Last year we reported that, after many years of absence, there would once again be an anthology of Hugo Award nominated fiction in the shops. We are delighted to announce that the Hugo Award Showcase 2010 is now available. The table of contents is as follows:

• Cover, Donato Giancola
• Introduction, Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel
• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, Kij Johnson
• “The Erdman Nexus”, Nancy Kress
• “From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled”, Michael Swanwick
• “Shoggoths in Bloom”, Elizabeth Bear
• “Truth”, Robert Reed
• “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”, James Alan Gardner
• “Evil Robot Monkey”, Mary Robinette Kowal
• “The Tear’, Ian McDonald

The book concludes with a list of all of the nominees and winners from the 2009 Hugo Awards.

Our thanks to Prime Books and Mary Robinette Kowal for making this anthology available.

People have been asking us for some time where there is no annual anthology of Hugo Award winners. Our answer has been that no one wanted to publish one (and WSFS does not publish books). However, that answer no longer applies. We are delighted to announce that we have licensed Prime Books to produce a Hugo Award Showcase anthology. It will be edited by Campbell-winning writer, Mary Robinette Kowal. The 2010 edition, as well as featuring winning fiction from 2009, features a magnificent cover by 2009’s Best Artist, Donato Giancola. Here’s a mock-up of the proposed cover.