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Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, the year's best science fiction and fantasy selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, edited by Mercedes Lackey ; stories, excerpts, and poems by Sarah Pinsker, Aliette de Bodard, Usman T. Malik, Matthew Kressel, Eugie Foster, Alyssa Wong, Ursula Vernon, Richard Bowes, Kai Ashante Wilson, Carmen Maria Machado, Tom Crosshill [and 9 others]

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

edited by Mercedes Lackey ; stories, excerpts, and poems by Sarah Pinsker, Aliette de Bodard, Usman T. Malik, Matthew Kressel, Eugie Foster, Alyssa Wong, Ursula Vernon, Richard Bowes, Kai Ashante Wilson, Carmen Maria Machado, Tom Crosshill [and 9 others]

the year's best science fiction and fantasy selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA’s anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This year’s Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff VanderMeer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.--, provided by publisher

Introduction / Mercedes Lackey -- About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America -- About the Nebula Awards -- 2016 Nebula Awards final ballot -- Nebula Award Nominees, best short story: A stretch of highway two lanes wide / Sarah Pinkser -- The breath of war / Aliette de Bodard -- The vaporization enthalpy of a peculiar Pakistani family / Usman T. Malik -- The meeker and the all-seeing eye / Matthew Kressel -- When it ends, he catches her / Eugie Foster -- The Fisher Queen / Alyssa Wong -- Nebula Award Winner, best short story: Jackalope wives / Ursula Vernon -- Nebula Award Nominees, best novelette: Sleep walking now and then / Richard Bowes -- The Devil in America / Kai Ashante Wilson -- The Husband stitch / Carmen Maria Machado -- The Magician and Laplace's demon / Tom Croshill -- We are the cloud / Sam J. Miller -- Nebula Award Winner, best novelette -- A guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Nebula Award Nominees, best novella -- Excerpt from Calendrical regression / Lawrence M. Schoen -- Excerpt from The Mothers of Voorhisville / Mary Rickert -- Excerpt from The Regular / Ken Liu -- Excerpt from Grand Jete (The great leap) / Rachel Swirsky -- Excerpt from We are all completely fine / Daryl Gregory -- Nebula Award Winner, best novella -- Yesterday's Kin / Nancy Kress -- Nebula Award Winner, best novel -- Excerpt from Annihilation / Jeff VanderMeer -- Past Nebula Award Winners -- About the editor -- About the cover art