"Intro to Nebula Award Stories 7" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nebula Award Stories 6)

of Springfield, Illinois-all took the time to provide the obvious answer
or help track down the elusive fact. I offer a special word of thanks to
the Los Angeles Convention Committee and its Publicity and
Publications Director, Fred Patten, for assistance in a project that at
this date (April 17) is without predictable consequence: making
available for this book, in time for publication, the results of this year's
Hugo Awards balloting (which won't be known. until mid-August). At
least we have, collectively, tried.

Nebula Award Stories Seven represents, to M. S. Wyeth and Victoria
Schochet of Harper & Row, an introduction to the strange people of
SFWA, and they have managed to conceal their astonishment with
commendable grace and humor. The phrase "This will hurt me more
than it hurts you" has acquired an unfortunate

flavor of hypocrisy, but it does have application to one of the most `
difficult tasks imposed on any editor-deciding what, or whom, to leave
out. Inevitably he must leave out much that he would like to include,
and sometimes that does, indeed, hurt.

Finally, as is appropriate with any volume of a series, I wish to
acknowledge my indebtedness to my distinguished predecessors who
edited volumes one through six: Damon Knight, Brian Aldiss ; and
Harry Harrison, Roger Zelazny, Poul Anderson, James Blish and
Clifford D. Simak-each of whom may be surprised to note what I have
learned from his experience.

LLOYD BIGGLE, JR.
Ypsilanti, April 17, 1972