The Best of Nancy Kress Author:Nancy Kress Nancy Kress, winner of multiple awards for her science fiction and fantasy, ranges through space and time in this stunning collection. Anne Boleyn is snatched from her time stream--with unexpected consequences for two worlds. A far-future spaceship brings religion to a planet that already harbors shocking natives. People genetically engineered t... more »o never need to sleep clash with those who do. A scientific expedition to the center of the galaxy discovers more than anyone bargained for. A woman finds that ''people like us'' does not mean what she thinks it does. Praised for both her hard SF and her complex characters, Nancy Kress brings a unique viewpoint to twenty-one stories, the best of a long and varied career that has won her five Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Table of Contents: Introduction; And Wild For to Hold; Out of All Them Bright Stars; Pathways; Dancing on Air; Unto the Daughters; Laws of Survival; Someone To Watch Over Me; Flowers of Aulit Prison; The Price of Oranges; By Fools Like Me; Casey's Empire; Shiva in Shadow; Grant Us This Day; The Kindness of Strangers; End Game; My Mother, Dancing; Trinity; People Like Us; Evolution; Margin of Error; Beggars in Spain.« less