Nancy Kress

American science fiction writer (1948-) · United States · On the map · Writers

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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2018Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short StoryAward2015Locus Award for Best NovellaAwardNebula Award for Best NovellaAward2013Locus Award for Best NovellaAwardNebula Award for Best NovellaAward2009Hugo Award for Best NovellaAward2008Nebula Award for Best NovellaAward2004“Amanda decided that if these people were God’s choice for instruments, then God was as crazy as Father Emil.”In their wordsJanuary 2004Chapter 4 (p. 50)Read the whole statement

“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.”In their wordsJanuary 2004Chapter 9 (p. 109)Read the whole statement

“By pure chance then, by pure chance now. Unfair. But he’d always known that was true of the universe.”In their wordsJanuary 2004Chapter 29 (p. 322)Read the whole statement

“It takes two people to make a human tie. But only one to break it.”In their wordsJanuary 2004Chapter 34 (p. 361)Read the whole statement

2003“An enormous amount of behavior grows out of genetic imperatives.”In their wordsFebruary 2003Chapter 3 (p. 38)Read the whole statement

“Do you always interfere in other people’s confrontations? Are you that most dangerous of all people, a peace-at-any-price meddler?”In their wordsFebruary 2003Chapter 4 (p. 47)Read the whole statement

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAward1998Nebula Award for Best NoveletteAward1997Theodore Sturgeon AwardAward1995Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short StoryAward1992Hugo Award for Best NovellaAwardNebula Award for Best NovellaAward1986Nebula Award for Best Short StoryAward1948Born20 January 1948

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Every single war ever fought anywhere had spawned shadow battles between the warring governments and their own citizens.
January 2004 · Chapter 3 (p. 45), Own words
Science should remain above politics, if it’s to do its job.
January 2004 · Chapter 18 (p. 200), Own words
Kaufman’s fault. He had not planned, had not seen far enough ahead. Failure of vision was a sin the universe did not forgive.
January 2004 · Chapter 33 (p. 347), Own words

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Awards

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story2018

Nebula Award for Best Novella2015

Locus Award for Best Novella2015

Nebula Award for Best Novella2013

Locus Award for Best Novella2013

Hugo Award for Best Novella2009

Nebula Award for Best Novella2008

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2003

Nebula Award for Best Novelette1998

Theodore Sturgeon Award1997

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story1995

Nebula Award for Best Novella1992

Hugo Award for Best Novella1992

Nebula Award for Best Short Story1986

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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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