Search Worlds Without End

Works by Nicola Griffith, Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Levinson, Jack Vance, and many others grace this volume of "the closest thing SF has to a literary yearbook" (Locus).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1998) - essay by Jack Dann
• Keeping Up - essay by Elizabeth Hand
• Must Have Been Something I Ate - essay by Lucius Shepard
• Interactive Science Fiction: 1996 - essay by Keith Ferrell
• The British Scene (Nebula Awards 32) - essay by Ian Watson
• The Road to 1996 - essay by Sean McMullen and Terry Dowling
• Who Is Killing Science Fiction? - essay by Norman Spinrad
• Abandoned Cities - essay by Robert Frazier
• Must and Shall - (1995) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• In the Shade of the Slowboat Man - (1996) - shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith
• Da Vinci Rising - (1995) - novella by Jack Dann
• Variants of the Obsolete - (1995) - poem by Marge Simon
• Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation - (1995) - poem by Bruce Boston
• A Birthday - (1995) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• The Chronology Protection Case - (1995) - novelette by Paul Levinson
• Jack Vance: Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy - (1997) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• My Friend Jack - (1998) - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Men Return - (1957) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Yaguara - (1994) - novella by Nicola Griffith
• Science Fiction Films of 1996 - (1998) - essay by Bill Warren
• Five Fucks - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• Lifeboat on a Burning Sea - (1995) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Selected Titles from the 1996 Preliminary Nebula Ballot - (1998) - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - (1998) - essay by uncredited
• About the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - (1998) - essay by uncredited

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy-Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jack Dann
• The Mask of the Rex - (2002) - novelette by Richard Bowes
• The Last of the O-Forms - (2002) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - Introduction - essay by Jack Dann
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - Deep in the Heart of the State of the Art - essay by Bruce Sterling
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - New Weird - essay by China Miéville
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The New Space Opera - essay by Paul J. McAuley
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The Interstitial Arts Foundation - essay by Ellen Kushner
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The Romantic Underground: An Exploration of a Nonexistent and Self-Denying Nonmovement - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• Grandma - (2002) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Grand Master Robert Silverberg: The Stochastic Writer - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Lambing Season - (2002) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• 0wnz0red - (2002) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Film: The Year in Review - essay by Lucius Shepard
• Knapsack Poems - (2002) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• Coraline (excerpt) - (2002) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Tripping with the Alchemist - (2003) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Author Emeritus Charles L. Harness: Wielder of Light - essay by George Zebrowski
• Quarks at Appomattox - (1983) - shortstory by Charles L. Harness
• Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs - (2003) - novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• Potherb Gardening - (2002) - poem by Ruth Berman
• Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy - (2002) - poem by Charles M. Saplak and Mike Allen
• Goodbye to All That - (2003) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Story Behind the Book: A Personal View - essay by Elizabeth Moon
• The Speed of Dark (excerpt) - (2002) - shortfiction by Elizabeth Moon
• The Empire of Ice Cream - (2003) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford