Nebula Award Stories 7

Nebula Award Stories 7 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. It was first published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Gollancz in November 1972. The first American edition was published by Harper & Row in January 1973; a Science Fiction Book Club edition, also in hardcover, followed in March of the same year. Paperback editions followed from Harrow Books in the U.S. in 1973, and Panther in the U.K. in December 1974. The American editions bore the variant title Nebula Award Stories Seven. The book has also been published in German.[1]

Nebula Award Stories 7
Cover of first edition
Authoredited by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Award Stories
GenreScience fiction
PublisherGollancz
Publication date
1972
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages320
ISBN0-575-01591-8
Preceded byNebula Award Stories 6 
Followed byNebula Award Stories Eight 

Summary

The book collects pieces published in 1971 that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1972 and nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor. One of the non-winning pieces nominated for Best Novelette was omitted, and two stories not nominated for any of the awards were included.

Contents

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, called the book "one of the best" of the SFWA annual anthologies, "not only for good stories (which have been surpassed before), but for the 'bonus' chapters," the essays by Knight, Anderson and Sturgeon, which "make the book outstanding." He highlights the Anderson and MacLean stories as "a pair of blockbusters," as well as calling attention to Silverberg's contribution. He notes that "[m]ore of the others stories are fantasies and [genre] borderliners than is usual with these anthologies," describing their content in brief before turning to the Pangborn, Dozois and Buck pieces, with which he seems more taken.[2]

Notes
  1. Nebula Award Stories 7 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Miller, P. Schuyler. Review in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact v. 91, no. 5, July 1973, pp. 170-171.
gollark: The "ideal" way would be for me to actually understand how minmax/α-β-pruning algorithms work, and just implement those instead of/augmenting the "MCTS" it uses right now.
gollark: I mean, that's not really the right question.
gollark: Are you a neuroscientist now?
gollark: I don't want to hardcode specific cases.
gollark: Repeatedly, even.
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