Nancy Kress
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Nancy Anne 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 novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993.
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Every single war ever fought anywhere had spawned shadow battles between the warring governments and their own citizens.
Chapter 3 (p. 45)
Amanda decided that if these people were God’s choice for instruments, then God was as crazy as Father Emil.
Chapter 4 (p. 50)
She had to believe it; nothing else was bearable. Kaufman was looking at self-delusion in a character strong enough to elevate it to madness.
Chapter 9 (p. 109)
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Nicholas LeaAlso in See Grace Fly (2003)
Matt HillAlso in See Grace Fly (2003)
Jacqueline SamudaAlso in See Grace Fly (2003)
Ted ChiangAlso won Theodore Sturgeon Award
Ken LiuAlso won Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story
Bruce SterlingAlso won John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAbout this person
Nancy Anne 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 novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. 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 Workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.
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