It is ironic but fitting that Mercedes Lackey is the editor of “Nebula Awards Showcase 2016” (Pyr, $18, 412 pages), as Lackey is best known for professionally written but seriously lightweight ...

Who knows what counts as science fiction anymore. If we’re going by the genre’s awards, anyway, what was once the province of space operas and souped-up technology now includes liminal tales that once ...

One of the most famous nebulae, the Horsehead Nebula (pictured right), is named for its resemblance to a horse's head due to a thick cloud of dust accidentally obscuring the bright nebula. This is ...

Ursula K. Le Guin still remembers what it was like to be a science-fiction writer in the Northwest after she moved up from California in 1958. For many years, the Portland writer was part of a triad ...

The 12 stories, two novel excerpts, and three poems collected in this volume, all nominated by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) as the best short fiction of 2014, ...

This thought-provoking sample of Nebula Award nominees and winners spotlights the best of science fiction and fantasy published in 2014. Best Novelette–winner “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i” by ...