Edited by the widely acclaimed SF author Robert Silverberg, the Nebula Awards series is "the pulse of modern science fiction" (The New York Times Book Review)The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Nebula Awards anthology series has now reached its thirty-fifth year. This edition contains the complete award-winning texts by Ted Chiang, Mary A. Turzillo, Leslie What, and Octavia E. Butler (an excerpt from her novel The Parable of the Talents); a report on the field ("still inarguably dynamic") by Gary K. Wolfe; runner-up stories by David Marusek and Michael Swanwick; an early story by 2000 Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss; and 2000 Author Emeritus Daniel Keyes's account of how he wrote Flowers for Algernon. In his introduction, editor Robert Silverberg looks back wryly at Damon Knight, the beginnings of SFWA, and the first Nebula banquets. Contents * ix Nebulas at Century's End essay by Robert Silverberg * 1 Story of Your Life (1998) novella by Ted Chiang * 49 Mars Is No Place for Children (1999) novelette by Mary A. Turzillo * 85 The Cost of Doing Business (1999) shortstory by Leslie What * 96 Epilogue from Parable of the Talents (1998) shortfiction by Octavia E. Butler * 107 Unhidden Agendas, Unfinished 1999 in Science Fiction essay by Gary K. Wolfe * 123 The Wedding Album [Cathy] (1999) novella by David Marusek * 177 Radiant Doors (1998) shortstory by Michael Swanwick * 194 The Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss essay by Harry Harrison * 196 Judas Danced (1958) shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss * 210 Author Emeritus 2000: Daniel Keyes essay by Barry N. Malzberg * 213 Algernon, Charlie, and A Writer's Journey (2000) essay by Daniel Keyes * 237 Confessions of a Body Thief (1998) poem by Bruce Boston * 239 egg horror poem (1998) poem by Laurel Winter