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Bio: Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, science fiction, and fantasy writer. Her novella, The Gallery of His Dreams, won the Locus Award for best short fiction. Her body of fiction work won her the John W. Campbell Award, given in 1991 in Europe. She has been nominated for several dozen fiction awards, and her short work has been reprinted in six Year's Best collections.

In 1999, her story, "Echea," (available here at Fictionwise) was nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. It won the Homer Award and the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. In 1999, she also won the Ellery Queen Reader's Choice Award and the Science Fiction Age Reader's Choice Award, making her the first writer to win three different reader's choice awards for three different stories in two different genres in the same year.

She has published twenty novels under her own name and fifty total, including pseudonymous books. Her novels have been published in seven languages, and have spent several weeks on The USA Today Bestseller list and The Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. She has written a number of Star Trek novels with her husband, Dean Wesley Smith, including a book in this summer's crossover series called New Earth.

Under the name Kris Nelscott, she has just published a mystery novel titled A Dangerous Road. St. Martins Press released it to rave reviews.

She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She won a Hugo for her work there. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene.

She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.


1. Short [14331 words]Echea by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
2. Short [6742 words]Going Native by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
3. Very Short [2973 words]Results by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
4. Short [6486 words]Sparks in a Cold War by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
5. Short [9169 words]Destiny by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
6. Short [3315 words]Burial Detail by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Dark Fantasy]
7. Short [23035 words]Coolhunting by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
8. Short [7530 words]Homecoming by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
9. Short [9270 words]After the Fall by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
10. Short [10911 words]Strange Creatures by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
  1. Star Trek: The Original Series #78: The Rings of Tautee by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
2. Star Trek: Voyager: Section 31: Shadow by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
3. Star Trek: Klingon by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
4. Short [7494 words]Nutball Season by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy/Romance]
5. Short [7751 words]Searching for the Familiar by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
6. Very Short [1865 words]Stille Nacht by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Mainstream]
7. Short [14331 words]Echea by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
8. Short [3695 words]Familiar Territory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
9. Star Trek: Voyager #15: Echoes by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Nina Kiriki Hoffman [Science Fiction]
10. Short [23035 words]Coolhunting by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]

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1 Echea [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A couple decides to adopt a starving refugee child from a war-torn city. The unusual thing is that the war-torn city happens to be on the moon. Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, HOMer Award Winner, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee

Words: 14331 - Reading Time: 40-57 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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2 What Fluffy Knew [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A pampered housecat saves the world in 'What Fluffy Knew,' a grimly whimsical tale by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 1998

Words: 3196 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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3 After the Fall [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Pete hates dogs. But one afternoon, while hiking, he falls down the side of a cliff. Will he live or die? It all depends on ... dogs. 2004

Words: 9270 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
Category: Fantasy
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4 Homecoming [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Fortran comes back from the very first long distance space flight to immediate arrest. Even though he has no family and no heirs, Fortran finds himself entangled in a paternity suit that has waiting more than a century to snare him. 2003

Words: 7530 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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5 Judgement [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  In Kristine Kathryn Rusch's 'Judgement', Tyrone Briggs was lured into the human world by the music of the Meistersinger of Nuremberg, Hans Sachs. Now, after centuries away, he finds himself back in the city, as a photographer at the Nazi trials. He finds that it is not only the war criminals that are being judged. 2004

Words: 5260 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy
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6 The Assassin's Dagger [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A corporate troubleshooter must close down a black magic shop. Along the way, she discovers ancient magic and something that's always been missing in her life. 2004

Words: 9898 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
Category: Fantasy
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7 Stille Nacht [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A single mother tries to make a nice Christmas for her daughters 2004

Words: 1865 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Mainstream
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8 Sparks in a Cold War [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Bryer organizes hunting expeditions to strange alien worlds. On this trip, three difficult women ignore his recommendations and complete an action that might start a war. Bryer, somehow, must stop them. 2003

Words: 6486 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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9 Results [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  An engaged couple undergoes extensive genetic testing to ensure that their progeny will be above average. Short story that poignantly explores issues of genetic testing, parenthood, and issues that society will soon face.

Words: 2973 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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10 Going Native [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  In an age where travel is primarily by teleportation, a reporter must journey the old fashioned way (by train) to report on the annual meeting of a group of luddites who are against the use of teleporters.

