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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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Books 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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Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 58 (2022)
September 2022
(Galaxy's Edge Magazine, book 58)
edited by
Lezli Robyn

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Awards
2003 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel : Probability Space
1997 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : The Flowers of the Aulit Prison
1994 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel : Beggars in Spain
1992 Hugo Award for Best Novella : Beggars in Spain [short story]
1991 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Beggars in Spain [short story]
1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Out of All Them Bright Stars

Award nominations
2012 Philip K Dick Award for Best Book : The Fountain of Age
2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel : Steal Across the Sky
2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel : Probability Sun
1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Steamship Soldier on the Information Front
1996 Hugo Award for Best Novella : Fault Lines
1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Beggars and Choosers
1995 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Beggars and Choosers
1994 Prometheus Award for Best Novel : Beggars in Spain
1994 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Dancing on Air
1994 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Beggars in Spain
1993 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Dancing on Air
1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Beggars in Spain
1993 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Mountain to Mohammed
1992 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : The Mountain to Mohammed
1992 Hugo Award for Best Novella : And Wild for to Hold
1990 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : The Prince of Oranges
1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Trinity [short story]


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