Analog "It should now be clear to all that Nancy Kress is a dominant figure in modern
science fiction." Gene Wolfe "Nancy Kress comprehends the grimy relationships among bioscience,
technology, and politics; and soon we will too, if only enough of us read her. Too soon it cannot be." Philadelphia Inquirer "Kress is a fine storyteller, and her work explorers some compelling questions." Amarillo News-Globe "A writer who has something more than a yarn to spin, she takes on important social, philosophical, and political issues, showing both the bright and dark sides of what
humanity could come to in the near future." Commonweal "An assertion about the ineradicable goodness
of people that reminds me of what SF at its best - as in H. G. Wells - can be." Lisa Goldstein "Kress uses elegant, eloquent prose, wonderful and believable characters, and fascinating speculation, to come to grips with some of the most troubling questions of the late twentieth
century - technology, freedom, love, and law - and manages to tell a gripping story at the same time. Read this." | 
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