Words: 6742 - Reading Time: 19-26 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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11 Coolhunting [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  She was a coolhunter with forty different legal identities. Her job: to drive fads; to find the "next cool thing" five to ten times per week. She was one of the best. Entire corporations rose and fell under her influence. But then some really uncool things start to happen…

Words: 23035 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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12 A Time for Every Purpose [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Time Force homocide detective Mike Shaunessy travels back to 1994 to prevent Ray Rothke from committing the first of his 25 murders. Mike knows that if the first crime is prevented, the others usually are too ... and maybe his daughter will be waiting for him when he returns. 1990 Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Year's 25 Best Mystery and Crime Stories

Words: 12475 - Reading Time: 35-49 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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13 Millennium Babies [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  It is thirty years since the turn of the second millennium, and University of Wisconsin professor Brooke Cross is approached by a colleague in the sociology department to participate in his study of successful--and unsuccessful--Millennium Babies. Brooke was one of the unsuccessful ones. She was born at five minutes past midnight 2000, and the extra four minutes cost her mother the fame and fortune of having the first baby of the new millenium--and has never let her forget it. As Brooke progress... more info>> 2000 Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee

Words: 14098 - Reading Time: 40-56 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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14 Destiny [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A rarity--a short story written in Rusch's popular Fey universe. "Destiny" is a prequel to the Fey novels. The shape-shifter Solanda must choose between an enemy's child and going to war. 2000

Words: 9169 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Fantasy
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15 Burial Detail [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  In the shadow of the American Civil War, a freed slave is trying to earn money by burying the dead at Cold Harbor ... and hides a secret that makes his burial detail one of the most horrible jobs of his life. 2000

Words: 3315 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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16 The Questing Mind [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Someone is stealing J. Reed Brasher's memories. The doctors don't seem to care; Brasher is old, and old people often forget. But Brasher knows that the loss is actual theft and he decides to prove it. Tangent Magazine chose "The Questing Mind" as one of the ten best science fiction stories of 1998. 1998

Words: 8030 - Reading Time: 22-32 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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17 Saving Face [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A woman enters Winston's magic shop seeking a new face. Winston has small magic and tells her he lacks the power. Next thing he knows, she winds up dead. Is it his fault for refusing her? And can he solve a magical murder without revealing his own identity to the police? A stand-alone story about the characters who first appeared in "Familiar Territory." 2000

Words: 9023 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
Category: Fantasy
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18 Familiar Territory [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Winston's familiar, an elderly black cat named Buster, has a last wish: He wants a Viking funeral. Winston, a shy man who is on the run from the police, doesn't want to call attention to himself in his new hometown, but he promised his old friend that last wish. Now Winston has a two-pronged dilemma: how to perform magic without his familiar and how to send a burning long boat out to sea without being arrested. A gentle story about love and funerals. 1997

Words: 3695 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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19 Star Trek: Enterprise: By the Book [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  The Fazi, whose ultraregulated culture ranges from strict conversation protocols to unvarying building designs, inhabit half of a planet discovered by the Enterprise. But after a disastrous first contact with the ruler of the Fazi, Archer must depend on Vulcan science officer T'Pol and communication specialist Hoshi Sato to help him mend relations with the people of this planet, and unravel the mystery of the other creatures living on the world. 2002
Category: Science Fiction
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20 Star Trek: The Next Generation #41: Invasion! #2: The Soldiers of Fear [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Long ago, before the dawn of civilization, they were banished to the realm of nightmares. Now the terrors are real.... A generation ago, another Starship Enterprise fought off a ship of exiled aliens intent on conquering all of the Alpha Quadrant. Starfleet thought the foe had been repelled forever--until now. The Furies have returned in might warships even more powerful than before. But their weapons are more than merely physical, for these aliens are the origins of all the demons and monsters ... more info>> 1999
Category: Science Fiction
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21 Star Trek: The Original Series #78: The Rings of Tautee [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  The mischievous creature who calls himself Q has subjected Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise to many of their strangest experiences. But little had been known of Q's curious existence or that of the advanced dimension from which he comes. But now Picard knows more than he ever dreamed about an ancient conflict whose consequences might spell the doom of the entire galaxy. The galactic barrier has fallen and Q's oldest enemy is free once more. Captain Picard and his c... more info>> 1996
Category: Science Fiction
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22 The Light in Whale Cove [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  From the same cycle of stories that produced "Strange Creatures" and the "Women of Whale Rock" (also on Fictionwise) and the novel Fantasy Life (November 2003) comes the tale of a haunted lighthouse on the Oregon Coast. People have always died at the lighthouse on Whale Cove. Now, on the eve of the lighthouse's reopening, Dan Retsler and his small town team must stop the haunting to prevent even more deaths. 2002

Words: 10906 - Reading Time: 31-43 min.
Category: Fantasy
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23 Cowboy Grace [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  One of this year's Edgar nominees for best short story, "Cowboy Grace" is a tale of a woman who starts a new life, only to be haunted by her old one. 2003 Edgar Award Nominee

Words: 13457 - Reading Time: 38-53 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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24 Fit to Print [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  New York Times reporter Frank Butler goes to the family homestead on the Oregon Coast