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Nebula Award Stories 5 - Wikipedia

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Nebula Award Stories 5
First edition (UK)
Author	edited by James Blish
Language	English
Series	Nebula Award Stories
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Gollancz (UK) Doubleday (US)
Publication date	1970
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	216 pp.
ISBN	0-575-00579-3
Preceded by	Nebula Award Stories 4
Followed by	Nebula Award Stories 6

Nebula Award Stories 5 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by James Blish. It was first published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Gollancz in November 1970. The first American edition was published by Doubleday in December of the same year. Paperback editions followed from Pocket Books in the U.S. in January 1972, and Panther in the U.K. in December 1972. The American editions bore the variant title Nebula Award Stories Five. The book has also been published in German.^[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces published in 1969 that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1970 and nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor. Not all non-winning pieces nominated for the awards were included.

"Introduction" (James Blish)
"A Boy and His Dog" [Best Novella winner, 1970] (Harlan Ellison)
"Nine Lives" [Best Novelette nominee, 1970] (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"Passengers" [Best Short Story winner, 1970] (Robert Silverberg)
"Not Long Before the End" [Best Short Story nominee, 1970] (Larry Niven)
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" [Best Novelette winner, 1970] (Samuel R. Delany)
"The Man Who Learned Loving" [Best Short Story nominee, 1970] (Theodore Sturgeon)
"The SF Novel in 1969" [essay] (Darko Suvin)
"Short SF in 1968" [essay] (Alexei Panshin)

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller, writing in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, called the anthology "less appealing than in most previous years—not because the stories are poorer, but because you have probably read most of them in other anthologies." For those deciding they have already "read too much of the book," he recommends the previous year's volume, which he notes is now out in paperback. After surveying the already-anthologized pieces and where they have appeared, Miller comments on the "one story which may be strange," the Sturgeon piece, "a point-of-view story, and the point it makes is one that even the New Left must call relevant. They may not like it." He also highlights the essays summing up the year's SF novels and short stories.^[2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Paul Walker in Science Fiction Review no. 43, 1971, Alfred J. van der Poorten in SF Commentary no. 20, 1971, and Ted Pauls in The WSFA Journal no. 77, June-July 1971.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Nebula Award Stories 5 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
^ Miller, P. Schuyler Miller. Review Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, v.87, no. 3, May 1971, pp. 164-165.

Nebula Awards Showcase

Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) (Damon Knight)
Nebula Award Stories Two (1967) (Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison)
Nebula Award Stories 3 (1968) (Roger Zelazny)
Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) (Poul Anderson)
Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) (James Blish)
Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971) (Clifford D. Simak)
Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972) (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973) (Isaac Asimov)
Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974) (Kate Wilhelm)
Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) (James E. Gunn)
Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Nebula Winners Twelve (1978) (Gordon R. Dickson)
Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) (Samuel R. Delany)
Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) (Frederik Pohl)
Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) (Frank Herbert)
Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) (Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr)
Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983) (Joe Haldeman)
The Nebula Awards #18 (1983) (Robert Silverberg)
The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) (Marta Randall)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985) (George Zebrowski)
Nebula Awards 21 (1986) (George Zebrowski)
Nebula Awards 22 (1988) (George Zebrowski)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989) (Michael Bishop)
Nebula Awards 24 (1990) (Michael Bishop)
Nebula Awards 25 (1991) (Michael Bishop)
Nebula Awards 26 (1992) (James Morrow)
Nebula Awards 27 (1993) (James Morrow)
Nebula Awards 28 (1994) (James Morrow)
Nebula Awards 29 (1995) (Pamela Sargent)
Nebula Awards 30 (1996) (Pamela Sargent)
Nebula Awards 31 (1997) (Pamela Sargent)
Nebula Awards 32 (1998) (Jack Dann)
Nebula Awards 33 (1999) (Connie Willis)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) (Gregory Benford)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001) (Robert Silverberg)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) (Nancy Kress)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) (Vonda N. McIntyre)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) (Jack Dann)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006) (Gardner Dozois)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) (Mike Resnick)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) (Ben Bova)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (2009) (Ellen Datlow)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) (Bill Fawcett)
The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) (Kevin J. Anderson)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) (James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014) (Kij Johnson)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2015) (Greg Bear)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) (Mercedes Lackey)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) (Julie E. Czerneda)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) (Jane Yolen)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019) (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)

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