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Fictions: 1976-2020
Nancy Kress
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Title Page
About Nancy Kress
Bibliography
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
1976
THE EARTH DWELLERS
1978
A DELICATE SHADE OF KIPNEY
1979
AND WHETHER PIGS HAVE WINGS
AGAINST A CROOKED STILE
1981
SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL
CASEY’S EMPIRE
1982
WITH THE ORIGINAL CAST
TALP HUNT
A LITTLE MATTER OF TIMING
1983
NIGHT WIN
BOROVSKY’S HOLLOW WOMAN
1984
EXPLANATIONS, INC.
TEN THOUSAND PICTURES, ONE WORD
TRINITY
1985
OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS
DOWN BEHIND CUBA LAKE
1986
PHONE REPAIRS
1987
CANNIBALS
GLASS
1988
CRAPS
SPILLAGE
IN MEMORIAM
PHILIPPA’S HANDS
IN A WORLD LIKE THIS
1989
THE PRICE OF ORANGES
PEOPLE LIKE US
RENAISSANCE
1990
INERTIA
TOUCHDOWN
1991
BEGGARS IN SPAIN
PEACE OF MIND
AND WILD FOR TO HOLD
1992
THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMMED
BIRTHING POOL
1993
STALKING BEANS
TO SCALE
THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND
MARTIN ON A WEDNESDAY
THE DEATH OF JOHN PATRICK YODER
DANCING ON AIR
GRANT US THIS DAY
1994
ARS LONGA
WORDS LIKE PALE STONES
MARGIN OF ERROR
1995
UNTO THE DAUGHTERS
FAULT LINES
EVOLUTION
HARD DRIVE
FEIGENBAUM NUMBER
SUMMER WIND
1996
SEX EDUCATION
THE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON
MARIGOLD OUTLET
1997
ALWAYS TRUE TO THEE, IN MY FASHION
JOHNNY’S SO LONG AT THE FAIR
STEAMSHIP SOLDIER ON THE INFORMATION FRONT
STEADFAST
1998
STATE OF NATURE
1999
CLAD IN GOSSAMER
SLEEPING DOGS
2000
SAVIOUR
TO CUDDLE AMY
WETLANDS PRESERVE
ARMS AND THE WOMAN
2001
PLANT ENGINEERING
MY MOTHER, DANCING
COMPUTER VIRUS
AND NO SUCH THINGS GROW HERE
2002
PATENT INFRINGEMENT
THE MOST FAMOUS LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD
2003
THE WAR ON TREEMON
DANCING IN THE DARK
Ej-Es
2004
SHIVA IN SHADOW
2005
DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
MIRROR IMAGE
2006
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
JQ211F, AND HOLDING
NANO COMES TO CLIFFORD FALLS
2007
SAFEGUARD
END GAME
STONE MAN
ART OF WAR
FOUNTAIN OF AGE
BY FOOLS LIKE ME
LAWS OF SURVIVAL
THE RULES . . .
2008
SEX AND VIOLENCE
CALL BACK YESTERDAY
FIRST RITES
THE ERDMANN NEXUS
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
ELEVATOR
2009
UNINTENDED BEHAVIOR
ACT ONE
EXEGESIS
IMAGES OF ANNA
DEADLY SINS
2011
FIRST PRINCIPLE
ELIOT WROTE
A HUNDRED HUNDRED DAISIES
2012
AFTER THE FALL, BEFORE THE FALL, DURING THE FALL
WRITER’S BLOCK
2013
MITHRIDATES, HE DIED OLD
MORE
ONE
. . . AND OTHER STORIES
MIGRATION
PATHWAYS
ANNABEL LEE
SECOND ARABESQUE, VERY SLOWLY
FROG WATCH
2014
THE COMMON GOOD
PRETTY SOON THE FOUR HORSEMEN ARE GOING TO COME RIDING THROUGH
DO YOU REMEMBER MICHAEL JONES?
OUTMODED THINGS
SIDEWALK AT 12:10 P.M.
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
YESTERDAY’S KIN
ANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE
2015
BLESSINGS
COCOONS
MACHINE LEARNING
2016
BELIEF
2017
COLLAPSE
CANOE
DEAR SARAH
Nancy Kress was born Nancy Anne Koningisor in Buffalo, New York, on January 20, 1948. She grew up in East Aurora, New York, a sleepy upstate town given to cows and apples, where she spent most of her childhood either reading or playing in the woods. She went to college at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, earning a degree in elementary education, which she put to use for the next four years teaching the fourth grade. She liked this.
