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Nancy Kress


(Nancy Anne Kress)
USA flag (b.1948)
Wife of Jack Skillingstead

aka Anna Kendall

Nancy Kress is an  American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain which she later expanded into a novel with the same title. Kress is the recipient of the Nebula (6 times), Hugo (Twice), Sturgeon, and Campbell awards. Her fiction has been translated into multiple languages, including Klingon. She has 2 sons.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult Fantasy
 
Series
Sleepless
   1. Beggars in Spain (1991)
   2. Beggars and Choosers (1994)
   3. Beggars Ride (1996)
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Probability
   1. Probability Moon (2000)
   2. Probability Sun (2001)
   3. Probability Space (2002)
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Crossfire
   1. Crossfire (2003)
   2. Crucible (2004)
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Yesterday's Kin
   Yesterday's Kin (2014)
   1. Tomorrow's Kin (2017)
   2. If Tomorrow Comes (2018)
   3. Terran Tomorrow (2018)
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Novels
   The Prince of Morning Bells (1981)
   The Golden Grove (1984)
   The Price of Oranges (1985)
   The White Pipes (1985)
   An Alien Light (1987)
   Brain Rose (1989)
   Maximum Light (1997)
   The Flowers of Aulit Prison (2001)
   Nothing Human (2003)
   Dogs (2008)
   Steal Across the Sky (2009)
   After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall (2012)
   Flash Point (2012)
   The Eleventh Gate (2020)
   Sea Change (2020)
   Observer (2023) (with Robert Lanza)
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Collections
   The Aliens of Earth (1985)
   Trinity (1985)
   Beaker's Dozen (1998)
   Nano Comes to Clifford Falls (2008)
   Enter A Future (2010) (with others)
   Future Perfect (2012)
   AI Unbound (2012)
   The Body Human (2012)
   The Fountain of Age (2012)
   The Best of Nancy Kress (2015)
   Future Visions (2015) (with others)
   Devil's Ways (2020) (with others)
   Unrivaled (2023) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Dancing on Air (1993)
   Act One (2010)
   One (2013)
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Series contributed to
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Stellar Guild
   New Under the Sun (2013) (with Therese Pieczynski)
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Nancy Kress recommends
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Robot Artists and Black Swans (2021)
Bruce Sterling
"It's all here, this time with an Italian flavor: the inventive tech, the meticulously detailed futures, the stylish and sardonic prose, the creative adjectival combinations. Set in Turin, Rome, and an upgraded Hell (Italian designers are good), these stories could only have been written by Bruce Sterling. Treat yourself to one of the most original voices in science fiction."
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Keepers (2018)
(Project Earth, book 2)
Brenda Cooper
"A gem‒a complex and plausible look at what we might face someday, and how we might respond."
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The Calculating Stars (2018)
(Lady Astronaut, book 1)
Mary Robinette Kowal
"An engrossing alternate history with a unique point of view, The Fated Sky dramatically demonstrates the technical problems with going to Mars?but the technical problems are the not the only ones. Never backing down from vital issues of race and gender, The Fated Sky confronts the human issues of space travel in a United States made increasingly desperate by a massive meteor strike. Plausible, convincing, and ultimately moving."

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Anthologies containing stories by Nancy Kress
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 (2022)
(Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, book 6)
edited by
Allan Kaster

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Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1985) : Trinity [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Short Story winner (1986) : Out of All Them Bright Stars
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1990) : The Prince of Oranges
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1992) : And Wild for to Hold
Hugo Best Novella winner (1992) : Beggars in Spain [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1992) : Beggars in Spain [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1993) : The Mountain to Mohammed
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1993) : The Mountain to Mohammed
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1994) : Beggars in Spain
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1994) : Dancing on Air
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1994) : Beggars in Spain
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1994) : Beggars in Spain
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1994) : Dancing on Air
Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1994) : Beggars in Spain
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1995) : Beggars and Choosers
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : Fault Lines
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1996) : Beggars and Choosers
Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1998) : The Flowers of the Aulit Prison
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1999) : Steamship Soldier on the Information Front
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2002) : Probability Sun
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (2003) : Probability Space
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2010) : Steal Across the Sky
Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (2012) : The Fountain of Age


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