[1] The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the 2007 Nebula Award for novel, novella, novelette and short story, a profile of 2007 Grand Master winner James Gunn and a representative early story by him, and the three Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Award-winning poems for 2006, together with various other nonfiction pieces and bibliographical material related to the awards and an introduction by the editor.

Beagle's story he calls "a classic fantasy tale, well told," noting that it is a sequel to the author's now-classic novel 'The Last Unicorn'.

Walters then turns briefly to this "other material," declining to "comment on the essays other than to say that they were interesting but the space should have been filled with stories instead."

He feels the winning novel excerpt "a waste of space too; this is where a short essay could have served a useful purpose, if the author could have briefly written about how he came to write the novel."

James Gunn's grand master story he recalls "fondly from reading it years before" but notes it is "available in plenty of anthologies and didn’t need to be reprinted here.