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Best Short Story: None
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Best Short Story: “Repent, Harlequin!” “Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison
About the Editor
Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than a hundred novels, forty-seven of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over twenty million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader’s Choice Award, the American Physics Society’s Forum Award and New York Times Notable Book.
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First published in the USA as The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011
by Tor, a division of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2011
First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012
Copyright © The Science Fiction Writers of America, 2011
The right of The Science Fiction Writers of America to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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