Issue #38, January/February 2021
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Science fiction and fantasy magazine with original and reprint fiction, non-fiction essays, interviews, and poetry. This issue includes fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Paul Cornell, Christopher Caldwell, and Marissa Lingen; a reprint from Del Sandeen; essays from John Wiswell, Octavia Cade, Katherine Cross, and Aidan Moher; interviews with Miyuki Jane Pinckard and Paul Cornell; and poetry. Cover art by Nilah Magruder. E-book subscribers receive the complete ebook on the first Tuesday of the month. Online readers will receive the first half of the magazine on the first Tuesday of the month. The second half will be available the first Tuesday of the following month. Also available free on the
It’s always seemed to me that John Joseph Adams’s
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series, now in its sixth volume, has served a somewhat different if equally important purpose than the more traditional year’s best volumes which have been a staple of SF publishing for more than 70 years. While those volumes have historically been SF’s way of presenting itself
to itself (always with the hopes of drawing a broader readership among those who simply want to check in on SF from time to time), Adams’s annual volumes are part of the “Best American” series of focused anthologies which began with
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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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) spotlights some of the best science fiction and fantasy published in 2018 with the release of
The Nebula Awards Showcase 54.This latest volume of the prestigious anthology series contains works that were nominated for or won the 54th Annual Nebula Awards, as voted by SFWA members. Nibedita Sen, a Hugo, Nebula, and Astounding Award-nominated writer and editor, edited the volume and contributed an introduction.
The Showcase’s table of contents includes the following material (winners are noted by an asterisk):
Introduction by Nibedita Sen
“Into the Spider-verse: A Classic Origin Story in Bold New Color” by Brandon O’Brien