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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) spotlights outstanding science fiction and fantasy with the release of the Nebula Awards Showcase 55. The latest volume in a series published annually since 1966 reprints finalists and winners for the 2019 Nebula Awards as voted by SFWA’s full, senior, and associate members.

This volume’s guest editor is Catherynne M. Valente, author of over forty works of science fiction and fantasy, and winner of the Nebula, Hugo, Lambda, Otherwise, Sturgeon, and Locus Awards.

Valente remarks, “The array of nominated works span just about every corner of the genre as it stood in 2019, an incredible spectrum of voices, perspectives, styles, and tales. I’m thrilled to have been able to help in bringing them together to show the truth—which is that we are living, right now, in a new Golden Age of Science Fiction.” 

The anthology retails for $9.99 in ebook format on most online platforms, including Amazon, Apple, and Kobo, with more retailers coming soon. 

As part of the celebration of the Nebula Award winners, SFWA has partnered with audio-first entertainment studio Podium Audio to adapt, produce, and distribute the Nebula Awards Showcase 55 in audio format as well. Publication of the audio version will be announced at a later date.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction by Catherynne M. Valente
• “The Best of Twines, the Worst of Rhymes: A Tale of Two C++ies (or, Why Game Writing Is Bad and Great)” by Seth Dickinson
• “Queering Chaos” by Foz Meadows
• “Lois McMaster Bujold and Being a Grand Master” by LaShawn Wanak
• “Give the Family My Love” by A. T. Greenblatt*
• “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” by Nibedita Sen
• “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde
• “How the Trick Is Done” by A.C. Wise
• “A Strange Uncertain Light” by G. V. Anderson
• “For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carrol
• “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light” by Mimi Mondal
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker
• “Carpe Glitter” by Cat Rambo*
• “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Excerpt: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker*
• Excerpt: Riverland by Fran Wilde*
• Excerpt: “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang
• Excerpt: “The Haunting of Tram Car 015” by P. Djèlí Clark
• Excerpt: “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone*
• Excerpt: “Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water” by Vylar Kaftan
• Excerpt: “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
• Excerpt: “Catfish Lullaby” by A.C. Wise

[Based on a press release.]