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9781616960650 | Tachyon Pubns, April 1, 2012, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780877959403 | Arbor House Pub Co, January 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Inside a walled city built by aliens called Ged, humans from a primitive civilization are taught the secrets of science while the Ged observe human thought patterns--hoping to more easily destroy other settled worlds
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9780380707065 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Inside a walled city built by aliens called Ged, humans from a primitive civilization are taught the secrets of science while the Ged observe human thought patterns--hoping to more easily destroy other settled worlds
Hardcover:
9780870541667 | Arkham House Pub, August 1, 1993, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories dealing with such themes as the ability to prevent accidents and save lives by cutting off a finger, staying eternally young, yet losing one's wisdom, by purging memories, and remaining sane only by being quarantined with a nonfatal disfiguring disease
Paperback:
9781607013914 | Prime Books, June 4, 2013, cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780312865375 | Tor Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author offers a collection of her finest science fiction stories of the 1990s, including the award-winning novella 'Beggars in Spain'
Paperback:
9780312868437 | 1 reprint edition (Tor Books, August 1, 1999), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The acclaimed author of Maximum Light and Beggars Ride offers a collection of her finest science fiction stories of the 1990s, including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella 'Beggars in Spain.
Hardcover:
9780312857493 | Tor Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In a future America radically altered by technology, the nearly superhuman powers of the gene-modified Sleepless threaten the security of all humanity
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9780614055221 | Tor Books, February 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In Beggars and Choosers, Kress returns to the same future world created in her earlier work, an America strangely altered by genetic modifications.
9780812550108 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, February 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In a genetically altered future America that is overrun by beautiful and super-intelligent people, the entire planet faces destruction in the face of overpopulation and unemployment.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781433269998 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2013), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In a future America, millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of intellectually superior, genetically modified humans, who in turn are fleeing from the near-superhuman Sleepless.
The product of an experiment in genetic manipulation, superintelligent Leisha Camden is forced to live a life apart from most 'ordinary' people and seeks the companionship of other superhumans
Hardcover:
9780688121891 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The product of an experiment in genetic manipulation, superintelligent Leisha Camden is forced to live a life apart from most 'ordinary' people and seeks the companionship of other superhumans
9781561461417 | Pulphouse Pub, February 1, 1991, cover price $35.00
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9780060733483 | Reprint edition (Harper Voyager, December 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A human who has been genetically modified never to require sleep, extraordinarily intelligent Leisha Camden and her kind become outcasts in a repressive and violent campaign designed to drive the 'Sleepless' from human society.
9780380718771 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: One of the many humans who have been genetically modified never to require sleep, extraordinarily intelligent Leisha Camden and her kind become outcasts in a campaign designed to drive the 'Sleepless' from human society.
Miscellaneous:
9780061931956 | Harpercollins, May 19, 2009, cover price $9.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781884612428 | 1 una edition (Audiotext, December 1, 2005), cover price $17.99
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781884612275 | Unabridged edition (Audiotext, March 1, 2000), cover price $17.99
Prebinding:
9780613171052 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $15.30 | About this edition: PLEASE NOTE: This is the original novella which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Paperback:
9781612420578 | Lightning Source Inc, April 23, 2013, cover price $5.99
Hardcover:
9780312858179 | Tor Books, November 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This conclusion to the Beggars Trilogy follows the donkeys--genetically modified humans who require sleep but not food, medicine, or a government--as they seek pleasure drugs, religions, and other diversions
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9780812544749, titled "Beggar's Ride" | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, December 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: This conclusion to the Beggars Trilogy follows the donkeys--genetically modified humans who require sleep but not food, medicine, or a government--as they seek pleasure drugs, religions, and other diversions
Hardcover:
9780898795509 | Writers Digest Books, November 1, 1992, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Reveals methods for creating a compelling story from beginning to end, discussing solutions for potential problems at each stage of the creative process
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9781599632193, titled "Beginnings, Middles, & Ends" | 2 edition (Writers Digest Books, March 21, 2011), cover price $14.99
9780898799057, titled "Beginnings, Middles & Ends" | Writers Digest Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Reveals methods for creating a compelling story from beginning to end, discussing solutions for potential problems at each stage of the creative process
9780198511151, titled "Elementary Wave Mechanics With Applications to Quantum Chemistry" | 2nd edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1956), cover price $11.95 | also contains Elementary Wave Mechanics With Applications to Quantum Chemistry
Hardcover:
9781596067219 | Sgd ltd edition (Subterranean, September 30, 2015), cover price $45.00
When Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke undergo Previous Life Access Surgery, the journeys into their separate pasts turn out to have an interwoven, horrifying relevance to the future of humankind
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9780688094522 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 1989, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: When Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke undergo Previous Life Access Surgery, the journeys into their separate pasts turn out to have an interwoven, horrifying relevance to the future of humankind
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9780380710157 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: When Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke undergo Previous Life Access Surgery, the journeys into their separate pasts turn out to have an interwoven, horrifying relevance to the future of humankind
Hardcover:
9780765304674 | Tor Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When members of a human colony on a distant planet, led by Jake Holman, stumble upon a primitive humanoid species not native to their world, they soon find themselves caught in the middle of an interstellar alien war.
