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Nebula Winners Fifteen

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Nebula Winners Fifteen
First edition (US)
Authoredited by Frank Herbert
Cover artistEgon Lauterberg
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Nebula Awards
GenreScience fiction
PublisherHarper & Row 1981 (US)
W. H. Allen 1982 (UK)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pagesxiv, 223
ISBN0-06-014830-6
Preceded byNebula Winners Fourteen 
Followed byNebula Award Stories Sixteen 

Nebula Winners Fifteen is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Frank Herbert. It was first published in hardcover by Harper & Row in April 1981. The first British edition was published in hardcover by W. H. Allen in April 1982. Paperback editions followed from Star in the U.K. in January 1983 and Bantam Books in the U.S. in March 1983.[1]

Summary

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The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1980 and a few other pieces related to the awards, together with an introduction by the editor and appendices. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents

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Reception

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Tom Staicar in Amazing, after briefly detailing the contents, summed up the anthology as a "must-buy collection each year."[2]

The anthology was also reviewed by Theodore Sturgeon in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1981, Ian Watson in Foundation #23, October 1981, and Martyn Taylor in Paperback Inferno v. 7, no. 3, 1983.[1]

Awards

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The anthology placed twenty-sixth in the 1982 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Nebula Winners Fifteen title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ Staicar, Tom. "The Interstellar Connection: Book Reviews." In Amazing v. 28, no. 3, Nov. 1981, p. 7.