Short Stories/Novellas
Includes works Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling & John Kessel, Susan Casper, Avram Davidson, Keith Roberts, Allen Steele
15th Anniversary Double Issue. April 1992. Cover art by Gary Freeman illustrating "Cleon the Emperor" by Isaac Asimov. ALSO: stories by Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Maureen F. McHugh, Thomas M. Disch, Pat Cadigan and others. One of the best issues ever! Editor: Gardner Dozois.
August 1995. Cover art by Chris Moore, illustrating “Dawn Venus” by G. David Nordley . Other stories in this issue: ” Take Me to the Pilot” by Paul Di Filippo ”The Phantom of Dunwell Cove” by Charles Sheffield ”Rocket Ghosts” by Wil McCarthy ”The Death of Beatrix Potter” by Candyce Byrne ”Fault Lines” by Nancy Kress plus poetry by David Lunde, Bruce Boston, W. Gregory Stewart, Laurel Winter FEATURES “The 1995 Isaac Asimov Award” (editorial) by Sheila Williams; “The Millennium Is Almost Here” (Reflections) by Robert Silverberg; “On Books” (reviews) by Norman Spinrad
As in her Hugo and Nebula-award winning Beggars in Spain, Dancing on Air finds Nancy Kress once more exploring the moral ambiguities of genetic engineering that have become her hallmark. This novella-length chapbook combines an intriguing murder mystery, involving a reporter's investigation into the competitive world of professional ballet, with the thought-provoking science fiction we have come to expect from Nancy Kress. This story is among her finest work. BACK COVER: Like Walter Miller's "The Darfsteller," [Dancing on Air] follows the future of an artform through ethical quagmires. - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Every so often there comes a story which works the old magic that first drew me to the genre as a reader. Dancing on Air is one of those stories. - James Patrick Kelly From her novel An Alien Light to this novella, Dancing on Air, Nancy Kress has again and again made bizarre viewpoints utterly compelling. No matter how peculiar the future is that Kress imagines, her characters face it with human and humane feeling. She is a writer's writer. - Tony Daniel Nancy Kress is one of the best damn storytellers ever. - Jack McDevitt
"One of the best of the year...a compelling novella about a once-famous actress and her devoted manager who get much more publicity of an unfortunate sort when they inadvertently become embroiled with an act of biological terrorism with potentially world-changing results."-Gardner Dozois, Locus ****
"One," by Nancy Kress, is a science fiction novella about an angry young boxer who, after experiencing a concussion in a bout, is able to sense what people are thinking and predict their every move. He finds this useful in boxing but not great for personal relationships and turns to artificial means to deaden the sensations. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.