Nebula Awards Showcase 2006

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r) bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought-provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year's winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.Contents 1 • Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois 8 • The Green Leopard Plague • (2003) • novella by Walter Jon Williams 73 • Basement Magic • (2003) • novelette by Ellen Klages 101 • Dry Bones • (2003) • novelette by William Sanders 123 • The Masters Speak: Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois 127 • Science Fiction Century (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Jack Williamson 130 • The Way It Was (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Robert Silverberg 140 • Teaching the Art (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin 142 • Change and Okay In All Around I See (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss 145 • Then and Now (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Frederik Pohl 152 • The Voluntary State • (2004) • novelette by Christopher Rowe 188 • Grand Master Anne McCaffrey: An Appreciation • (2006) • essay by Jody Lynn Nye 193 • The Ship Who Sang • [The Ship Who Sang] • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey 213 • Coming to Terms • (2004) • shortstory by Eileen Gunn 224 • Embracing-the-New • (2004) • shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum 236 • Paladin of Souls (excerpt) • (2003) • shortfiction by Lois McMaster Bujold 250 • Zora and the Zombie • (2004) • novelette by Andy Duncan 271 • Film: The Year in Review (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Kathy Maio 283 • Travels with My Cats • (2004) • shortstory by Mike Resnick 304 • Just Distance • (2003) • poem by Roger Dutcher 305 • Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks • (2003) • poem by Theodora Goss 309 • The Cookie Monster • (2003) • novella by Vernor Vinge