Nancy Kress




Nancy Kress

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born
January 20, 1948

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female

place of birth
Buffalo, New York, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy


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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 was later expanded into a novel with the same title. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion writing workshops and at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. During the Winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress is the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.

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Yesterday I attended a local con in Rochester, NY: Astronomicon. Guest of Honor was Mike Resnick, and his GOH speech was hilarious. He talked about past Worldcons, including the one where the Hugo bases had arrived in time for the ceremony but not the metal rocket ships which screw onto the bases. R.A. Lafferty won one. Later Mike and friends found him crawling under the table, very drunk, saying ... ...more
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avg rating: 3.80 | 2,528 ratings | 352 reviews | 82 distinct works | 21 fans
Beggars in Spain Beggars in Spain (Sleepless, Book 1)
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 4.09 — 480 ratings — published 1991
11 editions
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Beggars And Choosers Beggars And Choosers (Sleepless, Book 2)
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.86 — 206 ratings — published 1994
4 editions
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Beggars Ride Beggars Ride (Sleepless, Book 3)
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.81 — 169 ratings — published 1996
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Beginnings, Middles & Ends Beginnings, Middles & Ends
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.98 — 89 ratings — published 1992
2 editions
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Probability Moon Probability Moon (Probability, Book 1)
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.35 — 102 ratings — published 2000
4 editions
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Steal Across the Sky Steal Across the Sky
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.43 — 81 ratings — published 2009
3 editions
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Probability Sun Probability Sun (Probability, Book 2)
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.36 — 70 ratings — published 2001
3 editions
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Write Great Fiction:  Characte... Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.85 — 61 ratings — published 2005
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Probability Space Probability Space (Probability, Book 3)
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.27 — 56 ratings — published 2002
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An Alien Light An Alien Light
by Nancy Kress
avg rating 3.67 — 45 ratings — published 1987
5 editions
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"“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself."
Nancy Kress (Probability Moon)
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