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Mike Resnick is now one of the SF genre’s most experienced editors, and his experience helps the latest volume of the SFWA’s choices for Best of the Year become one of the best.
Kelly Link
Kelly Link’s magnificent ‘Magic for Beginners’ opens the fiction pages with the story of a self-referencing television series set in a world-spanning library; there are hints that it's not fictional at all, but glimpses into different realities, including the 'real' one of the central character, fifteen-year-old Jeremy Mars. Full of eccentric and rounded characters, it deservedly won the novella category, and may be one of the best stories of the decade.
Link returns with her winning novelette ‘The Faery Handbag.’ Link is only the eighth writer to win two Nebulas in one year, but while this story of a handbag made from a dog's skin, and the tall-tale-telling Grandmother from a near-unpronounceable country improves on re-reading, it isn't quite up there with her best.