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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">Kress, Nancy </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=kress_nancy'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=kress_nancy'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=kress_nancy'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kress_nancy&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kress_nancy'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=kress_nancy');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=Kress-EleventhGate.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/Kress-EleventhGate.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1948-    ) US author, married to Charles <a href="/entry/sheffield_charles">Sheffield</a> from 1998 until his death in 2002 and married to Jack <a href="/entry/skillingstead_jack">Skillingstead</a> from 2011; she also writes as by Anna Kendall. She began publishing sf with "The Earth Dwellers" in <a href="/entry/galaxy">Galaxy</a> for December 1976, though her first novels were fantasies like <i>The Prince of Morning Bells</i> (<b>1981</b>), a quest tale during which, surprisingly, the young princess involved ages into an old woman before the close, and <i>The Golden Grove</i> (<b>1984</b>), which, again surprisingly, treats Greek myth with something of the iron darkness it merits. After a further fantasy novel, <i>The White Pipes</i> (<b>1985</b>), and an intermittently rewarding collection, <i>Trinity and Other Stories</i> (coll <b>1985</b>), which includes the <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>-winning "Out of All Them Bright Stars" (March 1985 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>), Kress moved vigorously into sf with her fourth novel, the slow-moving but cumulatively impressive <i>An Alien Light</i> (<b>1988</b>), set on a planet inhabited by two sets of irreconcilably opposed humans, the descendants of the people from a migratory <a href="/entry/starship">Starship</a> that had crashed there centuries earlier after a battle with the <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> Ged. All knowledge of this history has been lost, and the Ged set up a huge technological honey-trap to entice humans inside for study (see <a href="/entry/cultural_engineering">Cultural Engineering</a>), as they have found the territoriality and attendant aggressiveness of <i>Homo sapiens</i> baffling. What they learn from the two sets of stranded humans does not lead them to feel that can in the end win a war against a species whose savagery seems ultimately unopposable. <i>Brain Rose</i> (<b>1990</b>), just as impressively, presents an extremely grim <a href="/entry/near_future">Near-Future</a> Earth whose inhabitants are harassed by an AIDS-like disease which eats memory; the protagonists of the tale sign up for medically dubious Previous Life Access Surgery (see <a href="/entry/medicine">Medicine</a>), which is intended somehow to counter the dimming out of the world itself through a "genuine" return to the past, whose face may be the face of <a href="/entry/gaia">Gaia</a>.</p> <p>Kress is probably best known for the <b>Beggars in Spain</b> sequence, which begins with the extremely impressive <i>Beggars in Spain</i> (April 1991 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>; <b>1991</b>), a novella – perhaps her best length – which won both a <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> award and a <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>; the tale is set within a framework familiar to most sf readers: a group of specially bred children who need no sleep must band together to defend themselves against the jealousy and oppressive behaviour of normal humans, who distrust what are deemed to be their <a href="/entry/superpowers">Superpowers</a>. Within this frame Kress embeds speculations about not only <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetic Engineering</a> but also the ethical consequences of "superiority" (see <a href="/entry/superman">Superman</a>) in a world which demands an "ecology of help" to survive. The sequence continues with a full-length version of the initial novella, <i>Beggars in Spain</i> (<b>1992</b>) which expands the original into an ironic saga set partly in space, and which is almost certainly her best novel yet. In the later volumes of the sequence, <i>Beggars & Choosers</i> (<b>1994</b>) and <i>Beggars Ride</i> (<b>1996</b>), the sequence begins to acquire the scope – and to encounter some of the difficulties of focus – of a genuine <a href="/entry/future_histories">Future History</a>; en passant, the efforts of Kress's sleepless, who have in fact become a <a href="/entry/pariah_elite">Pariah Elite</a>, to create a viable <a href="/entry/utopias">Utopia</a> within the context of human civilization prove as a whole sadly optimistic.</p> <p>A second series, the <b>Oaths and Miracles</b> sequence comprising <i>Oaths and Miracles</i> (<b>1996</b>) and <i>Stinger</i> (<b>1998</b>), set in the <a href="/entry/near_future">Near Future</a>, again engages with issues of <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetic Engineering</a> within a <a href="/entry/technothriller">Technothriller</a> frame. More engagingly, the <b>Probability</b> sequence – comprising "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" (October/November 1996 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>), <i>Probability Moon</i> (<b>2000</b>), <i>Probability Sun</i> (<b>2001</b>) and <i>Probability Space</i> (<b>2003</b>), the last a winner of the <a href="/entry/john_w_campbell_memorial_award">John W Campbell Memorial Award</a> – generates in a <a href="/entry/planetary_romance">Planetary Romance</a> context a model for the adult psyche (human or <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a>) that defines any adult as a being incapable of confusing its <a href="/entry/perception">Perception</a> of reality with reality itself (unlike human adolescents in general and most human adults). The frame of the sequence – humans, having discovered <a href="/entry/matter_transmission">Matter Transmission</a>, explore nearby planets where they learn that some <a href="/entry/forerunners">Forerunner</a> civilization seems to have created mutually fertile humanoid species throughout the galaxy – is less absorbing than her examination of the <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> inhabitants of a planet called World, who are reality sharers: consensus about the probable nature of reality being wired in. As seems to be the pattern with her longer works, the later volumes of the sequence seem to lose edge, though the <a href="/entry/hard_sf">Hard SF</a> concerns with the physics of new <a href="/entry/weapons">Weapons</a> do continue to interact effectively with the exploration of the nature of <i>Homo sapiens</i>; and her basic investigative premise remains compelling.