Nebula Winners Fifteen Explained

Nebula Winners Fifteen
Author:edited by Frank Herbert
Cover Artist:Egon Lauterberg
Country:United States
Language:English
Series:The Nebula Awards
Genre:Science fiction
Publisher:Harper & Row 1981 (US)
W. H. Allen 1982 (UK)
Media Type:Print (hardcover)
Pages:xiv, 223
Isbn:0-06-014830-6
Preceded By:Nebula Winners Fourteen
Followed By:Nebula Award Stories Sixteen

Nebula Winners Fifteen is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Frank Herbert. It was first published in hardcover by Harper & Row in April 1981. The first British edition was published in hardcover by W. H. Allen in April 1982. Paperback editions followed from Star in the U.K. in January 1983 and Bantam Books in the U.S. in March 1983.

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1980 and a few other pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor and appendices. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

Reception

Tom Staicar in Amazing, after briefly detailing the contents, summed up the anthology as a "must-buy collection each year."[1]

The anthology was also reviewed by Theodore Sturgeon in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1981, Ian Watson in Foundation #23, October 1981, and Martyn Taylor in Paperback Inferno v. 7, no. 3, 1983.

Awards

The anthology placed twenty-sixth in the 1982 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.

Notes and References

  1. Staicar, Tom. "The Interstellar Connection: Book Reviews." In Amazing v. 28, no. 3, Nov. 1981, p. 7.