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The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The editors selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) are John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, both highly acclaimed not only for their own award-winning fiction but also as coeditors of three anthologies: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, and The Secret History of Science Fiction. Stories and excerpts by Harlan Ellison™, Kij Johnson, Chris Barzak, Eric James Stone, Rachel Swirsky, Geoff Landis, Shweta Narayan, Adam Troy-Castro, James Tiptree Jr., Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, Howard Hendrix, Ann K. Schwader, Connie Willis, Terry Pratchett, and more.

Table of Contents:

• In Which Your Editors Consider the Nebula Awards of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - essay by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• Ponies - (2010) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• The Sultan of the Clouds - shortfiction by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Map of Seventeen - (2010) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
• And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• In the Astronaut Asylum - (2009) - poem by Samantha Henderson and Kendall Evans
• Pishaach - (2010) - shortfiction by Shweta Narayan
• Excerpt from Blackout/All Clear - [Blackout (Connie Willis)] - shortfiction by Connie Willis
• Bumbershoot - poem by Howard V. Hendrix
• Arvies - shortfiction by Adam-Troy Castro
• How Interesting: a Tiny Man - (2010) - shortfiction by Harlan Ellison
• The Jaguar House, in Shadow - (2010) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• The Green Book - (2010) - shortstory by Amal El-Mohtar
• That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made - (2010) - novelette by Eric James Stone
• Excerpt From I Shall Wear Midnight - shortfiction by Terry Pratchett
• To Theia - (2009) - poem by Ann K. Schwader
• The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window - (2010) - novella by Rachel Swirsky
• 2011 Nebula Awards Nominees and Honorees - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Winners - essay by uncredited
• About the Cover (Nebula Awards Showcase 2012) - essay by uncredited
• About the Editors (Nebula Awards Showcase 2012) - essay by uncredited