Nebula Awards Showcase 56

Nebula Awards Showcase 56
Cover of first edition
EditorSFWA, Inc.
Cover artistLauren Raye Snow (Illustration), Kate Baker (Design), Noah K. Sturdevant (Interior layout)
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Awards Showcase
GenreScience fiction and fantasy
PublisherSFWA, Inc.
Publication date
December 28, 2024
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePaperback (print), ebook
Pages482
ISBN978-1-958243-00-8
Preceded byNebula Awards Showcase 55 

Nebula Awards Showcase #56 is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works published by SFWA, Inc. covering a selection of Nebula Award winners and nominees presented in 2021. The anthology had been expected to be published in 2021, but was released at the end of 2024.[1] According to the SFWA press release, "this volume represents a change in strategy for the organization that will result in a speed-up of our processes. This and future volumes will be edited by SFWA's own Publications Committee".[1]

Delay

Most Nebula Awards Showcases follow the pattern of being published the year following the award period (i.e. Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (#42) covers the 2007 Nebula Awards and was published in 2008) with few exceptions.

SFWA expected to release volume 56 by the end of 2021,[2] but the volume was delayed; announced as "nearing completion" on February 17, 2024.[3] The official release was confirmed on December 18, 2024.

Contents

Introduction by Cat Rambo

I. Essay

Nebula Winner: Best Game Writing

Cerberus is the Family Dog: Adapting Greek Myth in Hades by Greg Kasavin

The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

The Good Place: Life, Death, and the Meaning of Everything by Kelly Robson

II. Short Story

Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math by Aimee Picchi (Daily Science Fiction)

Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson (Uncanny Magazine)

The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford (Asimov's Science Fiction)

A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Solaris)

My Country Is a Ghost by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine)

Nebula Winner: Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots)

III. Novelette

Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super by A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine)

The Pill by Meg Elison (PM Press)

Shadow Prisons by Caroline M. Yoachim (Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press)

Stepsister by Leah Cypess (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

Nebula Winner: Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com)

Where You Linger by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Uncanny Magazine)

IV. Novella

Finna by Nino Cipri (Tor.com)

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)

Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Aurelia Leo)

Nebula Winner: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor.com)

Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov (Metaphorosis)

V. Novel

Nebula Winner: Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tor.com)

VI. Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction)

Andre Norton Nebula Award Winner for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)

Contributor Biographies

Notes

  1. ^ a b SFWA, Inc. (December 18, 2024). "Nebula Awards Showcase 56 is on its way". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
  2. ^ SFWA Publications Team. "Michi Trota Resigns as SFWA Editor-in-Chief." Announcement at sfwa.org, July 21, 2021.
  3. ^ "Nebula Awards Showcase 56 nearing completion." Announcement at nebulas.sfwa.org, February 6, 2024.