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Nebula Awards Showcase 55

Cover of first edition
Editor	Catherynne M. Valente
Cover artist	Lauren Raye Snow
Language	English
Series	Nebula Awards Showcase
Genre	Science fiction and fantasy
Publisher	SFWA, Inc.
Publication date	2021
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback), ebook
Pages	482
ISBN	978-0-9828467-5-9
Preceded by	Nebula Awards Showcase 54

Nebula Awards Showcase #55: Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works edited by American writer Catherynne M. Valente. It was first published in paperback and ebook by SFWA, Inc. in August 2021.

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette, short story, and the Andre Norton Award for the year 2019 (presented in 2020), as well as other material, together with an introduction by the editor. The novel winner, Andre Norton Award winner, novella winner, and novella nominees are represented by excerpts. The non-winning nominees for best novel and the Andre Norton Award are omitted.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Catherynn Valente)
• "The Best of Twines, the Worst of Rhymes: A Tale of Two C++ies (or, Why Game Writing Is Bad and Great)" (Seth Dickinson)
• "Queering Chaos" (Foz Meadows)
• "Lois McMaster Bujold and Being a Grand Master" (LaShawn Wanak)
• "Give the Family My Love" (A. T. Greenblatt)
• "The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" (Karen Osborne)
• "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" (Shiv Ramdas)
• "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" (Nibedita Sen)
• "A Catalog of Storms" (Fran Wilde)
• "How the Trick Is Done" (A. C. Wise)
• "A Strange Uncertain Light" (G. V. Anderson)
• "For He Can Creep" (Siobhan Carrol)
• "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" (Mimi Mondal)
• "The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" (Sarah Pinsker)
• "Carpe Glitter" (Cat Rambo)
• "The Archronology of Love" (Caroline M. Yoachim)
• Excerpt: A Song for a New Day (Sarah Pinsker)
• Excerpt: Riverland (Fran Wilde)
• Excerpt: "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" (Ted Chiang)
• Excerpt: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (P. Djèlí Clark)
• Excerpt: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone)
• Excerpt: "Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water" (Vylar Kaftan)
• Excerpt: The Deep (Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes)
• Excerpt: Catfish Lullaby (A.C. Wise)
• "Biographies"
• "About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)"
• "About the Nebula Awards"

Notes

1. Nebula Awards Showcase 55 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. ^ "Nebula Awards® Showcase 55 now available!" (article on Nebula Awards website).
3. ^ "SFWA's Nebula Awards Showcase 55 Released" (article on File 770: Mike Glyer's news of science fiction fandom.

• Nebula Award anthologies
• 2021 anthologies
• 2020s science fiction works