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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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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 [12362 words]Spinning by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Mystery/Crime]
2. Short [11310 words]Models by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Mystery/Crime]
3. Short [6742 words]Going Native by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
4. Short [7476 words]Kindred Souls by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Mystery/Crime]
5. Short [14098 words]Millennium Babies by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
6. Short [18270 words]The Retrieval Artist by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
7. Short [4343 words]Harvest by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
8. Short [8030 words]The Questing Mind by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
9. Star Trek: Enterprise: By the Book by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
10. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Double Helix Omnibus by John Gregory Betancourt & Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
  1. Star Trek: Voyager: Section 31: Shadow by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
2. Star Trek: Klingon by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
3. Short [7751 words]Searching for the Familiar by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
4. Short [7494 words]Nutball Season by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy/Romance]
5. Short [14331 words]Echea by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
6. Star Trek: The Original Series #78: The Rings of Tautee by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
7. Short [23035 words]Coolhunting by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
8. Short [3695 words]Familiar Territory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
9. Short [9894 words]Chimera by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
10. Very Short [1865 words]Stille Nacht by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Mainstream]

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1 Spinning [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  An obese woman becomes obsessed with losing weight, and after much hard work on the exercise bicycle in a gym "spinning" class, she finds she likes the new attention she gets from men. But her own life is sent spinning when a man she flirts with ends up murdered one day… Edgar Award Nominee

Words: 12362 - Reading Time: 35-49 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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2 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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3 Models [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A photographer caught up in the world of high-pressure high-fashion must find out why her friend has been brutally murdered. Ellery Queen Magazine Reader's Choice Nominee

Words: 11310 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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4 Collateral Damage [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  In a world where children learn about war so that they won't fight each other, the man who teaches children about war commits an atrocity of his own. Only it's not like any atrocity you'd ever expect... (Published: 2004)

Words: 5695 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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5 Duplicate Effort [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Retrieval Artist Miles Flint is on a personal missionto bring down the corrupt law firm of Wagner, Stuart, and Xender. Then a journalist working with him is murdered, and Miles may be next. But before he can begin to investigate, he has a more personal crisis to deal withhis daughter Talia is missing. Taliaone of six clones of Miles long-dead childhas gone off to find the other five. As Miles pursues her, he begins to fear that her search for her sisters and his for the killer are on a collision... more info>>
Category: Science Fiction
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6 Harvest [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  This quiet fantasy about family, quilts, and secrets passed down through generations is one of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most popular stories. First published in Amazing Stories, "Harvest" was later chosen for the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. (Published: 1990)

Words: 4343 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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7 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. (Published: 2003)

Words: 7530 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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8 Kindred Souls [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A woman (who is a nursing home orderly) sees death often enough. But when an elderly cancer patient of some notoriety arrives, she senses that something is strangely wrong about how she has chosen to live out her final days.

Words: 7476 - Reading Time: 21-29 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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9 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>> (Published: 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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10 Star Trek: Enterprise: By the Book [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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. (Published: 2002)
Category: Science Fiction
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11 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Double Helix Omnibus [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by John Gregory Betancourt, Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  This Omnibus collection contains the six Double Helix novels: Infection (#51); Vectors (#52); Red Sector (#53); Quarantine; (#54) Double or Nothing (#55); The First Virtue (#56). Double Helix is the story of the Federation's hardest battle yet--a decades-long war against bio-terrorism. Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestsell... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Category: Science Fiction
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12 Stille Nacht [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  A single mother tries to make a nice Christmas for her daughters (Published: 2004)

Words: 1865 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Mainstream
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13 The Devil's Churn [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  In 1939, a freak storm blew across the village of Dory Cove on the Oregon coast, destroying homes and boats, and leaving three people dead. Young Spence Chadwick was swept into the sea at the treacherous Devil's Churn, a huge cleft in the rocks next to the ocean. His body was never found. Fifty years later, Spence's old sweetheart, Addy, comes across a young man in the yard of her recently deceased mother, a young man who looks just like her beloved Spence did--fifty years ago. At first she cann... more info>> (Published: 1996)

Words: 77855 - Reading Time: 222-311 min.
Category: Horror
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14 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. (Published: 1998)

Words: 8030 - Reading Time: 22-32 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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15 The Retrieval Artist [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  In a future where humans engage in galactic commerce with a multitude of unscrupulous aliens, Earth's mega-corporations are held to strict alien laws, and relatives of corporate executives are often abducted as cruel alien revenge for the slightest business infraction. The only chance for a target to hide ... is to Disappear--erasure of all personal records, genetic alteration, and a new life with a new name in a new place. For an exorbitant fee under non-negotiable terms of employment, private ... more info>> (Published: 2000) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, AnLab Award Nominee

Words: 18270 - Reading Time: 52-73 min.
Category: Science Fiction
817 Reader Ratings:
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16 The Silence [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Written long before the TV series Cold Case, "The Silence" is the ultimate cold case stories. New York City has gone fifteen days without a homocide, and the detectives decide to close their most interesting--and difficult--homocide cases. But are all these strange cases and the lack of murders in the city connected? Or is that simply a science fiction fantasy brought on by coincidence? (Published: 2000) Year's 25 Best Mystery and Crime Stories

Words: 12173 - Reading Time: 34-48 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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17 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. (Published: 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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18 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. (Published: 2004)

Words: 9270 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
Category: Fantasy
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19 Alien Influences [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  The second in a series of stories that eventually became the Arthur C. Clarke nominated novel, Alien Influences. The other stories are "Dancers Like Children," and "Glass Walls." (Published: 1992)

Words: 9669 - Reading Time: 27-38 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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20 Blood Trail [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Detective Wheldon has the opportunity to go into the past to solve a murder. The catch: He cannot change time. All he can do is observe. Is he strong enough to watch the victim die a second time? And will this really help him catch a killer? (Published: 2001)

Words: 10292 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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21 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. (Published: 2000)

Words: 3315 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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22 Cat Nap [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Mr. Triwell found the cat, Missy, on the beach, obviously abandoned by her former owners. But when the owners returned to the beachfront town nearly a year later, they want their cat back. Missy doesn't want to leave--and she has some secrets of her own. (Published: 2003)

Words: 5078 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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23 Chimera [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  Gen lost her entire life in an accident. More importantly, she lost her son Dar. Now she's trying to rebuild. Her psychologist assigns her a chimera--an animal genetically mutated for science, but removed from its experimental roots. Gen and the chimera discover healing--together. (Published: 2000)

Words: 9894 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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24 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
198 Reader Ratings:
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25 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. (Published: 2003) Edgar Award Nominee

Words: 13457 - Reading Time: 38-53 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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