The Nebula Award is one of the highest honours an author may receive from the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, who acknowledge the exceptional work of their peers with this award and through publication in the annual Nebula Awards Showcase. Featuring the year's best - from the distant world in Catherine Asaro's "The Quantum Rose" and a terraformed Earth in Jack Williamson's "The Ultimate Earth", to an indigenous people who are the key to ending disease in Severna Park's "The Cure For Everything" - this essential volume offers all the wit, wonder and wisdom of today's masters of science fiction and their unique visions of tomorrow. This year's volume includes fiction by Catherine Asaro, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, Severna Park, Mike Resnick and Jack Williamson, as well as commentary by Terry Bisson, Michael Cassutt, Ellen Datlow, Andy Duncan, Scott Edelman, Mindy L. Klasky, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey A. Landis and Harry Turtledove.