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	Nancy Kress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nancy Kress (born Nancy Anne Koningisor in Buffalo, New York on January 20, 1948) is a science fiction writer.
		Kress moved back to Rochester, New York, to be near her grown children.
		She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning novella "Beggars in Spain" in 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nancy_Kress (316 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Nancy Kress
		Chapter 3 is written by Nancy Kress, author of "Beggars in Spain", the landmark genetic engineering story that was one of the most critically acclaimed SF novellas of the 1990s---it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was the first Fictionwise eBook of the Year in 2000.
		This bundle contains some Nancy Kress favorites that share the theme of genetic engineering.
		Nancy Kress's landmark genetic engineering story, one of the most critically acclaimed SF novellas of the 1990s.
	wwww.fictionwise.com /eBooks/NancyKresseBooks.htm (883 words)

	Powell's Books - Cross-fire by Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress was born and raised in upstate New York, where she spent most of her childhood either reading or playing in the woods.
		In the early nineties, Nancy Kress took the SF world by storm with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Sleepless Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride).
		Nancy Kress made her reputation in the early 90s with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Beggars Trilogy.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26490&cgi=product&isbn=0765304678 (660 words)

	Nancy Kress
		The premise of the novel is original, the characters are beautifully realised and the future which Nancy Kress has created is both terrible and terribly believable.
		Kress' future is one dominated by the discovery of a cheap power source.
		The world of BEGGARS is one in which there is a sharp divide between the haves and the have nots, though on the face of it the have nots are better off than their equivalents in our current society.
	homepage.eircom.net /~albedo1/html/nancy_kress.html (751 words)

	Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress is one of the leading SF writers to become prominent in the last decade.
		Then in 1988, with An Alien Light, Kress turned entirely to SF and began to publish the SF novels and stories for which she is famous today, most prominently the Hugo and Nebula award-winning "Beggars in Spain," from which has grown a trilogy of novels.
		In her hard SF mode she is most often interested in the biological sciences and their moral and social impact on individual human lives.
	www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /~roboman/Kress.html (122 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Kress: Probability Moon, Probability Sun and Probability Space all refer to the discovery by physicist Tom Capelo, my character, of a fifth force in the universe, probability, subject to the same laws and equations that govern the other four forces in the universe—electromagnetism, gravity, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force.
		Kress: Editors are constantly looking for good hard SF not because "that's the way the industry is going," but because far fewer people write, or want to write, hard SF than write fantasy, social-extrapolation SF, or the other varieties.
		Kress lives in Maryland, and is married to fellow science-fiction author Charles Sheffield.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue279/interview.html (1982 words)

	CTheory.net
		Nancy Kress is the author of eighteen books: three fantasy novels, seven SF novels, two thrillers, three collections of short stories, one YA novel, and two books on writing fiction.
		Nancy Kress: Divisions are inevitable, and they will follow the same lines that divisions in quality of health care follow: finances.
		Nancy Kress: Some of the specific danger zones I already mentioned: discrimination on the basis of personal genetic information, and division between those who can afford biotech solutions and advantages and those who cannot.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=27 (1377 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: David Brin's Out of Time: Yanked!
		Nancy Kress was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1948.
		Nancy Kress moved on to write copy for an advertising agency, wrote fiction part-time, raised her children, taught at SUNY Brockport, and earned an M.S. in Education and an M.A. in English.
		Another key for SF is what might be called living ideas, and Nancy Kress has always been good at presenting and following up on neat ideas.
	www.sfsite.com /06b/yank59.htm (901 words)

	Interview with Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress: I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't think it's a claim that should or would stand.
		Nancy Kress: I'm not egotistical enough to think that I can make a difference or that anybody with any influence is actually going to listen.
		Nancy Kress: It's true, as you so tactically put it, that I may not get all the details right because I'm not acquainted with the technology.
	www.lysator.liu.se /lsff/mb-nr28/Interview_with_Nancy_Kress.html (5502 words)

	Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress: This is the first book of a trilogy (I know, I know, but it's a long tale) set in the same world as my novelette The Flowers of Aulit Prison.
		After twelve years, Nancy Kress returns to the far future and far space.
		Nancy is best known for her Earth-based near-future Beggars series, in which she envisions a world divided between the Sleepless (genetically altered humans who require no sleep) and the Sleepers (the rest of humanity).
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jul00/interview_nancy_kress.htm (1427 words)