In 1973 she left teaching and moved to Rochester to marry Michael Joseph Kress, an insurance agent. They had two sons, Kevin Michael Kress and Brian Stephen Kress, and divorced in 1984. It was while Nancy was pregnant with Brian that she started writing fiction. She had never planned on becoming a writer, but staying at home full-time with infants left her time to experiment. She was not good at embroidery or quilting, her previous choices, and so became a writer.
Her first story, the eminently forgettable “The Earth Dwellers,” appeared in Galaxy in 1976. Her first novel, The Prince of Morning Bells, appeared in 1981 from Pocket Books.
In 1984, Nancy went to work for Stanton & Hucko, an advertising agency that has since been bought by Young & Rubicam. She wrote corporate copy for the next six years, writing fiction part time, raising her children, and occasionally teaching at State University of New York at Brockport, where she had earned an M.S. in education (1977) and an M.A. in English (1979). In 1990 she went full-time as an SF writer. The first thing she wrote in this new status was the novella version of “Beggars In Spain.”
Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy currently writes science fiction, most usually about genetic engineering. She teaches regularly at summer conferences such as Clarion West and Taos Toolbox. For sixteen years, she was the “Fiction” columnist for Writer’s Digest magazine, and has written three books about writing.
Her fiction has won four Nebulas (for “Out of All Them Bright Stars”, “Beggars in Spain”, “The Flowers of Aulit Prison”, and “Fountain of Age”), two Hugos (for “Beggars in Spain” and “The Erdmann Nexus”), a Sturgeon (for “The Flowers of Aulit Prison”), and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for Probability Space).
Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Croati
an, Lithuanian, Romanian, Japanese, and Russian, and Klingon, none of which she can read.
She has also written stories under the pseudonyms Nan Kress and Anna Kendall.
In 1998, Nancy married fellow SF writer Charles Sheffield, who died in 2002 of brain cancer. In 2011 she married writer Jack Skillingstead. They currently live in Seattle with Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Novels
The Prince of Morning Bells (1981)
The Golden Grove (1984)
The White Pipes (1985)
An Alien Light (1988)
Brain Rose (1990)
Maximum Light (1998)
Nothing Human (2003)
Dogs (2008)
Steal Across the Sky (2009)
Flash Point (2012)
Sea Change (2020)
Anthology Series
Nebula Awards
Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003)
Anthologies
Eeriecon Chapbook #6 (2007)
New Under the Sun (2013)
Chapbooks
Beggars in Spain (1991)
The Price of Oranges (1992)
Dancing on Air (1997)
Evolution (2000)
Margin of Error (2000)
Out of All Them Bright Stars (2000)
Steamship Soldier on the Information Front (2000)
Summer Wind (2000)
The Flowers of Aulit Prison (2000)
Philippa’s Hands (2000)
The Omega Egg (Part 3 of 17) (2005)
Act One (2010)
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall (2012)
One (2013)
Yesterday’s Kin (2014)
Collections
Trinity and Other Stories (1985)
The Aliens of Earth (1993)
Beaker’s Dozen (1998)
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories (2008)
Future Perfect: Six Stories of Genetic Engineering (2012)
The Body Human: Three Stories of Future Medicine (2012)
AI Unbound: Two Stories of Artificial Intelligence (2012)
Fountain of Age: Stories (2012)
The Best of Nancy Kress (2015)
Nonfiction
Beginnings, Middles and Ends (1993)
Elements of Fiction Writing Beginnings, Middles and Ends (2011)
SHORT FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGICAL
1976
The Earth Dwellers, Galaxy, December 1976
1978
A Delicate Shade of Kipney, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, January/February, January 1978
1979
And Whether Pigs Have Wings, Omni, January 1979
Against a Crooked Stile, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1979
1981
Shadows on the Cave Wall, Universe 11, June 1981
Casey’s Empire, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1981
1982
With the Original Cast, Omni, May 1982
Talp Hunt, Universe 12, June 1982
Green Thumb, Terrors, July 1982
A Little Matter of Timing, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1982
1983
Night Win, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1983
Borovsky’s Hollow Woman, Omni, October 1983
1984
Explanations, Inc., The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1984
Ten Thousand Pictures, One Word, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, July/August, July 1984
Trinity, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1984
1985
Out of All Them Bright Stars, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1985
Birth Luck, Liavek, July 1985
1986
Down Behind Cuba Lake, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1986
Phone Repairs, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, December 1986
1987
Cannibals, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987
Glass, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1987
Training Ground, Liavek: Wizard’s Row, September 1987
1988
Craps, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1988
Spillage, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1988
In Memoriam, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 1988
Philippa’s Hands, Full Spectrum, September 1988
In a World Like This, Omni, October 1988
1989
