Nancy Kress
Auteur van Beggars in Spain
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Nancy Kress is an author who won Best Novella at the Nebula Awards 2014 for her title Yesterday's Kin. (Bowker Author Biography)
Fotografie: Ellen Datlow
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Werken van Nancy Kress
Ej-es 11 exemplaren
Safeguard 11 exemplaren
Trinity [short story] 9 exemplaren
The Mountain to Mohammed [short fiction] 9 exemplaren
Inertia [short fiction] 9 exemplaren
By Fools Like Me 7 exemplaren
My Mother, Dancing {short story} 7 exemplaren
Philippa's Hands [short fiction] 6 exemplaren
Patent Infringement [short story] 6 exemplaren
Saviour 6 exemplaren
Words Like Pale Stone [Short Story] 6 exemplaren
Exegesis 5 exemplaren
Images Of Anna 5 exemplaren
State of Nature [Short Story] — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
And Wild For To Hold 5 exemplaren
First Rites 4 exemplaren
The Most Famous Little Girl In The World 4 exemplaren
The Kindness of Strangers 4 exemplaren
To Scale [short story] 4 exemplaren
Shiva In Shadow 4 exemplaren
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls [short story] 3 exemplaren
Call Back Yesterday 3 exemplaren
Nancy Kress 3 exemplaren
Deadly Sins 3 exemplaren
Stone Man (short story) 3 exemplaren
Battle of Long Island 3 exemplaren
Spillage [short fiction] 3 exemplaren
Clad In Gossamer 3 exemplaren
Méfiez-vous du chien qui dort 3 exemplaren
Explanations Inc. 2 exemplaren
Sleeping Dogs {short story} 2 exemplaren
Semper Augustus 2 exemplaren
Sidewalk at 12:10 P.M. 2 exemplaren
Dear Sarah {short story} 2 exemplaren
Sex And Violence 2 exemplaren
Shadows On The Cave Wall 2 exemplaren
Mirror Image 2 exemplaren
Spaţiul probabilistic (Probability, #3) 2 exemplaren
The War on Treemon 2 exemplaren
A Hundred Hundred Daisies 2 exemplaren
People Like Us 2 exemplaren
And No Such Things Grow Here 2 exemplaren
Product Development 2 exemplaren
Elevator 2 exemplaren
Invisible People [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
Arms and the Woman 1 exemplaar
Solomon's Choice — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress (1997-08-03) 1 exemplaar
Cocoons {short story} 1 exemplaar
. . . And Other Stories {short story} 1 exemplaar
Foc Încrucișat (Crossfire, #1) 1 exemplaar
Urania 1366 - LA RIVINCITA DEI MENDICANTI 1 exemplaar
Trilogia dei mendicanti (Urania) 1 exemplaar
Erdmann Nexus 1 exemplaar
Every Hour of Light and Dark {short story} 1 exemplaar
Devil's Ways — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Plant Engineering 1 exemplaar
Cocoons 1 exemplaar
The Hemingway Hoax | Beggars in Spain 1 exemplaar
تقنيات كتابة الرواية 1 exemplaar
Canoe {short story} 1 exemplaar
Borovsky's Hollow Woman 1 exemplaar
Cost Of Doing Business 1 exemplaar
First Principle 1 exemplaar
Stalking Beans 1 exemplaar
Marigold Outlet 1 exemplaar
Phone Repairs 1 exemplaar
The Rules 1 exemplaar
Unintended Behavior 1 exemplaar
First Flight 1 exemplaar
JQ211F, and Holding [novella] 1 exemplaar
Wetlands Preserve 1 exemplaar
Probability Trilogy Boxed Set 1 exemplaar
Eoghan {short story} 1 exemplaar
Craps [Short Story] 1 exemplaar
Night Win 1 exemplaar
Pyramid 1 exemplaar
Ten Thousand Pictures One Word 1 exemplaar
Against a Crooked Stile 1 exemplaar
Mithridates, He Died Old {short story} 1 exemplaar
Talp Hunt 1 exemplaar
Casey's Empire 1 exemplaar
Writer's Block 1 exemplaar
Second Arabesque, Very Slowly 1 exemplaar
Pathways (Novelette) 1 exemplaar
Machine Learning (short) 1 exemplaar
Eaters 1 exemplaar
The Common Good 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Kendall, Anna
Koningisor, Nancy Anne (birth name) - Geboortedatum
- 1948-01-20
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Buffalo, New York, USA
East Aurora, New York, USA
Plattsburgh, New York, USA
Rochester, New York, USA
Brockport, New York, USA
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (toon alle 7)
Seattle, Washington, USA - Opleiding
- State University of New York, Plattsburgh
State University of New York, Brockport (MS|Education|1977, MA|English|1979) - Beroepen
- science fiction writer
- Organisaties
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
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Discussies
SF short story: Time travelers capture Ann Boleyn in Name that Book (augustus 2017)
"Beggars in Spain" Group Discussion in Group Reads - Sci-Fi (augustus 2009)
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Five star books (1)
Books with Twins (1)
2023 (1)
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- #1,999
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- 3.7
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- 360
- ISBNs
- 320
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The humans are split into two: a four-person team of anthropologists down on the planet 'studying' the indigenous culture's concept of 'shared reality' and a military ship carrying out the real mission - to acquire what is believed to be an ancient alien weapon in orbit around the planet.
The military mission was more interesting for the physics being discussed and for providing the background on how the interstellar human diaspora, enabled by a network of 'gates' built by an ancient, now vanished, race are at war with an alien species who use the same inherited technology and who no interest in anything except expansion and extermination. The military characters were an unconvincing collection of stereotypes whose main function seemed to be to exposition.
The anthropologists were more interesting. I've never seen classic Persian poetry used as a reference for divining the meaning of events on an alien planet before in the way the Iranian team leader did. There was an American character with an undiagnosed God complex, a woman xenobiologist who seemed to be there to explain the physical differences between humans and aliens and a large jovial German geologist who was the easiest to like and also the least introspective.
At first, I couldn't see any connection between the two human missions. It took longer than it should have done to see that the book title was a clue to the concept behind both military and anthropological missions. This concept linked the apparently sociological phenomenon of Shared Reality with the observer effect in quantum mechanics.
The thing I liked most about the book was seeing the world through Enli's eyes. I liked that when I first met Enli, she was an outsider in her own culture. I quickly learned that she was 'Unreal'. Understanding what that meant and how it worked was, for me, the most interesting part of the book. I thought that Nancy Kress did a great job of making human behaviour seem odd by establishig Enli's people as a baseline for normal.
I enjoyed the ideas in the book but I couldn't engage with the human characters. I wasn't invested in the outcome of the military mission, even when the crew was at risk. The anthropologists were interesting mainly because they demonstrated how hard it is to see another culture clearly when you are unaware of the blindspots created by your own cultural biases.
'Probability Moon' is the first book in a trilogy but I won't be moving on to the other books. I think these stories at too abstract for me.… (meer)