Nebula Award Stories Two
Nebula Award Stories Two is a science fiction anthology edited by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison. It collects pieces published in 1966 that won, were nominated for, or made the first ballot for the Nebula Awards for 1967 in the categories of novella, novelette, and short story, and includes an introduction and afterword by the editors. Not all nominated pieces that did not win are included.
The book was first published in the United States in 1967 by Doubleday, with a Science Fiction Book Club edition in 1969. The United Kingdom edition appeared the same year from Gollancz under the title Nebula Award Stories 1967. Paperback editions followed: in the U.S. from Pocket Books in 1968 (reprinted in 1969) and in the U.K. from Panther in 1970 under the variant title Nebula Award Stories 2. A hardcover edition was issued by Stealth Press in 2001, and the book has also appeared in German.
Critical reception was mixed. Algis Budrys, writing in Galaxy Science Fiction, called the book self-conscious and heavily editorialized but noted it is "filled with good stories." He praised the Vance novella as excellent and the Dickson novelette as good, but was unimpressed by the short story winner, McKenna’s "The Secret Place." He also found the runner-ups by Pohl, Shaw, and Dorman to be very good, and others by Lafferty, Dick, Smith, and Aldiss to be good, while Scott’s entry was striking but flawed. Budrys concluded that, while the collection is worth having, it does not show strong, consistent judgment in its selections.
The volume was also reviewed in Speculation, Vector, and Science Fiction Chronicle.
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