Nancy Kress
9 Quotations from Nancy Kress
| cycle n. | 1988 Alien Light i. 275 I watched you in the Hall of Teaching, the first time Grax brought the small enlarger. Cycles and cycles ago. You took a cell sample from your inner cheek by scraping it with your knife. |
| Luna City n. | 2001 Probability Sun 35 You've never been to Luna City before. |
| mutie n. | 2009 Act One in Asimov’s Science Fiction Mar. 39 By nightfall the rioting had subsided, damped down by rumors that ‘muties’ were secretly roaming the streets, infecting everyone. |
| planetquake n. | 2000 Probability Moon xxix. 312 The three of them scuttled backward. Bazargan tried not to think what might happen if the wave caused a planetquake and the cave collapsed. |
| replicant n. 1 | 2004 My Mother, Dancing in Asimov’s Science Fiction June 14 ‘We have one new replicant with us on the ship.’ ‘Welcome new replicant!’ we say, and there is more rejoicing. |
| space tunnel n. | 2000 Probability Moon 35 And it, too, had at first looked like a small moon. But it had been a space tunnel, a wormhole transport point to a vast mappable net of usable tunnels. When a spaceship got itself laboriously out to Neptune and maneuvered inside Space Tunnel #1, it emerged elsewhere in the galaxy, directly outside a planetary system…and very near yet another space tunnel. |
| system-wide adj. | 2007 Fountain of Age in Asimov’s Science Fiction July 96 A system-wide background check wouldn’t hold, but why should anyone do a system-wide background check on a cleaning supervisor? |
| xenoanthropology n. | 2000 Probability Moon 57 When he returned to Princeton, he would be an instant star in the small, fiercely coveted world of xenoanthropology. |
| xenolinguist n. | 2000 Probability Moon 42 The Anaconda, Martian physicists decided, had had a Schwarzschild radius—defined as the radius below which, if you squeezed the mass, it would become a black hole—larger than the tunnel’s capacity to handle. From the disaster, xenolinguists had learned the meaning of the alien marking for ‘disruption’. |