	Nancy Kress: Short Stories, Volume 1 - Nancy Kress - Adobe Reader eBooks
		Nancy Kress is one of the leading science fiction writers of the 1990's and today, with three Nebula awards and one Hugo award to her credit.
		Volume 1 of Nancy Kress Short Stories contains the Nebula Award« Winner "Out of All Them Bright Stars;" the Hugo and Sturgeon Award Nominee "Fault Lines;" two Hugo Nominees, "The Price of Oranges" and "And Wild for to Hold;" and many more excellent short works, spanning the science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy genres.
		Nancy prefers writing novella length works, and she is one of only a few science fiction writers to adopt a literary style which combines science and human emotion, resulting in rich stories of great impact.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/126491-ebook.htm (526 words)

	About Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-one books: thirteen novels of science fiction or fantasy, one YA novel, two thrillers, three story collections, and two books on writing.
		Nancy Kress comprehends the grimy relationships among bioscience, technology, and politics; and soon we will too, if only enough of us read her.
		Kress uses elegant, eloquent prose, wonderful and believable characters, and fascinating speculation, to come to grips with some of the most troubling questions of the late twentieth century - technology, freedom, love, and law - and manages to tell a gripping story at the same time
	www.tachyonpublications.com /author/Nancy_Kress.html (374 words)

	Nancy Kress's Biography
		Nancy Kress was born Nancy Anne Koningisor in Buffalo, New York, on January 20, 1948.
		He died in 2002 of brain cancer, and Nancy has moved back to Rochester, New York, to be near her grown children and oldest friends.
		It was while Nancy was pregnant with Brian that she started writing fiction.
	www.sff.net /people/nankress/bio.htm (400 words)

	Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress (1948-) is one of the major SF writers of the last two decades, well-known for her complex medical SF stories, and for her biological and evolutionary extrapolations in such classics as Beggars in Spain (1993), Beggars and Choosers (1994), and Beggars Ride.(1996).
		Kress, as much as any SF writer today, is an heir to the tradition of H. Wells.
		Anarres is Le Guin's version of anarchy, which is an intensely social system as she has set it up, and where solidarity is the basis for the construction of the society.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/HSFR/beggarsi.html (529 words)

	Crossfire (Nancy Kress)
		This is Nancy Kress at her best, and this book could well serve as the foundation for another series comparable to the Beggars books, which I enjoyed immensely.
		One of Nancy Kress's strengths is that she is able to create characters whom the reader gets to know.
		Kress has put a terrific twist on the concept, and built a riveting story about a settlement of several thousand humans who depart a dying Earth in search of a new start--and get much more than they bargained for.
	camera.neverquitlearning.com /us/product/0765343894.htm (689 words)

	Philcon '97-The New Dark Age-November 14-16 1997
		Nancy Kress is the author of twelve books: three fantasy novels, five science fiction novels, two collections of short stories, one mystery novel, and a book on writing fiction: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends.
		Kress is the monthy "Fiction" columnist for Writer's Digest magazine.
		Her most recent novel is Oaths and Miracles (1996, Tor Books), her first foray into the mystery genre (and a most successful one).
	www.philcon.org /1997/kress.html (233 words)

	Crucible by Nancy Kress
		Crucible continues the saga author Nancy Kress started in her 2003 novel Crossfire.
		Whether on purpose or through a trick of "writing fate", Kress makes us wonder if our hard-won freedoms, rolled back by the recent counter-terrorism steps, will some day have to be taken back at a greater loss, after the future we've created has become worse than our current fears.
		In a story amazingly relevant to the situation in the world today, Kress shows us a nearly idyllic society driven to radical change by fear.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Oct04/crucible.htm (589 words)

	Beggars in Spain, the perfect ebook for sleepless nights
		Kress says in the audio interview that the idea for this story came from her jealousy of friends who only needed four or five hours of sleep per night.
		Kress mused about how much more she could accomplish in life if all those hours "wasted" in sleep were made productive.
		As the story opens, a wealthy financier makes use of genetic engineering to produce a "designer daughter." He demands that the scientists in charge ensure that she be smart, pretty, and, most importantly, have no biological need to sleep.
	www.palmpower.com /issues/issue200008/ppbookmonth0800001.html (543 words)

	An Alien Light (Nancy Kress)
		I find it amazing how Nancy Kress is able to create these true to life characters in situations that she creates and makes real.
		Second book of Nancy Kress' I have read (Brain Rose in 1992?) and both have been thoughtful and to have contained fully explored themes.
		Kress is a concise and economical writer who develops characters pretty well.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0380707063.htm (242 words)

