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NANO COMES TO CLIFFORD FALLS AND OTHER STORIES, by Nancy Kress, is now 
available!

Multiple award-winning author Nancy Kress is well known for her novels, 
but all of her awards were for her short fiction, and she is at her best 
in the short form. Most of the stories in this collection have been picked 
for various “Year’s Best” and Reader’s Choice lists. The title story is 
typical of Kress; nanotechnology brings every wish to everyone, and yet 
on the human level problems of a dire nature are created. This is always 
the case with Kress: typically, you get two stories in one: a focus on 
cutting-edge technology and the emotional effects of such technology. In 
many of her stories the pathos of the human condition is explored, where 
humans plant seedlings and have to decide to weed or not weed—that is, to 
play God or let natural selection progress (“My Mother, Dancing”). 
Interfering with a culture, even to save lives, is not so straightforward 
in “”Ej-Es.”  Not all of Kress’s stories end seriously; in “First Flight” 
a Space Cadet shines, in homage to a 50s TV program. Artificial intelligences 
also show in several of the stories, as a persecuted slave of man (“Computer 
Virus”), or as the controlling force of the universe (“Mirror Image”), or 
even as one indifferent to humans at all (“Savior”). There is also hidden 
horror in Kress’s stories, in the method used to handle a sassy sixteen-year-
old (“To Cuddle Amy”). From the center of the galaxy, to explore the nature 
of matter itself (“Shiva in Shadow”) to the swamps of Earth (“Wetlands 
Preserve”) you always get the trademark mix of hard science fiction 
interacting with humanity, with all the resulting emotions. These thirteen 
stories will satisfy old fans of Kress and breed new ones.

NANO COMES TO CLIFFORD FALLS AND OTHER STORIES, by Nancy Kress 
Cover art by Thomas Canty
ISBN 978-1-930846-50-0 / $24.95 (Trade hardcover)
324 pages

---Good to see Golden Gryphon is keeping going even without my recent support. I really need to rectify that!