Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (College of Mystery #2 - The Green Leopard Plague)

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r) bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought-provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year's winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Contents

1 • Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois
8 • The Green Leopard Plague • (2003) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
73 • Basement Magic • (2003) • novelette by Ellen Klages
101 • Dry Bones • (2003) • novelette by William Sanders
123 • The Masters Speak: Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Gardner Dozois
127 • Science Fiction Century (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Jack Williamson
130 • The Way It Was (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Robert Silverberg
140 • Teaching the Art (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
142 • Change and Okay In All Around I See (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
145 • Then and Now (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Frederik Pohl
152 • The Voluntary State • (2004) • novelette by Christopher Rowe
188 • Grand Master Anne McCaffrey: An Appreciation • (2006) • essay by Jody Lynn Nye
193 • The Ship Who Sang • [The Ship Who Sang] • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
213 • Coming to Terms • (2004) • shortstory by Eileen Gunn
224 • Embracing-the-New • (2004) • shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
236 • Paladin of Souls (excerpt) • (2003) • shortfiction by Lois McMaster Bujold
250 • Zora and the Zombie • (2004) • novelette by Andy Duncan
271 • Film: The Year in Review (Nebula Awards Showcase 2006) • (2006) • essay by Kathy Maio
283 • Travels with My Cats • (2004) • shortstory by Mike Resnick
304 • Just Distance • (2003) • poem by Roger Dutcher
305 • Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks • (2003) • poem by Theodora Goss
309 • The Cookie Monster • (2003) • novella by Vernor Vinge