"Quality oozes from every page. A master class in the art of short-story writing." -Kirkus Reviews
"Passions are magnified by age and the world only becomes more unpredictable in Kress's new collection, anchored by the Nebula-winning title novella. The nine stories, published over the course of just two years, wrestle with themes of love, death, and transformation. . . . Kress's depiction of science is much like her characters' experiences with love: by turns glorious and terrible, and always a little disturbing, even in triumph." -Publishers Weekly
Praise for Nancy Kress's previous books:
"Nancy Kress Has the true storyteller's Gift-the ability to make her characters and what happens to them so vital that the reader's heart aches." -Stephen R. Donaldson
"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." -Gene Wolfe
"Nancy Kress has written a novel that graphically disects the roots of human violence while affirming the invincibility of the human spirit. An Alien Light is both provocative and insightful." -Julian May
"Kress's villains are not diabolical conspirators but willfully ignorant hypocrites, shortsighted and greedy dunderheads, the well-intentioned half-baked-in short, us. But we are also the heroes whose generosity, honesty and energy could turn our lemming tribe away from the polluted waters ahead." -Washington Post
"The plotting is fast-paced, the characterization is good, and science explained in easily digestible portions." -New Scientist
"The kind of thriller that continually makes you want to turn the pages faster than you can read them." -SF Site
"That Kress remains a master is everywhere evident." -Booklist
"The keeness of vision to. . . see the possibilities for the future very clearly, and they are both fascinating and frightening." -San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
