Giveaway: 2011 Nebula Awards Showcase

With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology. This collection of nominees for 2010’s Nebula Awards includes all of the prior year’s most celebrated stories, and will be published in time for the 2011 Nebula Awards in May, 2011.

2009’s award winners, announced in May 2010, include Kage Baker’s novella “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s,” Eugie Foster’s novelette “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,” Kij Johnson’s short story “Spar,” plus Paolo Bacigalupi’s novelette, “The Gambler.”

Here’s how to enter:

Leave a comment or send an email to arconna[at]yahoo[dot]com w/ the subject line “Showcase Giveaway.”  All I ask is that you say something other than “give me the book” or anything resembling that phrase.  Insult me, say something dumb, offer a serious comment, tell a joke or a story, etc.  I’m open to forms.  

Winners will be chosen at random on June 11th, 2011.  The giveaway is open to U.S. residents (sorry, folks; I don’t make the rules).

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