SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1987. The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for novella, novelette and short story for the year 1988 and various nonfiction pieces related to the awards, together with a tribute to 1988 Grand Master award winner and recently decreased author Alfred Bester, the three Rhysling Award-winning poems for 1987, a couple other pieces, and an introduction by the editor. Cover: Nebula Awards 23 by Paul Silverman. Not all nominees for the various awards are included.

Contents:
* Introduction (Nebula Awards 23) • essay by Michael Bishop
* The World Renews Itself: A View on the SF and Fantasy of 1987 • essay by Ian Watson
* In Memoriam: Alfred Bester 1913-1987 • essay by Isaac Asimov
* Forever Yours, Anna (1987) / short story by Kate Wilhelm
* Flowers of Edo (1987) / novelette by Bruce Sterling
* Schwarzschild Radius (1987) / short story by Connie Willis
* Witness [Wild Cards] (1986) / novella by Walter Jon Williams
* Judgment Call (1987) / novelette by John Kessel
* The Glassblower's Dragon (1987) / short story by Lucius Shepard
* Rachel in Love (1987) / novelette by Pat Murphy
* Rhysling Poetry Award Winners (1987) • essay by Michael Bishop
* Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope (1986) • poem by Jonathan V. Post
* A Dream of Heredity (1986) • poem by John Calvin Rezmerski
* Daedalus (1986) • poem by W. Gregory Stewart
* Angel (1987) / short story by Pat Cadigan
* Freezeframe (1986) / short story by Gregory Benford
* The Blind Geometer (1986) / novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Spelling God with the Wrong Blocks (1987) / short story by James Morrow
* DX (1987) • poem by Joe Haldeman
* Science Fiction Movies of 1987 • essay by Bill Warren
* About the Nebula Award • essay by Michael Bishop
* Past Nebula Award Winners • essay by editor

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