4 thoughts on “Nebulas”

1. Alas, I will have to wait until next year’s Locus nominations to be able to put some of the fine stories from TNSO on a ballot of any kind.

   I think that you did a really good job. Anthologies by their nature are almost always hit or miss to an extent. TNSO has more hits than misses by a goodly margin.

2. i’ve been reading the dozois yearly anthologies since #4 or 5…and almost every year he reports that others believe the end of science fiction is near…or underway. i don’t know….maybe i’m too easy…but i find TOO MUCH good stuff to read every year both in short format and novels. i can’t keep up. i am a nurse, read about 4-5 books a month and a bunch of short fiction….seems to me there is so much great fiction out there we MUST be in a golden age…..i’m no ‘critic’ but 60-7-% of what i read gets a “star” rating when i’m done, which means it either gave me a chill or produced an emotion that makes me think the story was great.

3. I don’t think the end of science fiction is near, nor do I think it’s underway. I do think we’ve got some kind of change in the kind of science fiction being written coming down the pipeline, but that’s evolution not death. As to a Golden Age, I read pretty deeply in the field, and the impression I have it that there’s a LOT of stuff out there, but, even though there’s enough good stuff to keep any single reader busy, I’m not sure it’s enough to make for a Golden Age.

4. I cannot vote, unfortunately, but I must admit that it would thrill me to see “The Last and Only, or Mr. Moscowitz becomes French” ~Peter S. Beagle, “The Drowned Life” ~Jeffrey Ford, “She-Creatures” ~Margo Lanagan, and/or “The Transformation of Targ” ~Jack Dann & Paul Brandon from Eclipse One on the nominations list.