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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 10

by Allan Kaster, Vera Brook, James Dick, Paul Di Filippo, Isabel J. Kim, Nancy Kress, Matthew Kressel, Derek Künsken, Edward M. Lerner, Mercurio D. Rivera, Allen M. Steele, Bruce Sterling, Peter Watts, Jay Werkheiser ...

Series Book 10 - The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2025 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.· “Apartment Wars” by Vera Brook—the widow of a physicist, residing in a country short of living space for its citizens, finds a device that creates small pocket dimensions. This novella is a finalist for a 2025 Analog ... Read more

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An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2025 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.· “Apartment Wars” by Vera Brook—the widow of a physicist, residing in a country short of living space for its citizens, finds a device that creates small pocket dimensions. This novella is a finalist for a 2025 Analog
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Unrivaled

by Lois McMaster Bujold, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick ...

Unrivaled: Four groundbreaking Hugo & Nebula winning stories includes four of the most outstanding and most acclaimed novellas in science fiction, penned by Joe Haldeman, Lois McMaster Bujold, Mike Resnick, and Nancy Kress.Each novella has stood the test of time and completed the extremely difficult task of winning both the Nebula and the Hugo. Only stories of the highest caliber get awarded both ... Read more

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Unrivaled: Four groundbreaking Hugo & Nebula winning stories includes four of the most outstanding and most acclaimed novellas in science fiction, penned by Joe Haldeman, Lois McMaster Bujold, Mike Resnick, and Nancy Kress.Each novella has stood the test of time and completed the extremely difficult task of winning both the Nebula and the Hugo. Only stories of the highest caliber get awarded both
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Tomorrow's Kin

by Nancy Kress ...

Series Book 1 - Yesterday's Kin Trilogy
"Nancy Kress at her very best!" First in the hard science fiction trilogy based on the Nebula Award–winning novella Yesterday' s Kin (Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling author).Locus 2017 Recommended Reading ListThe aliens have arrived . . . they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only s... ... Read more

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"Nancy Kress at her very best!" First in the hard science fiction trilogy based on the Nebula Award–winning novella Yesterday' s Kin (Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling author).Locus 2017 Recommended Reading ListThe aliens have arrived . . . they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only s...
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An Alien Light

by Nancy Kress ...

In this epic science fiction tale by an award-winning author, two warring tribes are the subjects of a strange alien experiment.Epic in scope, peopled by characters from every strata of profoundly different societies, An Alien Light is an unflinching look at the strengths and weaknesses of the genetic, evolutionary, and historical inheritance that all of us share .Arys, a glassblower and outcast ... Read more

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In this epic science fiction tale by an award-winning author, two warring tribes are the subjects of a strange alien experiment.Epic in scope, peopled by characters from every strata of profoundly different societies, An Alien Light is an unflinching look at the strengths and weaknesses of the genetic, evolutionary, and historical inheritance that all of us share .Arys, a glassblower and outcast
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Observer

A Novel

by Robert Lanza, Nancy Kress ...

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick, modern, hard science fiction standalone medical thriller, combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon.After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’s career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation ... Read more

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Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick, modern, hard science fiction standalone medical thriller, combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon.After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’s career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation
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Beggars in Spain

by Nancy Kress ...

Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered "Sleepless."Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the "Sleepless" a higher IQ and may even make them immortal.Are they the future of humanity? Or will the small community of "sleepless" be hunted down as freaks by a world that has grown wary of its newest creation? ... Read more

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Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered "Sleepless."Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the "Sleepless" a higher IQ and may even make them immortal.Are they the future of humanity? Or will the small community of "sleepless" be hunted down as freaks by a world that has grown wary of its newest creation?
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Beggars in Spain

by Nancy Kress ...

Genetically engineered sleepless humans cause an uproar in this science fiction novel adapted from the author's Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novella."Superb. . . . An exquisite saga of biological advantages." — Denver PostIn a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent . . . and one of an ever-growing ... Read more

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Genetically engineered sleepless humans cause an uproar in this science fiction novel adapted from the author's Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novella."Superb. . . . An exquisite saga of biological advantages." — Denver PostIn a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent . . . and one of an ever-growing
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Yesterday's Kin

by Nancy Kress ...

Nebula Award WinnerLocus Award WinnerAliens have landed in New York. After several months of no explanations, they finally reveal the reason for their arrival.The news is not good.Geneticist Marianne Jenner is having a career breakthrough, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Her children Elizabeth and Ryan constantly bicker, agreeing only that an alien conspiracy is in play. Her youngest, Noah ... Read more

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Nebula Award WinnerLocus Award WinnerAliens have landed in New York. After several months of no explanations, they finally reveal the reason for their arrival.The news is not good.Geneticist Marianne Jenner is having a career breakthrough, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Her children Elizabeth and Ryan constantly bicker, agreeing only that an alien conspiracy is in play. Her youngest, Noah
... Read more
Yanked

by Nancy Kress, David Brin ...

Series series David Brin's Out of Time Series
Teens from across time are pulled into the twenty-fourth century for an interstellar rescue mission in this action-packed science fiction series debut.Life is easier in the year 2345, since humanity has created a utopia with no more war, disease, or crime. Only now, Earth is in a dire situation, one which the adults are powerless to help. A group of teenagers step up to the challenge, but they'll ... Read more

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Teens from across time are pulled into the twenty-fourth century for an interstellar rescue mission in this action-packed science fiction series debut.Life is easier in the year 2345, since humanity has created a utopia with no more war, disease, or crime. Only now, Earth is in a dire situation, one which the adults are powerless to help. A group of teenagers step up to the challenge, but they'll
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The Sixth Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

25 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Stories

by Johnston McCulley, Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Philip K. Dick, Pamela Sargent ...

"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are:OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy KressTHE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. DickWALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal AsherTHE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by ... Read more

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"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are:OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy KressTHE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. DickWALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal AsherTHE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by
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Shapers of Worlds Volume II

More science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

by Edward Willett, Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Jeffrey A. Carver, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David D. Levine, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Helen Dale, Adria Laycraft, Edward Savio, Lisa Kessler, Ira Nayman, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kress, James Alan Gardner, Tim Pratt, Barbara Hambly, S.M. Stirling ...

Series Book 2 - Shapers of Worlds
Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see ... Read more

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Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see
... Read more
Future Perfect

by Nancy Kress ...

Nancy Kress is unrivaled in her treatment of genetic engineering. In 1991 she wrote the ground-breaking classic novella "Beggars in Spain" (Hugo/Nebula) and since then has only enhanced her reputation for telling outstanding stories set in the near future and dealing with genetics.This collection brings together six of these stories written between 1984 and 2008, including "The Flowers of Aulit ... Read more

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Nancy Kress is unrivaled in her treatment of genetic engineering. In 1991 she wrote the ground-breaking classic novella "Beggars in Spain" (Hugo/Nebula) and since then has only enhanced her reputation for telling outstanding stories set in the near future and dealing with genetics.This collection brings together six of these stories written between 1984 and 2008, including "The Flowers of Aulit
... Read more

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