Nebula Awards 32, edited by Jack Dann, contain stories that are almost as good as Tolkien’s tales. No surprise since this volume honors the short stories, novellas, and novelettes that were voted by the professional members of the Science Fiction Writers Association as the best science fiction and fantasy of the year for 1996.
These millennium-ending stories feature Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machine, a vampire story in a nursing home, an alternative American Civil War, time travel, and Mayan archaeology. My only disagreement is that I would have voted for Ursula LeGuin or Allen Steele in the novella category over Jack Dann, but that’s a small quibble about an outstanding array of the best modern science fiction has to offer.
Reviewed by Larry Woods.
