A paperback edition followed from Bantam Books in April 1979.[1][2]

Nebula Winners Twelve
Dust-jacket of first edition
EditorGordon R. Dickson
IllustratorKim Kasow
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Winners
GenreScience fiction
PublisherHarper & Row
Publication date
1978
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pagesxiv, 242
ISBN0-06-011078-3
Preceded byNebula Award Stories 11 
Followed byNebula Winners Thirteen 

Summary

The book collects pieces published in 1975 and 1976 that won the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1977 and nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor. Most of the non-winning pieces nominated for the awards were omitted.

The included stories had originally appeared in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, and the anthologies Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood, Stellar #2, edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey and Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Vonda McIntyre & Susan Anderson.

Contents

Reception

Paul Walker in Galaxy Science Fiction finds the book "the most tolerable" of "the Nebula Award volumes I have read," with Dickson's introduction "intelligent and interesting, if typical of these anthologies." He singles out the Varley and Asimov stories as "excellent" and the Budrys and Gunn essays as "equally good." But he deems Grant's story "less than first-rate," "a typical 'award-winner,'" with "neither the theme nor the characters ... in any way remarkable," holds "the same is true, to a lesser extent," of the Haldeman and Monteleone stories, and is completely dismissive of Tiptree's "'Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'—which I could not."[3]

The volume was also reviewed by Stephen W. Potts in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, July 1979.[1]

Awards

The anthology placed fourteenth in the 1979 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes
  1. Nebula Winners Twelve title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-01-23.
  3. Walker, Paul. Review in Galaxy Science Fiction v. 39, no. 8, Nov./Dec. 1978, pages 136-139.
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