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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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THE IMPOSSIBLE manages to do what I would have indeed thought impossible: Make a tsunami boring.

Actually, that's not accurate. The tsunami, which occupies the first twenty minutes or so of the movie, is breath-taking. The film makers used models, CGI, and live action, and when the wall of water sweeps over the edge of an Indonesian resort and carries everything along with it, I felt I was there... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.81 · 24,218 ratings · 2,338 reviews · 203 distinct works · Similar authors
Beggars in Spain (Sleepless...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 3,034 ratings — published 1993 — 27 editions
Beggars and Choosers (Sleep...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,191 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
Beggars Ride (Sleepless, #3)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 633 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions
Steal Across the Sky
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
Characters, Emotion & Viewp...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
Probability Moon (Probabili...
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
After the Fall, Before the ...
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Probability Sun (Probabilit...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
Probability Space (Probabil...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
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Darkbeast (Darkbeast, #1)
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A book I liked for young readers (age 10 and up): DARKBEAST, by Morgan Keyes, published by Simon & Schuster. As a former 4th-grade teacher, I sometimes read kid-lit. This one has an appealing protag, a richly drawn fantasy world, and an ending I...more
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Behind the Beautiful Forever by Natasha Solomon
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“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”
Nancy Kress, Probability Moon

“Miri once told me that there were only four important ques­tions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his time? How does he feel about how he fills up his time? What does he love? How does he react to those he perceives as either inferior or superior to him?

If you make people feel inferior, even unintentionally," she had said, her dark eyes intense, "they will be uncomfortable around you. In that situation, some people will attack. Some will ridicule, to 'cut you down to size.' But some will admire, and learn from you. If you make people feel superior, some will react by dis­missing you. Some by wielding power — just because they can — in greater or lesser ways. But some will be moved to protect and help. All this is just as true of a junior lodge clique as of a group of governments.”
Nancy Kress, Beggars and Choosers

“The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet she didn't; the words were not what was really important. And wasn't that right? Words had never been important, only strings, and the strings had shapes like - but not like -the ones around the man. Only the man had disappeared, too, and that was alright, because she, Miri, Miranda Serena Sharifi, was disappearing, was sliding down a steep long chute and each meter she traveled she became smaller and smaller until she had disappeared and was invisible, a weightless transparent ghost that neither twitched nor stammered, in the corner of a room she had never seen before.”
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APRIL SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the April SF Book-of-the-Month.

 
  10 votes, 37.0%

 
  9 votes, 33.3%

 
  6 votes, 22.2%

 
  1 vote, 3.7%

 
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Beyond Reality: Nominations for September! 20 112 Jun 20, 2009 09:29am  
Hard SF: * BotM: "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress 6 46 Oct 16, 2009 12:43pm  
Beyond Reality: Nominations for August! 19 64 May 25, 2010 03:34pm  
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