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Nancy's most recent short stories have been "The Rules" (Asimov's, December '07), "Laws of Survival" (Jim Baen's Universe, December '07), and "Sex and Violence" (Asimov's, February '08).

Four stories of Nancy's were chosen for Best of the Year volumes -- and they are four different stories, which somewhat bemused her. Gardner Dozois chose "Laws of Survival." Rich Horton picked "Art of War" (The New Space Opera, ed. Strahan and Dozois). Jonathan Strahan tapped "By Fools Like Me" (Asimov's, September '07) and David Hartwell chose "End Game" (Asimov's, April/May '07).

Nancy also has two Asimov's stories on the Nebula preliminary ballot: "Fountain of Age" and "Safeguard."

Forthcoming in 2008, sometime or other, are "Call Back Yesterday" (Asimov's) and "First Rites" (Jim Baen's Universe).

Nancy spent a lot of time in the last few years writing short fiction! She is also now a monthly columnist for Science Fiction World magazine, published in Chengdu, China. Her column concerns aspects of writing SF.

Personal Appearances

   

2008 will be a year full of traveling. April 19-20 Nancy will attend Eericon 10, in Niagara Falls, NY.

A few days later she will fly to Austin, TX for the Nebulas.

May 18-20 she conducts a workshop and does a reading in Seattle, both for Leslie Howle's New Media Arts.

July 6-12 she is writer-in-residence for Odyssey, in NH.

August brings Denvention, the Denver Worldcon.

Most interesting of all, Nancy has accepted the Picador Guest Lectureship at the University of Leipzig in Germany. She will be there from mid-October 2008 to mid-January 2009, teaching both SF and creative writing. Fortunately, she will be allowed to lecture in English.

 

Book News

 

In 2007 and 2008, Nancy will have three new books out! Her short-story collection, as yet untitled, will be published by Golden Gryphon Press. It will include 140,000 words of fiction, including the Nebula-nominated "My Mother, Dancing" and several stories that appeared in various best-of-the-year anthologies.

Tor will release a new SF novel, STEAL ACROSS THE SKY. Aliens land on the moon and announce that 10,000 years ago, they committed a terrible crime against humanity. But they will not tell us what it is -- because they want to show us instead.

An SF thriller, DOGS, will appear from Tachyon Press. A strange plague has appeared in a small Maryland town. Like avian flu, it's spread by animals: pet dogs, which the government wants to round up and destroy -- even if not all of these pets seem infected yet. Which suggests, of course, that more is going on than meets the eye.


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