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Nebula Award Stories Eight
First edition (US)
Editor	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Luba Litwak
Language	English
Series	Nebula Award Stories
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Harper & Row (US) Gollancz (UK)
Publication date	1973
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	xx, 248
ISBN	0-06-010151-2
Preceded by	Nebula Award Stories 7
Followed by	Nebula Award Stories 9

Nebula Award Stories Eight is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in hardcover in November 1973, in the United States by Harper & Row and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz. The British edition bore the variant title Nebula Award Stories 8. Paperback editions followed from Berkley Medallion in the U.S. in September 1975, and Panther in the U.K. in the same year; both paperback editions adopted the British version of the title. The book has also been published in German.^[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1973 and nonfiction pieces related to the Nebula and Hugo Awards, together with an introduction by the editor. All three of the winning stories were included, but only a selection of the non-winning pieces nominated for the awards.

"Introduction: So Why Aren't We Rich?" (Isaac Asimov)
"A Meeting with Medusa" [Best Novella winner, 1973] (Arthur C. Clarke)
"Shaffery Among the Immortals" [Best Short Story nominee, 1973] (Frederik Pohl)
"Patron of the Arts" [Best Novelette nominee, 1973] (William Rotsler)
"When It Changed" [Best Short Story winner, 1973] (Joanna Russ)
"On the Downhill Side" [Best Short Story nominee, 1973] (Harlan Ellison)
"The Fifth Head of Cerberus" [Best Novella nominee, 1973] (Gene Wolfe)
"When We Went to See the End of the World" [Best Short Story nominee, 1973] (Robert Silverberg)
"Goat Song" [Best Novelette winner, 1973] (Poul Anderson)
"The Nebula Awards"
"The Hugo Awards"

Reception

Kirkus Reviews assessed the anthology as "[f]irst-rate," stating it "deserves an award itself," and commenting individually on all the pieces contained except the Pohl. In particular, Rotsler is praised for "creat[ing] a new science fictional art form," and the reviewer notes that Clarke "finds wonder in the old man confronts-Jupiter theme," Russ "writes powerfully of a society of women," Ellison "spins a delicate fantasy of salvation," and Wolfe "provides a complex and subtle variation on the ... subject of clones."^[2]

P. Schuyler Miller in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact praises editor Asimov's introduction as "thoughtful ... as good an analysis as we have had of what science fiction is, how it is fundamentally different from other genre fiction ... and why it stands a good chance of surviving when fiction per se seems on its way out." He feels the appendix renders the book "a valuable reference" and comments on the pieces by Russ, Ellison ("one of the author's new, lovely, and 'atypical' ... cycle of stories about New Orleans"), and Wolfe ("recommended enthusiastically"), while noting the remaining ones.^[3]

The book was also reviewed by W. N. MacPherson in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, issue #7, September 1975, and Richard Delap in Delap's F & SF Review, v. 1, no. 7, October 1975.^[1]

Awards

The collection placed tenth in the 1974 Locus Poll Award for Best Reprint Anthology/Collection.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Nebula Award Stories Eight title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
^ Kirkus Reviews (review), Nov. 1, 1973.
^ Miller, P. Schuyler. Review in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact v. 93, no. 4, June 1974, pages 166-168.

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)
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
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Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)

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