The Price of Oranges, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1989
People Like Us, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989
Renaissance, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1989
1990
Inertia, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1990
Touchdown, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1990
1991
Beggars in Spain, Beggars in Spain, February 1991
Peace of Mind, When the Music’s Over, May 1991
And Wild for to Hold, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1991
1992
Eoghan, Alternate Kennedys, July 1992
The Mountain to Mohammed, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April/May, April 1992
Birthing Pool, Murasaki, May 1992
1993
Stalking Beans, Snow White, Blood Red, January 1993
To Scale, Xanadu, January 1993
The Battle of Long Island, Omni, February/March, February 1993
Martin on a Wednesday, Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1993
The Death of John Patrick Yoder, Full Spectrum 4, Apr 1993
Dancing on Air, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1993
Grant Us This Day, Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1993
1994
Ars Longa, By Any Other Fame, January 1994
Words Like Pale Stones, Black Thorn, White Rose, September 1994
Margin of Error, Omni, October 1994
1995
Unto the Daughters, Sisters in Fantasy, June 1995
Fault Lines, Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1995
Evolution, Asimov’s Science Fiction, October 1995
Hard Drive, Killing Me Softly, November 1995
Feigenbaum Number, Omni, Winter, December 1995
Summer Wind, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, December 1995
1996
Sex Education, Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, January 1996
The Flowers of Aulit Prison, Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November, October 1996
Marigold Outlet, Twists of the Tale, November 1996
1997
Always True to Thee, in My Fashion, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 1997
Making Good Time, Omni Online, January 1997
Johnny’s So Long at the Fair, Dying For It, October 1997
Steamship Soldier on the Information Front, Future Histories, June 1997
Steadfast, Black Swan, White Raven, June 1997
1998
A Scientific Education, Crime Through Time II, 1998
State of Nature, Bending the Landscape, September 1998
1999
Clad in Gossamer, Silver Birch, Blood Moon, March 1999
Sleeping Dogs, Far Horizons, May 1999
2000
Savior, Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2000
To Cuddle Amy, Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2000
Wetlands Preserve, Sci Fiction, September 27, 2000
Arms and the Woman, The Chick is in the Mail, October 2000
2001
Plant Engineering, Death Dines at 8:30, 2001
My Mother, Dancing, Destination 3001, January 2001
Computer Virus, Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2001
And No Such Things Grow
Here, Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2001
2002
Patent Infringement, Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 2002
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World, Sci Fiction, May 8, 2002
2003
The War on Treemon, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2003
Dancing in the Dark, Space Inc., July 2003
Ej-Es, Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, August 2003
2004
Shiva in Shadow, Between Worlds, August 2004
2005
Dreams and Nightmares, The Omega Egg [Part 3 of 17], June 2005
Mirror Image, , December 2005
2006
First Flight, Space Cadets, 2006
Product Development, Nature, March 16, 2006, March 2006
JQ211F, and Holding, Forbidden Planets, May 2006
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2006
2007
Safeguard, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2007
Solomon’s Choice, Fast Forward 1, February 2007
End Game, Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May, April 2007
Stone Man, Wizards, May 2007
Art of War, The New Space Opera, June 2007
Fountain of Age, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2007
By Fools Like Me, Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2007
Laws of Survival, Jim Baen’s Universe, December 2007
The Rules, Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2007
2008
Sex and Violence, Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008
Call Back Yesterday, Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2008
First Rites, Jim Baen’s Universe, October 2008
The Erdmann Nexus, Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November, October 2008
The Kindness of Strangers, Fast Forward 2, September 2008
Elevator, Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, October 2008
2009
Unintended Behavior, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2009
Act One, Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2009
Exegesis, Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May, April 2009
Images of Anna, Fantasy Magazine, September 2009
Deadly Sins, Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November, October 2009
2011
First Principle, Life on Mars, April 2011
Eliot Wrote, Lightspeed, May 2011
A Hundred Hundred Daisies, Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November, October 2011
2012
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, April 2012
We Can Do This, Arc 1.4/Forever Alone Drone, December 2012
Writer’s Block, Rip-Off!, December 2012
2013
Knotweed and Gardenias, Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon, August 2013
Mithridates, He Died Old, Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2013