Book View Cafe Readings: Nest by Kristine Smith

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Today’s reading is an excerpt from Nest, by Kristine Smith

BSQ Issue #16 includes Kristine Smith’s Nest

Kristine Smith is an Astounding Award winner and the author of the Jani Kilian series and other science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories under her own name.

As Alex Gordon, she has written the supernatural thrillers Gideon and Jericho.

Her fiction has been nominated for the Locus Award for First Novel, Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and she was the 2001 winner of the Astounding Award (formerly the John W. Campbell Award) for Best New Writer.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she spent 26 years working in pharmaceutical product R&D. She currently lives in the Midwest.

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