Asimov's Science Fiction - June 2014 - Plot & Excerpts
While there are good arguments to be made that we spend too much time thinking about the Nebulas, Hugos thehugoawards.org >, World Fantasy Awards worldfantasy.org/awards > and the like, the fact is that not only do awards provide yearly snapshots of the state of science fiction and fantasy, but they often drive the critical discourse about what our genres do best and what they could do without. The Nebula Award was the brainchild of Lloyd Biggle Jr. sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/biggle_lloyd_jr >, who was the secretary/treasurer of the fledgling Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965. Biggle calculated that the cost of the awards and their attendant banquet ceremony could be paid for from sales of an anthology of nominees and winners. That yearly anthology pyrsf.com/nebula awards2013.htm > continues to be published to this day, although the cost of the expanded Nebula Weekend www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend > exceeds the income it now brings in.
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