Nebula Award Stories 3

First edition (UK)

Editor| Roger Zelazny
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Series| Nebula Award Stories
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Gollancz (UK)
Doubleday (US)

Publication date

| 1968
Media type| Print (hardcover)
Pages| 256
ISBN| 0-575-00163-1
Preceded by| Nebula Award Stories Two
Followed by| Nebula Award Stories 4

Nebula Award Stories 3 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Roger Zelazny. It was first published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Gollancz in November 1968. The first American edition was published by Doubleday in December of the same year. Paperback editions followed from Pocket Books in the U.S. in February 1970, and Panther in the U.K. in November 1970. The American editions bore the variant title Nebula Award Stories Three. The book was more recently reissued by Stealth Press in hardcover in June 2001. It has also been published in German.[1]

## Summary[edit]

The book collects pieces published in 1967 that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1968, together with two additional short stories and an introduction and afterword by the editor. Not all non-winning pieces nominated for the awards were included.

## Contents[edit]

* "Introduction" (Roger Zelazny)
* "The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D" [short story] (J. G. Ballard)
* "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" [Best Novelette, nominee] (Harlan Ellison)
* "Mirror of Ice" [short story] (Gary Wright)
* "Aye, and Gomorrah ..." [Best Short Story, winner] (Samuel R. Delany)
* "Gonna Roll the Bones" [Best Novelette, winner] (Fritz Leiber)
* "Behold the Man" [Best Novella, winner] (Michael Moorcock)
* "Weyr Search" [Best Novella, nominee] (Anne McCaffrey)
* "Afterword" (Roger Zelazny)

## Reception[edit]

Algis Budrys in Galaxy Magazine takes the editor, who "writes better than most people," to task for an introduction full of "canned-brain cliches," opining that "[t]his business of making up intros and footnotes and hindnotes last year made Nebula Two's editors ridiculous, and the poetastic aegis is obviously even more powerful than previously suspected, if it could clench this worm of nonsense out of someone with Zelazny's qualities." He is happier with the fictional content; "[t]he stories in his book, thank God, give the lie to the essential sterility of talking about literature," noting the Delany, Leiber, and Moorcock pieces "did win Nebulas," and the McCaffery, Ballard, Ellison and Wright" pieces "were heavily nominated, and clearly had enough stature to win." The last two "might in fact, easily strike you as the best story in the book, either one."[2]

P. Schuyler Miller in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact also praises the stories, calling the Moorcock and Delany pieces "excellent off-track science fiction," with the former "a strange and powerful time-travel story" and the latter "written with the understanding and good taste that you always get from Delany." He singles out the Wright piece as "an excellent—and rare—future sport story" of "powered one-man sledding as a cruel, soul-destroying 'sport' of the future [that] will convince you that a good mechanic could build one of the sleds tomorrow." The other stories are characterized briefly. Miller notes the McCaffrey piece, in addition to being a Nebula runner-up, had won the Hugo Award; the Leiber piece is dismissed as fantasy, as are the "other runner-ups," which he feels are "well done but not Analog fodder."[3]

The anthology was also reviewed by Bruce Gillespie in SF Commentary #4, 1969 (reprinted in SF Commentary Reprint Edition: First Year 1969, 1982), and Gordon Johnson in Vector 52, Winter/Spring 1969.[1]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ a b Nebula Award Stories 3 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. ^ Budrys, Algis. Review in Galaxy Magazine, v. 28, no. 4, May 1969, pages 137-139.
3. ^ Miller, P. Schuyler. Review in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, v. 83, no. 5, July 1969, page 164.

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Nebula Awards Showcase

1. Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) (Damon Knight)
2. Nebula Award Stories Two (1967) (Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison)
3. Nebula Award Stories 3 (1968) (Roger Zelazny)
4. Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) (Poul Anderson)
5. Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970) (James Blish)
6. Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971) (Clifford D. Simak)
7. Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972) (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
8. Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973) (Isaac Asimov)
9. Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974) (Kate Wilhelm)
10. Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) (James E. Gunn)
11. Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) (Ursula K. Le Guin)
12. Nebula Winners Twelve (1978) (Gordon R. Dickson)
13. Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) (Samuel R. Delany)
14. Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) (Frederik Pohl)
15. Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981) (Frank Herbert)
16. Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) (Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr)
17. Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983) (Joe Haldeman)
18. The Nebula Awards #18 (1983) (Robert Silverberg)
19. The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) (Marta Randall)
20. Nebula Awards 20 (1985) (George Zebrowski)
21. Nebula Awards 21 (1986) (George Zebrowski)
22. Nebula Awards 22 (1988) (George Zebrowski)
23. Nebula Awards 23 (1989) (Michael Bishop)
24. Nebula Awards 24 (1990) (Michael Bishop)
25. Nebula Awards 25 (1991) (Michael Bishop)
26. Nebula Awards 26 (1992) (James Morrow)
27. Nebula Awards 27 (1993) (James Morrow)
28. Nebula Awards 28 (1994) (James Morrow)
29. Nebula Awards 29 (1995) (Pamela Sargent)
30. Nebula Awards 30 (1996) (Pamela Sargent)
31. Nebula Awards 31 (1997) (Pamela Sargent)
32. Nebula Awards 32 (1998) (Jack Dann)
33. Nebula Awards 33 (1999) (Connie Willis)
34. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) (Gregory Benford)
35. Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001) (Robert Silverberg)
36. Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (2002) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
37. Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) (Nancy Kress)
38. Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) (Vonda N. McIntyre)
39. Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) (Jack Dann)
40. Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006) (Gardner Dozois)
41. Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) (Mike Resnick)
42. Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) (Ben Bova)
43. Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (2009) (Ellen Datlow)
44. Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) (Bill Fawcett)
45. The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) (Kevin J. Anderson)
46. Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) (James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel)
47. Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) (Catherine Asaro)
48. Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014) (Kij Johnson)
49. Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2015) (Greg Bear)
50. Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) (Mercedes Lackey)
51. Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) (Julie E. Czerneda)
52. Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) (Jane Yolen)
53. Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019) (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
54. Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) (Nibedita Sen)
55. Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) (Catherynne M. Valente)

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