''Nebula Awards 22'' is an

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of award winning science fiction short works edited by

George Zebrowski George Zebrowski (born December 28, 1945) is an American science fiction writer and editor who has written and edited a number of books, and is a former editor of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lives with author Pame ...

, the third of three successive volumes under his editorship. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in April 1988.

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the

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s for

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and short story for the year 1987 and various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an essay by 1987 Grand Master award winner

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, the two Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1986, a couple other pieces, and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

*"Introduction" (

) *"1986, Reduced from 2000" ssay( Algis Budrys) *" Robot Dreams" est Short Story nominee, 1987(

) *"Seven Steps to Grand Master" ssay(

) *"Tangents" est Short Story winner, 1987( Greg Bear) *"Surviving" est Novelette nominee, 1987( Judith Moffett) *"The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" est Novelette winner, 1987( Kate Wilhelm) *"Listening to Brahms" est Novelette nominee, 1987( Suzy McKee Charnas) *"R & R" est Novella winner, 1987( Lucius Shepard) *"

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" ovelette( Orson Scott Card) *"Newton Sleep" est Novella nominee, 1987( Gregory Benford) *"Rhysling Poetry Award Winners" ssay(

) *"The Neighbor's Wife" hysling Award Short Poem winner, 1986(

Susan Palwick Susan Palwick (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer and associate professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for ''Isaac Asimov's Sc ...

) *"Shipwrecked on Destiny Five" hysling Award Long Poem winner, 1986( Andrew Joron) *"Science Fiction Movies of 1986" ssay( Bill Warren)

Reception

Jim Creighton of the '' St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', reviewing the book along with another Zebrowsky-edited anthology, ''Paper Synergy no. 2'', wrote "The annual collections of Nebula Award winners ... are always great, and this year's edition is made even more notable by the presence of Lucius Shepard's brilliant novella 'R & R.'" He also cited the Bear and Wilhelm pieces as "highly deserving prize winners." The pieces by current Grand Master Asimov (described as "wry") and Card were singled out for particular mention as well, though Creighton laments the omission of " own favorite novelette f Card's "Hatrack River." He noted that " e only problem is that anyone who's really interested in science fiction has probably encountered most of the stories two or three times before ... some first appeared more than two years ago and have already been reprinted several times. If you haven't read them before, though, you have a treat in store." ''Paper Synergy'' was found "not as outstanding as the Nebula collection (naturally enough), houghan all-new and extremely interesting package." His conclusion: " uble applause for Zebrowski."Creighton, Jim. "Applause for Collections of the Best in Science Fiction" (review). ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', Mar. 27, 1988, p. C5. The anthology was also reviewed by Tom Easton in ''

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'' v. 108, no. 13, Mid-December, 1988.

Awards

The book placed twenty-sixth in the 1989 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.

Notes

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