Nebula Awards 25 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Michael Bishop, the third of three successive volumes published under his editorship. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in April 1991. Summary The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 1990 and various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with the three Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1989, a couple other stories, and an introduction by the editor. Not all nominees for the various awards are included. Contents "Introduction" (Michael Bishop) "What Is Science Fiction?" [essay] (Damon Knight) "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" [Best Short Story winner, 1990] (Geoffrey A. Landis) "The Avalanche: A View on the SF and Fantasy Novels of 1989" [essay] (Ian Watson) "Snake Charm" (The Healer's War, Chapter 16) [Best Novel winner, 1990] (Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) "Some Reflections on The Healer's War" [essay] (Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) "Solace" [short story] (Gardner Dozois) "The Mountains of Mourning" [Best Novella winner, 1990] (Lois McMaster Bujold) "Rhysling Award Winners" [essay] (Michael Bishop) "Salinity" [Rhysling Award, Best Short Poem winner, 1989] (Robert Frazier) "In the Darkened Hours" [Rhysling Award, Best Long Poem co-winner, 1989] (Bruce Boston) "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" [Rhysling Award, Best Long Poem co-winner, 1989] (John M. Ford) "For I Have Touched the Sky" [Best Novelette nominee, 1990] (Mike Resnick) "Vulgar Art" [essay] (Orson Scott Card) "The Ommatidium Miniatures" [Best Short Story nominee, 1990] (Michael Bishop) "The Great Nebula Sweep" [essay] (Paul Di Filippo) "At the Rialto" [Best Novelette winner, 1990] (Connie Willis) "The Exile's Paradigm" [essay] (Richard Grant) "In Blue" [novella] (John Crowley) "Year of the Bat: Science Fiction Movies of 1989" [essay] (Bill Warren) "About the Nebula Awards" "Past Nebula Award Winners" Reception David E. Jones in the Chicago Tribune writes "for those who would rather nibble gourmet hors d'oeuvres than plunge into [the] full meal" of a novel, Nebula Awards 25 is "chock full of tasty tidbits," with the pieces by Landis, Resnick and Willis "[o]f particular note." Glenn Grant in the Gazette calls the anthology a "itself a winner," a "beautifully designed collection of fiction, with the added bonus of lively critical debates." He also perceives some flaws; "[a]ll the fiction in the book has merit, as one would expect, but I have to wonder at some of