Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress Nancy Kress won a Nebula and a Hugo in 1991 for her novella “Beggars in Spain,” about genetically altered humans who don’t need to sleep. In 1993 she expanded the novella into a novel and ultimately into a series. The first quarter of Beggars in Spain is basically the original […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Nancy Kress | Hugo Award, Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Act One by Nancy Kress Ever since reading Kress’ wonderful collection Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories I’ve been keeping an eye out for her short fiction. A number of her short works won Nebulas and Hugos, the most recent was a Hugo in 2009 for her novella The Erdmann Nexus, which unfortunately […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 4.5 | Nancy Kress | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress In recent years, I’ve hesitated to pick up a hard science fiction novel. The quantum physics one must be familiar with to enjoy the novel is so far beyond me that I feel I need a physics course or two as a prerequisite. It’s hard […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna´s rating: 4.5 | Nancy Kress | Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress Yesterday’s Kin, by Hugo and Nebula award winning author Nancy Kress, is a first-contact story set in a not so distant dystopian future. We follow Marianne Jenner, a geneticist who is celebrating a recent career breakthrough — the discovery that all human beings are descended from a common female ancestor — when she […]
Read MoreJoão Eira´s rating: 1 | Nancy Kress | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
The Best of Nancy Kress by Nancy Kress Reading Nancy Kress’s work is a disconcerting experience for me. I love her ideas; there is no one quite like her when it comes to integrating a Big Idea into a believable world. On the other hand, I often don’t understand her characters’ motivations and frequently find […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Nancy Kress | Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Short Fiction, Theodore Sturgeon Award | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
If Tomorrow Comes by Nancy Kress Nancy Kress’ Locus finalist If Tomorrow Comes (2018) follows up on Yesterday’s Kin, though works fine as a stand-alone. I hadn’t read Yesterday’s Kin, and thanks to the independent nature of If Tomorrow Comes, and some efficiently economical backstorying by Kress, I didn’t feel that lack at all. Millennia ago, […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Nancy Kress | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Sea Change by Nancy Kress Ever read a book and immediately wish that you’d been able to read it in school, rather than [insert inaccessible book of choice]? For me, Nancy Kress’s 2020 novella Sea Change, with its gutsy-yet-conflicted heroine and all-too-real near-future global catastrophes, is exactly the kind of book I wish I’d been […]
Read MoreJana Nyman´s rating: 5 | Nancy Kress | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Issue 84 of Clarkesworld begins with “Mar Pacifico” by Greg Mellor, which I found to be one of the two best stories in this issue. It’s hard to resist a story that starts, “A pale dawn spread across the Pacific as my dead mother emerged from the waves.” The first person narrator’s mother is formed […]
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No, you have not jumped forward in time two days; it’s still Saturday. But the Nebula Awards will be handed out tonight, so this special edition of Magazine Monday discusses the nominated novellas. The late, lamented Subterranean Magazine first published Rachel Swirsky’s “Grand Jeté.” The story is about Mara, a 12-year-old child who is dying […]
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Our exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review” by Marie Brennan (2016, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) Have a little pity for the editors of the Falchester Weekly […]
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Our exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read recently that we wanted you to know about. “Crispin’s Model” by Max Gladstone (Oct. 2017, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) A young woman, Delilah Dane, moves from Savannah to New York City to pursue her theatrical dreams; […]
Read MoreJana Nyman, Tadiana Jones and Skye Walker | Max Gladstone, Nancy Kress | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Today’s SHORTS column features all of the 2018 Locus Award finalists for short fiction. The Locus Award winners will be announced by Connie Willis during Locus Award weekend, June 22 – June 24, 2018. NOVELLAS: In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (2017) Claudio, a middle-aged curmudgeonly farmer living in a remote area of the Italian […]
Read MoreKat Hooper, Skye Walker, Taya Okerlund, Terry Weyna, Bill Capossere, Nathan Okerlund, Tadiana Jones and Katie Burton | Charlie Jane Anders, Elizabeth Hand, JY Yang, Kai Ashante Wilson, Karen Joy Fowler, Ken Liu, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Peter S. Beagle, Samuel R. Delany | Audio, Horror, Locus Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran Things you should know: 1. This is a reprint anthology. If you read a lot of anthologies in the field, you will probably have read some of these before. I had read three, though two of them were among the best ones, and I enjoyed reading them […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan | A.C. Wise, Alan Dean Foster, Amanda Downum, Angela Slatter, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles De-Lint, Christopher Barzak, Delia Sherman, Diana Peterfreund, Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Holly Black, Jim Butcher, John Shirley, Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Kress, Nisi Shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Patricia Briggs, Scott Lynch, Simon R. Green | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Probability — (2000-2002) Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. It’s all-out war, and humanity is losing. In this fragile […]
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