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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