Nebula Award Stories Eight

Nebula Award Stories Eight

Cover of first edition
Author	edited by Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Luba Litwak
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1973
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	xx, 248 pp.
ISBN	0-06-010151-2
Preceded by	Nebula Award Stories 7
Followed by	Nebula Award Stories 9

Nebula Award Stories Eight is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in hardcover in November 1973, in the United States by Harper & Row and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz. The British edition bore the variant title Nebula Award Stories 8. Paperback editions followed from Berkley Medallion in the U.S. in September 1975, and Panther in the U.K. in the same year; both paperback editions adopted the British version of the title. The book has also been published in German.

The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1973 and nonfiction pieces related to the Nebula and Hugo Awards, together with an introduction by the editor. All three of the winning stories were included, but only a selection of the non-winning pieces nominated for the awards.

Contents

• "Introduction: So Why Aren't We Rich?" (Isaac Asimov)
• "A Meeting with Medusa" [Best Novella winner, 1973] (Arthur C. Clarke)
• "Shaffery Among the Immortals" [Best Short Story nominee, 1973] (Frederik Pohl)
• "Patron of the Arts" [Best Novelette nominee, 1973] (William Rotsler)
• "When It Changed" [Best Short Story winner, 1973] (Joanna Russ)
• "On the Downhill Side" [Best Short Story nominee, 1973] (Harlan Ellison)
• "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" [Best Novella nominee, 1973] (Gene Wolfe)
• "When We Went to See the End of the World" [Best Short Story nominee, 1973] (Robert Silverberg)
• "Goat Song" [Best Novelette winner, 1973] (Poul Anderson)
• "The Nebula Awards"
• "The Hugo Awards"