Un court roman de SF dans un hospice de vieux, c’est marrant, malin et surprenant ! #nancykress
https://oublimonami.over-blog.com/2025/12/le-nexus-du-docteur-erdmann-nancy-kress-2016.html

"Nancy Kress has been exploring the possibilities of genetic engineering, human evolution, alien contact, artificial intelligence, and the future of the species for over forty years, with one eye on the bleeding edge of science and the other on the human soul and what makes it bleed. These stories, and the essays that explain her own history and worldview, compose a brief tourist’s guide for the world to come."

https://weightlessbooks.com/not-what-i-intended/

#Books #NancyKress #Collection #Essays #Stories

Not What I Intended

Anyone who thinks that, at an early age, they can plan their entire life is mistaken. Nancy Kress has been exploring the possibilities of genetic engineering, human evolution, alien contact, artificial intelligence, and the future of the species for over forty years, with one eye on the bleeding edge of science and the other on...

Weightless Books
Finished another of my growing collection of gigantic #GardnerDozois anthologies of best short sci fi from a year - this one, 2014. These collections are always so good, and diverse in themes and moods. #NancyKress ends this one on a particularly high note with her terrific novella 'Yesterday's Kin'. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#FinishedReading my first of a subscription to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine. With its wonky printing (page margins randomly shifting, print changing darkness across each page) it feels a bit like samizdat; I don't mind that, but surely they could have done better with the cover (credited only to image corporation Shutterstock). More importantly the stories were solid and entertaining, although not top tier. My favourites were 'The Hidden God' by #TRNapper and 'On the Night Shift' by #ZoharJacobs , one a satirical thriller of AI attaining sentience and declaring class war, the other a fairly realistic story of mission control for a Mars landing trying to work through a climate change induced superstorm on Earth. #NancyKress , one of my favourite short story writers, has part 1 of a 2 part story so I'm intrigued to see where that goes next issue! @scifi
#FinishedReading another brick of best-of-the-year picks of #SF #SciFi short stories selected by #GardnerDozois . These are always good, but the two stories from this 2013 collection that really floored me were both by #NancyKress . I need to seek out more of her work - any fans of her here who can recommend where to start with her longer fiction? #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Nancy Kress' Crossfire (Cosmic Crossfire), over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lhhdiefp7s2s

#KindleBookGiveaway #NancyKress #Crossfire #CosmicCrossfire

Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Nancy Kress' Crossfire (Cosmic Crossfire), which I *have*, but haven't *read*. I got it solely because of the author; if you read it, let me know what you think! Also... fuck, man. FUUUCK #KindleBookGiveaway

Bluesky Social

Kontakt von Nancy Kress wartet mit einer ganz besonderen Kolonisierungsgeschichte auf, in der es um ethische Fragen geht, wie Körperverbesserung, genetische Befriedung, Gewaltlosigkeit. Sehr interessante pflanzliche Aliens, das gefiel mir besonders. Auf der Mankoseite gibt es ewig lange Diskussionen, einen nervigen Tochter-Vater-Konflikt und mir insgesamt zu wenig Tempo. Könnte ich jetzt nicht vorbehaltlos weiter empfehlen.

#sciencefiction #nancykress #Konakt

Das nächste Urlaubsbildchen befasst sich mit der Geschichte des Krieges zwischen Siena und Florenz, es hat sich aber auch meine Lektüre von Nancy Kress' Kontakt hineingeschlichen.

#Urlaubsbildchen #NancyKress

Kontakt von Nancy Kress stammt aus dem Jahr 2003 und es ist faszinierend, wie sehr mir das Fehlen sozialer Netzwerke oder gewisser Mittel zur Arbeitsorganisation auffallen. Der Aufbau einer Kolonie im All ohne Jira-Boards oder Netzwerk -- sowas würde ich heute als erstes hinstellen. Oder zumindest sehr fix nach den essentiellen Dingen.

#nancykress

‘Observer’ blends way-out quantum science and fiction
Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It's a fantastical line of thought that has sparked scientific inquiries as well --- and now the science and the fiction
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/01/09/observer-blends-way-out-quantum-science-and-fiction/
#FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #NancyKress #QuantumMechanics #RobertLanza #ScienceFiction
‘Observer’ blends way-out quantum science and fiction

Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It’s a fantastical line of thought that has sparked scientific inquiries as well — an…

Cosmic Log