</p> <p>More recent fiction includes <i>Dogs</i> (<b>2008</b>), a light (if that term can be used) rendering of the kind of <a href="/entry/paranoia">Paranoia</a>-inducing <a href="/entry/pandemic">Pandemic</a>-<a href="/entry/disaster">Disaster</a> tale frequently indulged in by writers like Stephen <a href="/entry/king_stephen">King</a> (see <a href="/entry/horror_in_sf">Horror in SF</a>); in this case <a href="/entry/dogs">Dogs</a> turn feral because of a global conspiracy. Much more soberly, <i>Steal Across the Sky</i> (<b>2009</b>), somewhat as does <b>Probability</b>, presents a galaxy where human societies have matured (or failed) on various planets, their behaviour (see again <a href="/entry/cultural_engineering">Cultural Engineering</a> and <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetic Engineering</a>) controlled in what turns out to be a vast series of <a href="/entry/thought_experiment">Thought Experiments</a> conducted over millennia by an ambivalently guilt-ridden <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> species. The <a href="/entry/young_adult">Young Adult</a> <b>Soulvine Moore Chronicles</b> as by Anna Kendall, beginning with <i>Crossing Over</i> (<b>2010</b>), are fantasy. Later short fiction is assembled in <i>The Aliens of Earth</i> (coll <b>1993</b>), <i>Beaker's Dozen</i> (coll <b>1998</b>), <i>Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories</i> (coll <b>2008</b>) and <i>Fountain of Age: Stories</i> (coll <b>2012</b>). Two stories from the last collection won awards: "The Fountain of Age" (July 2007 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>) won a <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>, and "The Erdmann Nexus" (October-November 2008 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>) won a <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a>. Another <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> winner, as best novella, was <i>After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall</i> (<b>2012</b>). In <i>Yesterday's Kin</i> (<b>2014</b>), <a href="/entry/aliens">Aliens</a> visit Earth to inform us that a fatal cloud of interstellar particles is due in a year; the tale unpacks its complex implications through the prism of one seemingly dysfunctional (but ultimately momentous) family. This short novel won the <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> and <a href="/entry/locus_award">Locus Award</a> for best novella.</p> <p>Over a career that has lasted nearly four decades, Kress has traversed much of the territory of the fantastic in literature; she does not seem ready to stop. [JC]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/anthropology">Anthropology</a>; <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's Science Fiction</a>; <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/fsf">Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">Nancy Anne Kress</h3> <p><b>born</b> Buffalo, New York: 20 January 1948</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kress_nancy&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kress_nancy'"></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Beggars in Spain</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beggars+in+Spain&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beggars in Spain</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, <b>1991</b>) [first appeared April 1991 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: <b>Beggars in Spain</b>: hb/George <a href="/entry/barr_george">Barr</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beggars+in+Spain&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beggars in Spain</a></em> (New York: William Morrow/AvoNova, <b>1993</b>) [exp of the above: <b>Beggars in Spain</b>: hb/Kenneth Jackson]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beggars+and+Choosers&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beggars & Choosers</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1994</b>) [<b>Beggars in Spain</b>: hb/David Richeid]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beggars+Ride&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beggars Ride</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1996</b>) [<b>Beggars in Spain</b>: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>Oaths and Miracles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Oaths+and+Miracles&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Oaths and Miracles</a></em> (New York: Tor/Forge, <b>1996</b>) [<b>Oaths and Miracles</b>: hb/Shelley <a href="/entry/eshkar_shelley">Eshkar</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Stinger&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Stinger</a></em> (New York: Tor/Forge, <b>1998</b>) [<b>Oaths and Miracles</b>: hb/Shelley <a href="/entry/eshkar_shelley">Eshkar</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>Probability</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Probability+Moon&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Probability Moon</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2000</b>) [<b>Probability</b>: hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Flowers+of+Aulit+Prison&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Flowers of Aulit Prison</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared October-November 1996 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a> <b>Probability</b>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Probability+Sun&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Probability Sun</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2001</b>) [<b>Probability</b>: hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Probability+Space&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Probability Space</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2002</b>) [<b>Probability</b>: hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>Crossfire</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Crossfire&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Crossfire</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2003</b>) [<b>Crossfire</b>: hb/Jim <a href="/entry/burns_jim">Burns</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Crucible&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Crucible</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2004</b>) [<b>Crossfire</b>: hb/Jim <a href="/entry/burns_jim">Burns</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>Soulvine Moor Chronicles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Crossing+Over&field-author=Anna+Kendall" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Crossing Over</a></em> (London: Gollancz, <b>2010</b>) as by Anna Kendall [<b>Soulvine Moor Chronicles</b>: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dark+Mist+Rising&field-author=Anna+Kendall" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dark Mist Rising</a></em> (London: Gollancz, <b>2011</b>) as by Anna Kendall [<b>Soulvine Moor Chronicles</b>: hb/Kate Logutova]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Bright+and+Terrible+Sword&field-author=Anna+Kendall" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Bright and Terrible Sword</a></em> (London: Indigo, <b>2012</b>) as by Anna Kendall [<b>Soulvine Moor Chronicles</b>: hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>Kin</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Yesterday+Kin&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Yesterday's Kin</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2014</b>) [<b>Kin</b>: pb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tomorrow+Kin&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tomorrow's Kin</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2017</b>) [<b>Kin</b>: hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=If+Tomorrow+Comes&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">If Tomorrow Comes</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2017</b>) [<b>Kin</b>: hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Terran+Tomorrow&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Terran Tomorrow</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2018</b>) [<b>Kin</b>: hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Prince+of+Morning+Bells&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Prince of Morning Bells</a></em> (New York: Pocket Books/Timescape, <b>1981</b>) [pb/Carl <a href="/entry/lundgren_carl_m">Lundgren</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Golden+Grove&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Golden Grove</a></em> (New York: Bluejay Books, <b>1984</b>) [hb/Dawn E Wilson]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+White+Pipes&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The White Pipes</a></em> (New York: Bluejay Books, <b>1985</b>) [hb/Dawn Wilson]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=An+Alien+Light&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">An Alien Light</a></em> (New York: Arbor House, <b>1988</b>) [hb/Ron <a href="/entry/walotsky_ron">Walotsky</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Brain+Rose&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Brain Rose</a></em> (New York: William Morrow, <b>1990</b>) [hb/Don Bolognese] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Brainrose&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Brainrose</a></em> (New York: Avon Books, <b>1991</b>) [vt of the above: pb/Dorian <a href="/entry/vallejo_dorian">Vallejo</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Maximum+Light&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Maximum Light</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1998</b>) [hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=David+Brin+Out+of+Time+Yanked&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">David Brin's Out of Time: Yanked!</a></em> (New York: Avon Books, <b>1998</b>) [tie to the David <a href="/entry/brin_david">Brin</a> <b>Out of Time</b> concept: pb/David Bollinger and Cliff <a href="/entry/nielsen_cliff">Nielsen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nothing+Human&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nothing Human</a></em> (Urbana, Illinois: Golden Gryphon Press, <b>2003</b>) [hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dogs&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dogs</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2008</b>) [pb/Ann Monn]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Steal+Across+the+Sky&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Steal Across the Sky</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2009</b>) [hb/John Jude <a href="/entry/palencar_john_jude">Palencar</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Act+One&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Act One</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Arc Manor (Phoenix Pick), <b>2010</b>) [novella: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=After+the+Fall+Before+the+Fall+During+the+Fall&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2012</b>) [pb/Ann Monn]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Flash+Point&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Flash Point</a></em> (New York: Viking, <b>2012</b>) [hb/Tony Sahara]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sea+Change&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sea Change</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2020</b>) [pb/Elizabeth Storey]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Eleventh+Gate&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Eleventh Gate</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2020</b>) [pb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Observer&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Observer</a></em> (Stamford, Connecticut: The Story