Nebula Award Stories 5
First edition (UK)
Authoredited by James Blish
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNebula Award Stories
GenreScience fiction
PublisherGollancz (UK)
Doubleday (US)
Publication date
1970
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages216 pp.
ISBN0-575-00579-3
Preceded byNebula Award Stories 4 
Followed byNebula 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.

Contents

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

  1. 1 2 Nebula Award Stories 5 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ↑ Miller, P. Schuyler Miller. Review Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, v.87, no. 3, May 1971, pp. 164-165.
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