Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0982846742 Anthology of 11 stories and several novel excerpts, first published in 2018, including the winners of the Nebula Awards given out in 2019. There are also two essays original to the book.
This volume marks a change in publisher and in title format, following
Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which lacked novel excerpts.
Authors include Mary Robinette Kowal, Aliette de Bodard, Brooke Bolander, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, Andy Duncan, Sarah Pinsker, and Martha Wells.
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INTRODUCING BUTLER TO NEW READERS. Elizabeth Connor describes the work of “repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism” in “How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves” at
Literary Hub.
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