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Nebula Awards Showcase 54

Cover of first edition
Editor	Nibedita Sen
Language	English
Series	Nebula Awards Showcase
Genre	Science fiction and fantasy
Publisher	SFWA, Inc.
Publication date	2020
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback), ebook
Pages	ix, 469
ISBN	978-0-9828467-3-5
OCLC	1228902796
Preceded by	Nebula Awards Showcase 2019
Followed by	Nebula Awards Showcase 55

Nebula Awards Showcase 54 is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works edited by Bengali writer Nibedita Sen. It was first published in trade paperback by SFWA, Inc. in November 2020, followed by an ebook edition from the same publisher in December of the same year.

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2018 (presented in 2019), as well as other material, together with an introduction by the editor. The novel winner, novella winner, and novella nominees are represented by excerpts. The non-winning nominees for best novel and one of the nominees for best short story (Richard Fox's "Going Dark") are omitted.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Nibedita Sen)
• "It’s Dangerous to Go Alone" (Kate Dollarhyde)
• "Into the Spider-verse: A Classic Origin Story in Bold New Color" (Brandon O'Brien)
• "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" (P. Djèlí Clark)
• "Interview for the End of the World" (Rhett C. Bruno)
• "And Yet" (A. T. Greenblatt)
• "A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (Alix E. Harrow)
• "The Court Magician" (Sarah Pinsker)
• "The Only Harmless Great Thing" (Brooke Bolander)
• "The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" (Tina Connolly)
• "An Agent of Utopia" (Andy Duncan)
• "The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Births" (José Pablo Iriarte)
• "The Rule of Three" (Lawrence M. Schoen)
• "Messenger" (R.R. Virdi & Yudhanjaya Wijeratne)
• Excerpt: "The Tea Master and the Detective" (Aliette de Bodard)
• Excerpt: "Fire Ant" (Jonathan P. Brazee)
• Excerpt: "The Black God’s Drums" (P. Djèlí Clark)
• Excerpt: "Alice Payne Arrives" (Kate Heartfield)
• Excerpt: "Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach" (Kelly Robson)
• Excerpt: "Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries" (Martha Wells)
• Excerpt: The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• "Biographies"

Reception

John ONeill on blackgate.com notes "The Nebula Awards Showcase is one of the most auspicious and long running anthology series in science fiction" and that "his year's volume ... hews pretty close to tradition ... and contains as many of last year's Nebula Award winners and nominees as they could cram between two covers." He highlights the fact that "t's edited by a rising star in the industry" and "is unusual in that it's the first to be published directly by SFWA (technically SFWA, Inc, which as far as I know was created solely to publish this book."

Notes

1. Nebula Awards Showcase 54 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. ^ "Nebula Awards Showcase 54 coming soon!" (article on Nebula Awards website).
3. ^ Sen, Nibedita. "The Big Idea: Nibedita Sen" (guest post on John Scalzi's Whatever blog).
4. ^ "The Nebula Awards Showcase #54 Released" (article on File 770: Mike Glyer's news of science fiction fandom.
5. ONeill, John. "New Treasures: Nebula Awards Showcase 54 edited by Nibedita Sen." On blackgate.com, Dec. 1, 2020.

• Nebula Award anthologies
• 2020 anthologies
• 2020s science fiction works