Anthologies
Book Club/Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover with dustjacket. Selection of stories originally published in 1958/1959. Includes the award-winning novelette "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. Also, stories by Robert A. Heinlein, William Tenn, Walter Tevis, Brian W. Aldiss, and more.
Twelve short stories accompanied by critical essays discussing development are provided by accomplished science fiction writers
From back cover: They've seen the future--and it doesn't look good.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogehter too possible views of what things will be like when: . Walking for pleasure and exercise becomes a criminal offense. .There are interplanetary exchange friendship programs. .It is possible to give idiots genius IQ's. .You are able to book a package tour to see the end of the world. The Late Great Future--read on and see what pleasures and shocks await you in these 14 fabulous tales 17 When We Went to See the End of the World (1972) Robert Silverberg 28 A Thing of Custom (1957) L. Sprague de Camp 52 The Pedestrian (1951) Ray Bradbury 58 William and Mary (1960) Roald Dahl 90 Flowers for Algernon (1959) Daniel Keyes 127 The Country of the Kind (1956) Damon Knight 144 Come to Venus Melancholy (1965) Thomas M. Disch 159 How Beautiful With Banners (1966) James Blish 172 The Totally Rich (1963) John Brunner 204 America the Beautiful (1970) Fritz Leiber 220 The Annex (1968) John D. MacDonald 237 The Shoddy Lands (1956) C. S. Lewis 246 Crucifixus Etiam (1968) Walter M. Miller, Jr. [as Walter M. Miller] 271 Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962) Frederik Pohl
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.