It is ironic but fitting that Mercedes Lackey is the editor of “Nebula Awards Showcase 2016” (Pyr, $18, 412 pages), as Lackey is best known for professionally written but seriously lightweight ...

Who knows what counts as science fiction anymore. If we’re going by the genre’s awards, anyway, what was once the province of space operas and souped-up technology now includes liminal tales that once ...

Author: Ben Bova (ed)Publisher: Roc Science FictionISBN: 978-0-451-46188-9RRP: £10.99Website: www.penguin.com A Nebula Award is extremely prestigious. Win one, and you’re made. Bestowed by the by the ...

Ursula K. Le Guin still remembers what it was like to be a science-fiction writer in the Northwest after she moved up from California in 1958. For many years, the Portland writer was part of a triad ...

IT BILLS ITSELF as a snapshot of where science fiction and fantasy is today, but if “Nebula Awards Showcase 2007” (Roc, $15.95, 383 pages) is truly the best the field has to offer, there are dark ...

Edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. Pyr, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61614-619-1 From the cover by Nebula-winning artist Michael Whelan to the very last page, this remarkable ...