Nancy Kress

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Nancy Kress (in the middle), with Delia Sherman and Ellen Datlow

Nancy Kress (* 20th January 1948 in Buffalo , New York as Nancy Anne Koningisor ) is an American science fiction - writer . She is a five-time Nebula Award winner and has received the Hugo Award twice .

Life

Nancy Kress grew up in East Aurora and attended college at SUNY Plattsburgh and Brockport, where she graduated with an MS in Education and an MA in English. She worked as a primary school teacher and moved to Rochester in 1973 because of her marriage to Michael Joseph Kress . The marriage, which was divorced in 1984, had two sons; she started writing during one of the pregnancies. Nancy Kress worked for an advertising agency, switched to freelance writing status in 1990 and married SF writer Charles Sheffield in 1998 , who died in 2002. She then moved back to Rochester to be around her now grown children. In the winter of 2008/09, Kress lived in Germany and taught as a Picador Guest Professor at the American Studies Leipzig Institute. In this role she also gave several readings in Germany.

In 1976 she started writing science fiction. But she only became known in 1991 through the story Beggars in Spain (German beggar in Spain ). For this she was awarded the Hugo and Nebula Awards; it was later expanded into the novel of the same name.

Many of Kress's works are in the near future. She often addresses genetic and nanotechnology and their consequences. Until the end of the 1980s, her stories were more likely to be assigned to the fantasy genre, since then she has mainly written so-called hard science fiction .

Works

  • Beggar trilogy
  • Probability trilogy
    • Sternspringer 2005 ISBN 3-86552-008-1 ( Probability Moon . 2000)
    • ( Probability Sun. 2001)
    • ( Probability Space . 2002)
  • Crossfire
  • "Yesterday's Kin" trilogy
    • Tomorrow's Kin , Gate, 2017
    • If Tomorrow Comes , Tor, 2018
  • also:
    • 1981: Prince of the Morning Bells (German: The Way to the Heart of the World , 1982 ISBN 3-442-23815-3 )
    • 1984: The Golden Grove (dt. The Golden Grove , 1985 ISBN 3-442-23872-2 )
    • 1985: The White Pipes (German shawm sounds , 1985 ISBN 3-442-23864-1 )
    • 1985: The Price of Oranges
    • 1987: An Alien Light (German foreign light , 1995 ISBN 3-453-08576-0 )
    • 1989: Brainrose (German skull rose , 1994 ISBN 3-453-07771-7 )
    • 1993: The Aliens of Earth (short story collection)
    • 1996: Oaths and Miracles (German Verico Target , 1998 ISBN 3-453-13326-9 )
    • 1998: Maximum Light (German In garish light , 2000 ISBN 3-453-16187-4 )
    • 1998: Stinger (German Mosquito , 2001 ISBN 3-453-19658-9 )
    • 1998: Beakers Dozen (short story collection)
    • 1998: Dynamic Characters
    • 1999: Yanked
    • 2003: Nothing Human
    • 2008: Dogs (German Hundewahn , 2012 ISBN 978-3-936922-20-2 )
    • 2008: Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories (short story collection)
    • 2009: Steal Across the Sky

Excellent narratives

  • Out of All Them Bright Stars ( Nebula Award 1986)
  • Beggars in Spain (Nebula Award and Hugo Award 1992)
  • The Flowers of Aulit Prison ( Sturgeon Award 1997, Nebula Award 1998)
  • Probability Space ( Campbell Award 2003)
  • Fountain of Age (Nebula Award 2007)
  • The Erdmann Nexus (Hugo Award 2009)
  • After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall (Nebula Award 2012)

criticism

“Nancy Kress takes ... a lot of time for the intensive - psychologically influenced - representation of her mostly female human figures; She is primarily concerned with cultural and psychological conflicts between the very different urban cultures. In this way, she succeeds in a science fiction that is entirely women-specific, in which sexuality and gender relations, but above all the problem of intercultural communication, have their place. The author convinces with her ingenuity and her ability to generate tension by driving her characters into almost insoluble conflicts with their own traditional ideas ... "

- Lutz Gräfe on foreign light : Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1997 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-11896-0 , p. 793.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nancy Kress: People Matter. In: Locus Online . Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
  2. ^ University of Leipzig: The Picador Guest Professorship for Literature . Retrieved April 14, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Kress, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction - writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York