A review by quoththegirl
Nebula Award Stories Nine by Harlan Ellison, Kate Wilhelm, Vonda N. McIntyre, Gene Wolfe, Edward Bryant, Ben Bova, Damon Knight, Norman Spinrad, George R.R. Martin, Carol Emshwiller, James Tiptree Jr.

3.0

Very, very mixed bag, as these collections usually are. Interesting mainly for a short scifi story written by a very young George R.R. Martin, a solid desert fantasy by Vonda McIntyre, and a very alien romance/death story by James Tiptree. "Shark" was truly awful and should've been a comedy (Dude's girlfriend wants to be a shark for inexplicable reasons, dude agrees to help her transplant her brain into a shark, girlfriend--predictably--eats dude). Harlan Ellison's "Deathbird" was intriguing but so bizarre that I couldn't enjoy the process of disentangling some sense from it.