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Prince of Morning Bells

Product Description: "Anyone who has ever doubted the psychological link between fantasy and life will be quickly corrected by this insightful and highly recommended novel".--Roger C. Schlobin, "Fantasy Newsletter".

By Nancy Kress

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9780967178325, titled "The Prince of Morning Bells" | Foxacre Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: "Anyone who has ever doubted the psychological link between fantasy and life will be quickly corrected by this insightful and highly recommended novel".

9780671420833 | Pocket Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: A number of obstacles threaten but cannot stop the beautiful Princess Kirila in her quest for wisdom and truth and her journey to the Tents of Omnium at the Heart of the World

Trinity and Other Stories

Tells the stories of Joan of Arc's reincarnation, a woman who relives past lives, a writer who discovers a galactic empire, a sentient spacesuit, and an unusual research firm

By Nancy Kress

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9780312944384 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of Joan of Arc's reincarnation, a woman who relives past lives, a writer who discovers a galactic empire, a sentient spacesuit, and an unusual research firm

The Golden Grove

Princess Arachne would sacrifice anything or anyone to preserve an enchanted grove, inhabited by spiders that weave a magical silk

By Nancy Kress

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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

The White Pipes

As the storyshaper spins her magic at the King's table, she realizes that she is being controlled by the white pipes and an evil magic more powerful than her own

By Nancy Kress

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9780425091074 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, August 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: As the storyshaper spins her magic at the King's table, she realizes that she is being controlled by the white pipes and an evil magic more powerful than her own

An Alien Light

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

By Nancy Kress

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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

Trinity

By Nancy Kress

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9780441824151 | Ace Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $3.50 | also contains Merry Christmas, Daniel Tiger!: A Lift-the-flap Book

Brainrose

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

By Nancy Kress

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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

The Aliens of Earth

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

By Nancy Kress and Jane Walker (illustrator)

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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

Beggars & Choosers

Product Description: 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 Sleepless have withdrawn from the rest of the race to an island retreat, from which they periodically release dazzling scientific advances...read more

By Nancy Kress

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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.

Oaths and Miracles

The widow of a murdered scientist and an unstable FBI agent join forces on a trail of science and death that leads them from a biotech company to a paramilitary splinter group to a religious commune. Reprint. NYT. PW.

By Nancy Kress

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9780312859619 | Forge, January 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The mysterious deaths of a showgirl in Las Vegas and a scientist in Boston lead FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh into a deadly investigation into the links between the Mafia and a biotech company specializing in recombinant DNA research

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9780812544732 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, February 1, 1997), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The mysterious deaths of a showgirl in Las Vegas and a scientist in Boston lead FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh into a deadly investigation into the links between the Mafia and a biotech company specializing in recombinant DNA research

Beggars Ride

The conclusion to the Beggars Trilogy, which began with the Nebula Award-winning novel, Beggars in Spain, consummates the struggle of ordinary humans against their genetically modified superiors, who plot to take over the world. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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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

Dancing on Air

Product Description: 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. This novella-length chapbook combines an intriguing murder mystery, involving a reporter's investigation into the competitive world of professional ballet, with the thought-provoking science fiction we have come to expect from Nancy Kress...read more

By Nancy Kress

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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.

Maximum Light

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. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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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.

Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated

Product Description: A truly unforgettable story is defined by its characters. Their motivations, their changes, their actions compel us to read on, anxiously trying to discern what will happen next.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...read more

By Nancy Kress

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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.

Beaker's Dozen

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.' Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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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'

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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.

Stinger

A rash of strokes among otherwise healthy black men transforms FBI Agent Robert Cavanaugh's otherwise boring post in Southern Maryland into a suddenly fascinating and dangerous job as he investigates. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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9780312865368 | Forge, October 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An increase in the number of healthy Black men dying of strokes in southern Maryland suddenly takes on sinister implications when the cause is found to be a possible bioengineered mutant strain of malaria, and FBI Agent Robert Cavanaugh is called in to investigate

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9780812540383 | Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, July 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: An increase in healthy black men dying of strokes in southern Maryland takes on sinister implications when the cause is found to be a bioengineered mutant strain of malaria, and FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh is asked to investigate.

David Brin's Out of Time: Yanked!

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.

By Nancy Kress

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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

Probability Moon

Product Description: 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...read more

By Nancy Kress

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9780312874063 | Tor Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When a new race of aliens stumbles upon the ancient star gates that make interstellar travel possible, humankind sends a team of scientists to study a newly discovered planet populated with an alien society in which everyone agrees on the truth

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9780312875831 | Forge, June 30, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race.

9780765343413 | Tor Science Fiction, September 1, 2002, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When a new race of aliens stumbles upon the ancient star gates that make interstellar travel possible, humankind sends a team of scientists to study a newly discovered planet populated with an alien society in which everyone agrees on the truth.

Probability Sun

In the midst of an interstellar war between humankind and a dangerous alien race callled Fallers, a team of scientists from Earth is sent to study an enigmatic artifact discovered on a distant planet, an artifact that is not only a powerful weapon but could prove to be a doomsday device for humans and aliens alike. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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9780312874070 | Tor Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the midst of a war between humankind and a dangerous alien race called Fallers, a team of scientists from Earth is sent to study an artifact discovered on a distant planet, which is a powerful weapon that could prove to be a doomsday device for humansand aliens alike.

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9780765343550 | Tor Science Fiction, February 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In the midst of a war between humankind and a dangerous alien race called Fallers, a team of scientists from Earth is sent to study an artifact discovered on a distant planet, which is a powerful weapon that could prove to be a doomsday device for humansand aliens alike.

Probability Space

As humans face defeat at the hands of the alien Fallers, four Earth dwellers travel deep into space to test a theory, and hopefully defeat their enemy, in the epic conclusion of the Probability Trilogy, which began with Probability Moon and Probability Sun. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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9780765301703 | Tor Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As humans face defeat at the hands of the alien Fallers, four Earth dwellers travel deep into space to test a theory, and hopefully defeat their enemy.

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9780765345141 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, January 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: As humans face defeat at the hands of the alien Fallers, four Earth dwellers travel deep into space to test a theory, and hopefully defeat their enemy.

Crossfire

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. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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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.

Nebula Awards Showcase 2003

An anthology of Nebula Award-winning fiction selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America includes works by Catherine Asaro, Jack Williamson, Severna Park, Kelly Link, and others, accompanied by commentary on the current status of science fiction in the twenty-first century and its significance as a form of literature. Original.

By Nancy Kress (editor)

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9780451459091 | Roc, March 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathers winning science fiction and fantasy works by authors such as Paul Anderson and Jane Nolan, and highlights essays discussing science fiction's place in literature.

Nothing Human

By Nancy Kress

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9781930846180 | 1 edition (Golden Gryphon Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $26.95

Crucible

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. Reprint.

By Nancy Kress

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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.

Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint : (Techniques and exercises for crafting dynamic characters and effective viewpoints)

By Nancy Kress

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9781582973166 | Writers Digest Books, March 15, 2005, cover price $16.99

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