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Originally Posted by Andanzas
No, unfortunately I missed those freebies. I also missed the fact that Nancy Kress was in Madrid a few days ago, participating in a convention called Grand Dames of Science Fiction. Anyway, I am too busy these days, so I don't think I could have attended even if I knew in time.
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Sorry you missed out. The original
Beggars in Spain novella is one of Kress' very best works, and the expanded trilogy isn't bad (even though I didn't particularly like the direction it ended up going in). But Phoenix Pick does tend to repeat their freebies every so often, so it'll probably turn up again at some point, or one of her other excellent reprint works from them.
If you don't mind online reading/podcasts, perhaps you'd like to try some of her works linked
via the Free Speculative Fiction Online page?
I especially recommend
The Flowers of Aulit Prison (podcast only, unfortunately), which is one of her most lyrical, thoughtful, and thought-provoking pieces on the nature of the perception of reality and the possible biochemical underpinnings of what we think is memory, IMHO. And for a look at the sort of twist-in-the-tail she often likes to put in her stories,
Margin of Error is a good illustrative short.
Brian Stableford
also has an entry, though it mainly consists of his decadent gothic dark fantasy stuff I don't like nearly as much as his genetic engineering works. But the first two stories listed are much closer to his genetic engineering themes and style, in case you wanted to give him a try.