Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (Nebula Awards, #12)

With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology. This collection of nominees for 2010’s Nebula Awards includes all of the prior year’s most celebrated stories, and will be published in time for the 2011 Nebula Awards in May, 2011. 2009’s award winners, announced in May 2010, include Kage Baker’s novella “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s,” Eugie Foster’s novelette “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,” Kij Johnson’s short story “Spar,” plus Paolo Bacigalupi’s novelette, “The Gambler.” Contents 23 • Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela • (2009) • shortstory by Saladin Ahmed 37 • I Remember the Future • (2008) • shortstory by Michael A. Burstein 50 • Non-Zero Probabilities • (2009) • shortstory by N. K. Jemisin 59 • Going Deep • [Mariska Volochkova] • (2009) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly 75 • Bridesicle • (2009) • shortstory by Will McIntosh 92 • Spar • (2009) • shortstory by Kij Johnson 103 • Neal Barrett, Jr.: Writer of Excellence, and my Brother • essay by Joe R. Lansdale 106 • Getting Dark • (2006) • shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr. 121 • The Gambler • (2008) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi 145 • Vinegar Peace (or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage) • (2008) • novelette by Michael Bishop (aka Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage) 166 • I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said • (2009) • novelette by Richard Bowes 194 • Divining Light • (2008) • novelette by Ted Kosmatka 232 • A Memory of Wind • (2009) • novelette by Rachel Swirsky 264 • Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast • (2009) • novelette by Eugie Foster 289 • SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master: Joe Haldeman • essay by Mark Kreighbaum and Connie Willis 294 • A !Tangled Web • (1981) • novelette by Joe Haldeman 319 • The Women of Nell Gwynne's • (2009) • novella by Kage Baker 385 • Song for an Ancient City • (2008) • poem by Amal El-Mohtar 387 • Search • (2008) • poem by Geoffrey A. Landis 389 • Fireflies • (2008) • poem by Geoffrey A. Landis