The Best of Nancy Kress by Nancy Kress

Author:Nancy Kress [Kress, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Short Stories
ISBN: 9781596067219
Amazon: 1596067217
Publisher: Subterranean
Published: 2015-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

Afterword to “Casey’s Empire”

This was a very important story to me, and not only because of its content. It garnered me my very first piece of fan mail: a postcard from James Patrick Kelly, who had the generous habit of telling other pros when he liked a story of theirs. Subsequently I met Jim at a convention; he introduced me to John Kessel; together they introduced me to Connie Willis. Thirty-five years later, we are still friends.

At the time I wrote the story, I had just finished my Master’s degree in English, during which I served as a teaching assistant in the English department of the college, teaching freshman composition. Fortunately, several members of that particular department considered science fiction to be genuine literature. Other members did not. In subsequent decades, that situation has changed for the better. Now we are not only accepted but trendy. Who knew?

The process of becoming a writer, for me as for Jerry Casey, is often long and anguished. As for Jerry Casey’s long string of rejection slips—well, every writer is familiar with those. I have saved all of mine.

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