Nebula Awards Showcase 56
 Cover of first edition | |
| Editor | SFWA, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Lauren Raye Snow (Illustration), Kate Baker (Design), Noah K. Sturdevant (Interior layout) |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nebula Awards Showcase |
| Genre | Science fiction and fantasy |
| Publisher | SFWA, Inc. |
Publication date | December 28, 2024 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Paperback (print), ebook |
| Pages | 482 |
| ISBN | 978-1-958243-00-8 |
| Preceded by | Nebula Awards Showcase 55 |
Nebula Awards Showcase #56 is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works published by SFWA, Inc. covering a selection of Nebula Award winners and nominees presented in 2021. The anthology had been expected to be published in 2021, but was released at the end of 2024.[1] According to the SFWA press release, "this volume represents a change in strategy for the organization that will result in a speed-up of our processes. This and future volumes will be edited by SFWA's own Publications Committee".[1]
Delay
[edit]Most Nebula Awards Showcases follow the pattern of being published the year following the award period (i.e. Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (#42) covers the 2007 Nebula Awards and was published in 2008) with few exceptions.
SFWA expected to release volume 56 by the end of 2021,[2] but the volume was delayed; announced as "nearing completion" on February 17, 2024.[3] The official release was confirmed on December 18, 2024.
Contents
[edit]Introduction by Cat Rambo
I. Essay
Nebula Winner: Best Game Writing
Cerberus is the Family Dog: Adapting Greek Myth in Hades by Greg Kasavin
The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
The Good Place: Life, Death, and the Meaning of Everything by Kelly Robson
II. Short Story
Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math by Aimee Picchi (Daily Science Fiction)
Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson (Uncanny Magazine)
The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford (Asimov's Science Fiction)
A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Solaris)
My Country Is a Ghost by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine)
Nebula Winner: Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots)
III. Novelette
Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super by A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine)
The Pill by Meg Elison (PM Press)
Shadow Prisons by Caroline M. Yoachim (Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press)
Stepsister by Leah Cypess (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Nebula Winner: Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com)
Where You Linger by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny Magazine)
IV. Novella
Finna by Nino Cipri (Tor.com)
The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Aurelia Leo)
Nebula Winner: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor.com)
Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov (Metaphorosis)
V. Novel
Nebula Winner: Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tor.com)
VI. Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction)
Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
Contributor Biographies
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b SFWA, Inc. (December 18, 2024). "Nebula Awards Showcase 56 is on its way". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
- ^ SFWA Publications Team. "Michi Trota Resigns as SFWA Editor-in-Chief." Announcement at sfwa.org, July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Nebula Awards Showcase 56 nearing completion." Announcement at nebulas.sfwa.org, February 6, 2024.