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The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet:"We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one volunteers to visit seven planets to Witness for us. We will convey each volunteer there and back in complete safety. Volunteers must speak English. Send requests for electronic applications to witness@Atoners.com."At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't.This is the story of three of those volunteers, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B.
About the Author
Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-three books, including twenty-six novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her fiction has won six Nebulas (for "Out of All Them Bright Stars," "Beggars in Spain," "The Flowers of Aulit Prison," "Fountain of Age," "After the Fall, Before the Fall, and During the Fall,"and "Yesterday's Kin") , two Hugos (for "Beggars in Spain" and "The Erdmann Nexus") , a Sturgeon (for "The Flowers of Aulit Prison") , and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE) . Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Croatian, Korean, Lithuanian, Chinese, Romanian, Japanese, Russian, and Klingon, none of which she can read.In addition to writing, Kress often teaches at various venues around the country and abroad, including a visiting lectureship at the University of Leipzig, a 2017 writing class in Beijing, and the annual intensive workshop Taos Toolbox, which she teaches every summer with Walter Jon Williams. For sixteen years, she was the "Fiction" columnist for WRITER'S DIGEST magazine, and has written three books about writing (see Bibliography) .Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy currently writes science fiction, often about genetic engineering. Her most recent book, IF TOMORROW COMES (Tor, 2018) , is the second in the YESTERDAY'S KIN trilogy, which began with her Nebula-winning novella. The third book, TERRAN TOMORROW, will be released by Tor in November, 2018. The series concerns a deadly epidemic, aliens who are not what they seem, and characters who must grow into positions they never expected to occupy on both a future Earth and a very different planet named World.Kress is married to writer Jack Skillingstead. They live in Seattle with Cosette, the world's most spoiled toy poodle.EVENT NOTE: I do not have the details for upcoming events and this website won't let me post them without such details as "starting minute," so I will just say here that I will be at the Science Fiction Worldcon in San Jose, August 16-19. I will also be Guest of Honor at Capclave in Washington D.C., September 28-30, 2018, and again at Foolscap in Seattle, February 1-3, 2019.
