Nebula Awards Showcase 56
Nebula Awards Showcase #56 is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works published by SFWA, Inc. covering a selection of Nebula Award winners and nominees presented in 2021. The anthology had been expected to be published in 2021, but was released at the end of 2024. According to the SFWA press release, "this volume represents a change in strategy for the organization that will result in a speed-up of our processes. This and future volumes will be edited by SFWA's own Publications Committee".
Delay
Most Nebula Awards Showcases follow the pattern of being published the year following the award period with few exceptions.SFWA expected to release volume 56 by the end of 2021, but the volume was delayed; announced as "nearing completion" on February 17, 2024. The official release was confirmed on December 18, 2024.
Contents
I. Essay- "Cerberus is the Family Dog: Adapting Greek Myth in Hades" by Greg Kasavin
- "The Good Place: Life, Death, and the Meaning of Everything" by Kelly Robson
- "Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math" by Aimee Picchi
- "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse" by Rae Carson
- "The Eight-Thousanders" by Jason Sanford
- "A Guide for Working Breeds" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
- "My Country Is a Ghost" by Eugenia Triantafyllou
- "Open House on Haunted Hill" by John Wiswell
- "Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" by A. T. Greenblatt
- "The Pill" by Meg Elison
- "Shadow Prisons" by Caroline M. Yoachim
- "Stepsister" by Leah Cypess
- "Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker
- "Where You Linger" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- "Finna" by Nino Cipri
- "The Four Profound Weaves" by R.B. Lemberg
- "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- "Ring Shout" by P. Djèlí Clark
- "Riot Baby" by Tochi Onyebuchi
- "Tower of Mud and Straw" by Yaroslav Barsukov
VI. Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction)
- A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
- Contributor Biographies