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9780765343895 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, April 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When members of a human colony on a distant planet, led by Jake Holman, stumble upon a primitive humanoid species on their world, they soon realize that the aliens are not native to the planet and find themselves suddenly caught in the middle of an interstellar war between two very different alien species.
Hardcover:
9780765306883 | 1 edition (Tor Books, August 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The human settlers of a new world, having allied themselves with the plant-like Vines race, face a war against the technologically superior Furs and spread a Vines-created virus designed to stop aggressive behavior.
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9780765346032 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, June 1, 2005), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A sequel to Crossfire finds the distant-future human settlers of a new world, having allied themselves with the plant-like Vines race, facing a war against the technologically superior Furs and spreading a Vines-created virus designed to stop aggressive behavior.
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9780964832053 | Tachyon Pubns, August 1, 1997, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: As in her Hugo and Nebula-award winning Beggars in Spain, Dancing on Air finds Nancy Kress once more exploring the moral ambiguities of genetic engineering that have become her hallmark.
In the first volume of a new science fiction series, a group of teenagers from the late twentieth century are brought from their own time into a future utopia of the twenty-sixth century, where they are assigned the task of battling the Panurish, grotesque humanoids possessing a third eye. Original.
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9780380799688 | Avon Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A group of teenagers from the late twentieth century is brought from their own time into a future utopia of the twenty-sixth century, where they are assigned the task of battling the Panurish, grotesque humanoids possessing a third eye
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9781892391780 | 1 edition (Tachyon Pubns, July 1, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this original bio-thriller from the author of Beggars in Spain, the threat of terrorism and biological warfare is all too real when the danger comes from a familyâs most cherished pets.
Miscellaneous:
9781582976969 | Writers Digest Books, August 1, 2009, cover price $16.99
Hardcover:
9780898798159 | Writers Digest Books, June 1, 1998, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In Dynamic Characters, award-winning author and Writer's Digest columnist Nancy Kress explores the fundamental relationship between characterization and plot, illustrating how vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the driving force behind an exceptional story.
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9781582973197 | Writers Digest Books, June 15, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A truly unforgettable story is defined by its characters.
Paperback:
9781599631950 | Writers Digest Books, October 22, 2010, cover price $85.94
Hardcover:
9780670012473 | Viking Childrens Books, November 8, 2012, cover price $17.99
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9780142427460 | Reprint edition (Speak, November 14, 2013), cover price $9.99
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9781931520454, titled "Fountain of Age: Stories" | Small Beer Pr, May 8, 2012, cover price $16.00
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9780425084762 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, January 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Princess Arachne would sacrifice anything or anyone to preserve an enchanted grove, inhabited by spiders that weave a magical silk
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9781607013044 | Prime Books, November 9, 2011, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780312865351 | Tor Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: After pollutants leave eighty percent of the American population sterile, some people resort to almost anything--including the serious crime of genetic manipulation--in order to have a child
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9780812540376 | Tor Science Fiction, January 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Only a few decades into the future, humanity's ability to conceive children has been severely reduced, making children scarce and desirable, and when a teenaged girl witnesses something illegal, she turns to the only person who believes she may be telling the truth, an elderly doctor.
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