	Review: Beaker's Dozen by Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress is clearly someone with writing talent and short fiction seems especially suited to her abilities.
		Kress seems to have an exceptionally negative view of technology and its effect on our future.
		Perhaps she merely intends these as cautionary tales, but there do seem to be quite a few anti-technology, neo-luddite types around these days and I suspect that Kress has some sympathy with their way of thinking.
	www.urbanophile.com /arenn/sf/reviews/beakers-dozen.html (385 words)

	The Aliens of Earth by Nancy Kress
		Kress brings to her stories the same qualities that imbue her novels: a probing intelligence; compassion lit by insights; an agreeably complex approach; an assured, polished style.
		In every tale, Kress displays a characteristic penchant for subtle horror that is contained by her mature, original storytelling ability.
		Powerful human emotions and the relationship between the inner self and outer world are the central concerns in a deeply moving story collection by the author of Beggars in Spain.
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /c0/c850.htm (408 words)

	Nancy Kress - Summary Bibliography (Long Works)
		Kress, Nancy Anne (USA, 20 January 1948-)
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Nancy_Kress (17 words)

	Nancy Kress OmniVisions Interview
		Jim Freund: Tonight at 10:00 PM, Eastern Time, our guest will be sf writer Nancy Kress.
		Nancy, I was the emcee the last time OMNI had you in conference -- I was OMNI Muse on AOL.
		JF: Nancy, I was thinking in a metaphorial sense, insofar as things like compassion and striving to push the envelope of the human experience are concerned.
	www.hourwolf.com /chats/nkress.html (1786 words)

	Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, a science fiction book
		Nancy Kress (1948-) is a US writer of novels and short fiction.
		Kress' beggars trilogy is Beggars in Spain (1993), Beggars and Choosers (1994), and Beggars Ride (1996).
		Kress' probability trilogy books are Probability Moon (2000), Probability Sun (2001), and Probability Space (2002).
	members.aol.com /misuly/kress.htm (406 words)

	BEGGARS RIDE by Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress's Beggars Trilogy is one of the great SF works of the decade.
		- MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE ON NANCY KRESS lives in Brockport, New York.
		Kress uses elegant, eloquent prose, wonderful and believable characters, and fascinating speculation to come to grips with some of the most important and troubling questions of the late twentieth century and manages to tell a gripping story at the same time."
	www.panix.com /~dgh/Kress_RIDE.html (239 words)

	Locus Online: Nancy Kress interview (excerpts)
		Nancy Kress’s first published story work was SF -- ‘‘The Earth Dwellers’’ (Galaxy 1976)-- but her first three novels were fantasy: The Prince of Morning Bells (1981), The Golden Grove (1984) and The White Pipes (1985).
		Kress is also a notable writer of shorter fiction.
		An individual can change his behavior if he wants to, but a statistically large enough group can’t."
	www.locusmag.com /2000/Issues/07/Kress.html (1087 words)

	Rambles: Nancy Kress, Crossfire
		Initially, Kress presents this crucial aspect from the perspective of Gail and Jake, both of whom react negatively toward Shipley.
		His need to sit in silent worship and put the principles of his faith into action is the key to communication with one of the "alien" races.
	www.rambles.net /kress_crossfire03.html (391 words)

	Nancy Kress
		Nancy Kress is a celebrated writer of science fiction novels and short stories, as well as science-themed mystery stories.
		Nancy Kress will present "Science Fiction: The Brain Goes Wild," on Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m.
		Kress is also the "Fiction" columnist for Writer's Digest Magazine, and has published two books on creative writing.
	www.k-state.edu /english/symposium/2003/kress.html (168 words)

	Fictionwise eBook of the Year: Nancy Kress’s “Beggars in Spain”
		“Nancy Kress is widely known for her genetics science fiction stories, and is one of the most popular short story authors today in the science fiction genre,” said Scott Pendergrast, Co-Publisher.
		Nancy Kress said: "Fictionwise.com is a wonderful venue for getting my short stories into e-book format.
		Critics have acclaimed both the short story and novel versions of "Beggars in Spain." It is one of the essential stories that explores the ramifications of genetic engineering, a topic of growing importance in the 21st century.
	www.ebookbroadcast.com /epublishing/beggars.html (524 words)

	Speech by Nancy Kress
		This is a transcription of Nancy Kress' guest of honour speech held at ConFuse 93.
		Publik Nancy Kress: In some ways I feel a little guilty inflicting such an angry speech on people who have been so nice to me but I am, after all, discussing what seems to me the truth of American science fiction.
		Publik Nancy Kress: And all of you people who have been sitting there steaming because you so violently disagree with me can take all night to group your thoughts and we will go head to head again tomorrow.
	www.lysator.liu.se /lsff/mb-nr21/Speech_by_Nancy_Kress.html (10321 words)

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