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Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress

Author Biography & Works

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. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, recently honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin.

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Books by Nancy Kress

Yesterday’s Kin

Yesterday’s Kin

This short novel by one of the most reliable writers in the genre is a first contact story with a difference. Aliens have landed in New York, or rather, just...

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Beggars In Spain

Beggars In Spain

(Sleepless) Start here

How much more could you do if you didn't have to sleep? That's the simple question that starts this superb trilogy.In this near future world, a philosophy that is becoming...

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Beggars And Choosers

Beggars And Choosers

(Sleepless)

The sequel to Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress's Beggars and Choosers imagines a divided America where people who do not need to sleep live above the rest.

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Beggars Ride

Beggars Ride

(Sleepless)

From back cover Tor paperback December 1997: Two hundred years in the future regular human beings hate and fear the Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, genetically modified humans who are immune...

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The Beggar's Trilogy (cover not available)

The Beggar's Trilogy

(The Beggars Trilogy)

The sleepless are genetically engineered humans with higher IQs, greater productivity, and even immortality.

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