Plant, <b>2023</b>) with Robert Lanza [hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Trinity+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Trinity and Other Stories</a></em> (New York: Bluejay Books, <b>1985</b>) [coll: hb/Frederick Marvin]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Price+of+Oranges&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Price of Oranges</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, <b>1992</b>) [story: chap: first appeared April 1989 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: pb/Alan Giana]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Aliens+of+Earth&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Aliens of Earth</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1993</b>) [coll: hb/Jane Walker and Ed Paschke]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dancing+on+Air&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dancing on Air</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>1997</b>) [novella: chap: pb/Michael Dashow]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beaker+Dozen&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beaker's Dozen</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1998</b>) [coll: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Out+of+All+Them+Bright+Stars&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Out of All Them Bright Stars</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared March 1985 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Steamship+Soldier+on+the+Information+Front&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Steamship Soldier on the Information Front</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared in <em>Future Histories: Award-winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications</em> (anth <b>1997</b>) edited by Stephen McClelland: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Evolution&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Evolution</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared October 1995 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Margin+of+Error&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Margin of Error</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared October 1994 <a href="/entry/omni">Omni</a>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Summer+Wind&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Summer Wind</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared in <em>Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears</em> (anth <b>1995</b>) edited by Ellen <a href="/entry/datlow_ellen">Datlow</a> and Terri <a href="/entry/windling_terri">Windling</a>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Philippa+Hands&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Philippa's Hands</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2000</b>) [story: first appeared in <em>Full Spectrum</em> (anth <b>1989</b>) edited by Lou <a href="/entry/aronica_lou">Aronica</a> and Shawna <a href="/entry/mccarthy_shawna">McCarthy</a>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Omega+Egg+Part+3+of+17+Dreams+and&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Omega Egg (Part 3 of 17): Dreams and Nightmares</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2005</b>) [ebook: chapter of multi-author <a href="/entry/round_robin">Round-Robin</a> novel: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nano+Comes+to+Clifford+Falls+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories</a></em> (Urbana, Illinois: Golden Gryphon Press, <b>2008</b>) [coll: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Fountain+of+Age+Stories&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Fountain of Age: Stories</a></em> (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, <b>2012</b>) [coll: pb/fonografiks.co]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Future+Perfect+Six+Stories+of+Genetic+Engineering&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Future Perfect: Six Stories of Genetic Engineering</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Arc Manor (Phoenix Pick), <b>2012</b>) [coll: <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetic Engineering</a>: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Body+Human+Three+Stories+of+Future+Medicine&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Body Human: Three Stories of Future Medicine</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Arc Manor (Phoenix Pick), <b>2012</b>) [coll: <a href="/entry/medicine">Medicine</a>: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=AI+Unbound+Two+Stories+of+Artificial+Intelligence&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">AI Unbound: Two Stories of Artificial Intelligence</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Arc Manor (Phoenix Pick), <b>2012</b>) [coll: <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a>: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=New+Under+the+Sun&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">New Under the Sun</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick, <b>2013</b>) [anth: includes an associated story by Therese Pieczynski: in the publisher's <b>The Stellar Guild</b> series: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Nancy+Kress&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Nancy Kress</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2015</b>) [coll: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/canty_thomas">Canty</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beginnings+Middles+and+Ends&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beginnings, Middles & Ends</a></em> (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, <b>1993</b>) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>works as editor</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nebula+Awards+Showcase+2003&field-author=Kress+Nancy" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nebula Awards Showcase 2003</a></em> (New York: Penguin/Roc, <b>2003</b>) [anth: #37 in overall sequence: <a href="/entry/nebula_anthologies">Nebula Anthologies</a>: <b>Nebula Awards</b>: pb/David Sandberg]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul 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