The Best of 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 to 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

Price of Oranges

By Fools Like Me

Casey's Empire

Shiva in Shadow

Grant Us This Day

Kindness of Strangers

End Game

My Mother, Dancing

Trinity

People Like Us

Evolution

Margin of Error

Beggars in Spain