The Nebula Awards #18

Cover of first edition
Editor	Robert Silverberg
Language	English
Series	The Nebula Awards
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Arbor House
Publication date	1983
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	302
ISBN	0-87795-565-4
Preceded by	Nebula Award Stories Seventeen
Followed by	The Nebula Awards #19

The Nebula Awards #18 is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writer Robert Silverberg. It was first published in hardcover by Arbor House in October 1983; a paperback edition with cover art by Gary LoSasso was issued by Bantam Books in September 1984.^[1]

Summary

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 1983, together with an introduction by the editor and list of past winners. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Robert Silverberg)
• "Souls" (Joanna Russ)
• "No Enemy But Time" (excerpt) (Michael Bishop)
• "The Pope of the Chimps" (Robert Silverberg)
• "Burning Chrome" (William Gibson)
• "Fire Watch" (Connie Willis)
• "Corridors" (Barry N. Malzberg)
• "Another Orphan" (John Kessel)
• "A Letter from the Clearys" (Connie Willis)
• "Swarm" (Bruce Sterling)
• "The Nebula Winners, 1965-1981"

Reception

Barbara A. Bannon in Publishers Weekly rated the award-winning pieces collected in the anthology highly, and noted that "s good as those works are, perhaps equally impressive is the quality of the nominees that didn't win." She complimented Russ's, Malzberg's and Sterling's pieces individually, citing the last as "one of the best stories ever about living with aliens," as well as calling those by Silverberg and Gibson "ine stories" that "complete the volume at the same high level."^[2]

The book was also reviewed by Paul O. Williams in Fantasy Review, August 1984 and Sue Thomason in Paperback Inferno no. 52, 1985.^[1]

Awards

The anthology placed seventeenth in the 1984 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.^[1]

Notes