Nebula Awards 24

Nebula Awards 24 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Michael Bishop, the second of three successive volumes published under his editorship. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in April 1990.[1]

Nebula Awards 24
Cover of first edition
Authoredited by Michael Bishop
Cover artistMichael Stuckey
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Awards
GenreScience fiction short stories
PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich
Publication date
1990
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pagesxv, 302 pp.
ISBN0-15-164932-4
Preceded byNebula Awards 23 
Followed byNebula Awards 25 

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1989 and various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with a profile of 1989 Grand Master award winner Ray Bradbury with some representative pieces by him, tributes to recently deceased authors Clifford D. Simak and Robert A. Heinlein, the three Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1988, a couple other pieces, and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

Reception

Publishers Weekly calls the calls the book a "richly eclectic volume" and a "high-quality collection of short fiction, prose, humor writing and poetry." Receiving particular comment are the stories by Willis, a "high point," Yolen, and Effinger, and the essays by Bradbury and Di Filippo (who "berates the genre for ignoring Dr. Seuss"). [2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Gordon Van Gelder in The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1990, Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1990, and Doug Fratz in Quantum, Spring 1990.[1]

Awards

The book placed seventh in the 1991 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes
  1. Nebula Awards 24 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Review in Publishers Weekly, v. 237, iss. 7, February 16, 1990, p. 71.
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