CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Julie E. Czerneda

ABOUT THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA

KEVIN O’DONNELL, JR., SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD RECIPIENT: LAWRENCE M. SCHOEN

ABOUT THE NEBULA AWARDS

2015 NEBULA AWARDS BALLOT

Nebula Award Nominees: Best Short Story

“Madeleine”

Amal El-Mohtar

“Cat Pictures Please”

Naomi Kritzer

“Damage”

David D. Levine

“When Your Child Strays from God”

Sam J. Miller

“Today I Am Paul”

Martin L. Shoemaker

Nebula Award Winner: Best Short Story

“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”

Alyssa Wong

ABOUT THE RHYSLING AND DWARF STARS AWARDS

Rhysling Award Winner: Best Short Poem

“Shutdown”

Marge Simon

Dwarf Stars Award Winner

“abandoned nursing home”

Greg Schwartz

Nebula Award Winner: Best Novelette

“Our Lady of the Open Road”

Sarah Pinsker

Nebula Award Winner: Best Novella

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Nebula Award Nominees: Best Novel

Excerpt from Raising Caine

Charles E. Gannon

Excerpt from The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

Excerpt from Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie

Excerpt from The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu

Excerpt from Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard

Lawrence M. Schoen

Updraft

Fran Wilde

Nebula Award Winner: Best Novel

Excerpt from Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Rhysling Award Winner: Best Long Poem

“100 Reasons To Have Sex With An Alien”

F. J. Bergmann

ABOUT THE RAY BRADBURY AWARD

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Mad Max: Fury Road

“A Remarkable Win”

Mark Askwith

ABOUT THE ANDRE NORTON AWARD

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

Excerpt from Updraft

Fran Wilde

ABOUT THE KATE WILHELM SOLSTICE AWARD

Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award Winner: Sir Terry Pratchett

“I Have Read Them All, Now.”

Michelle Sagara

ABOUT THE DAMON KNIGHT MEMORIAL GRAND MASTER AWARD

Damon Knight Grand Master: C. J. Cherryh

“Damon Knight Grand Master: C. J. Cherryh”

Betsy Wollheim

Excerpt from Pride of Chanur

C. J. Cherryh

Excerpt from Foreigner

C. J. Cherryh

PAST NEBULA AWARD WINNERS

ABOUT THE EDITOR

ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST