title: Nebula Awards 27: Sffwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Nebula Awards Showcase)
author: James Morrow
description: This weighty collection brings together stories, poems, novellas and essays of the high quality that has come to be associated with the Nebula Awards. The range is wide as these authors show the maturing strides that science fiction and fantasy writing have been taking lately. Among the highlights are Allan Brennert's story about an American soldier killed in Vietnam who finds himself inhabiting the spirit-world afterlife of indigenous Vietnamese culture; Brennert's descriptions of that grotesque world are haunting. Karen Fowler's story also takes up the theme of Vietnam, this time through a frightening tale of bubonic plague spread by the U.S. military. Perhaps the best story is Nancy Kress's, about people who are genetically engineered to need no sleep. This small group, with a third more time to learn and do, achieve more than anyone else and eventually become the targets of bigoted fear from those who need shut-eye. Essays on fantasy films of 1991 and an SF reaction to postmodern literary criticism add a nice touch, as does the poetry. Fans will particularly appreciate a series of tributes to Isaac Asimov, who died in 1992. Morrow wrote Only Begotten Daughter. <BR>Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: NEBULA AWARDS 28
  E D ITED  BY
  J A M E S
  M O R R O W
  SFWA’S CHOICES FOR THE BEST 
  SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 
  OF THE YEAR
  WORKS BY
  Poul Anderson * Gregory Benford * Michael Bishop 
  John Clute * Paul Di Filippo * S. N. Dyer - David Hartwell 
  Stephen King - Nancy Kress * Nick Lowe - David Lunde 
  James Morrow - Frederik Pohl - Kim Stanley Robinson 
  Pamela Sargent - Connie Willis
  
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  NEBULA AWARDS 28
  Superlative science fiction probing the 
  very nature of science
  In surveying the finalists for the 1992 Nebula 
  Awards, James Morrow notes that the vast major­
  ity of the fiction implicitly or explicitly grapples 
  with the question, Is science good or bad?
  Gregory Benford, for example, offers a glimpse 
  into the rarefied world of research physicists; Kim 
  Stanley Robinson shows how scientists can 
  become prey to hoaxes from without and wishful 
  thinking from within; S. N. Dyer probes the prob­
  lem of doctors’ fallibility; and Michael Bishop 
  explores the crypt