"10 years of Nebula Awards by Gordon Dickson" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dickson Gordon R)

writers hypothesized, and with the attention of serious
academics, the era of the monster and the hardware is finally,
coming to an end. If anything further were needed to end it, the;
hypothetical ten-year shelf of Nebula winners does the task. 11
Since the commencement of the award in 1965, this shelf reveals:
no monsters and no hardware. Instead, what is found on it are
stories of human beings under new and different life pressures,
life pressures that may not yet have come to be but which can lie,
within the bounds of some possible future or alternate present for
any one of us. `

It is not prophecy but freedom to entertain all concepts that is being celebrated here. The proof of its worth is in the endurance of the best things being written in this literary area. Their endurance and their translation into other media-into movies,' into radio and television, even into serious comics, often some' years after the original publication-are some evidence of their worth and the artistry of their authors. It is interesting to note that there are none without exception-among these writers who have won Nebulas to the present date who have not gone on to= gather an ever-growing audience and who are not now seeing f their earlier works collected or reprinted for a continually enlarging readership. I know of no other award, literary or otherwise,-: of which that statement can be made.

Finally, and this is the important point, the conditions that produced such consistently good and unusual writing are still at work. The instinct to experiment, the sense of responsibility, the
fascination with the human spirit and its possibilities, the community attitude, all are currently being put to work by new people even as they are being kept at work by the old. As the awards for this year were being handed out, the next generation of science-fiction writers, with all the individuality, power, and vitality that is traditional in this literature, were in the field and being heard from. Their names are already familiar. Haldeman, Dozois, Bryant, Lanier, Eisenstein, Grant-the list goes on. And behind them in the further dawn a wave of even newer faces are taking on identity-Catherine Callaghan, Arsen Damay, Roland Green, and others. How soon will we see you walking toward the head table at award time in the years to come?