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Ej-Es

Nancy Kress

First published August 2003
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Notes

7199 words (source: Lightspeed magazine)

The title of Ej-Es by Nancy Kress is listed as "Ej-Es" when published in Lightspeed. Within the story it's "Ej-es" most of the time and "ej-es" once. It's an utterance, word, or phrase in an unknown, alien to Earth, language.

In the e-book version of STARS it's EJ-ES on both the ToC and start of story.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2004 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Nominee/Finalist

Publications (19)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 2003 Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian DAW Books Anthology 319
June 2004 Year's Best SF 9 Eos / HarperCollins Anthology 74
June 2004 Year's Best SF 9 Eos / HarperCollins / SFBC Anthology 74
July 2004 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 108
July 2004 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 127
July 2004 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 108
September 2004 Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian DAW Books Anthology 329
November 2004 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 118
July 2007 Escape Pod, EP116 Escape Artists, Inc. MAGAZINE
May 2008 Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories Golden Gryphon Press Collection 150
October 2009 Year's Best SF 9 HarperCollins e-books Anthology |74
November 2010 Lightspeed, November 2010 Prime Books MAGAZINE |8
November 2010 Lightspeed Podcast, November 2010 Prime Books MAGAZINE |3
September 2011 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |118
November 2011 Lightspeed: Year One Prime Books Anthology 289
January 2014 Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian Lucky Bat Books Anthology |20
January 2014 Stars: The Anthology Lucky Bat Books Anthology
October 2014 The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women Robinson Anthology
December 2014 The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women Running Press Anthology 283