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YESTERDAY'S KIN

Nancy Kress

Aliens have landed in New York. After several months of no explanations, they finally reveal the reason for their arrival. The news is not good.

Geneticist Marianne Jenner is having a career breakthrough, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Her children Elizabeth and Ryan constantly bicker, agreeing only that an alien conspiracy is in play. Her youngest, Noah, is addicted to a drug that keeps temporarily changing his identity. The Jenner family could not be further apart. But between the four of them, the course of human history will be forever altered.

Earth's most elite scientists have ten months to prevent a disaster—and not everyone is willing to wait.

Nancy Kress is the bestselling author of 20 science-fiction and fantasy novels, including Beggars in Spain, Probability Space, and Steal Across the Sky. Kress is the recipient of the Nebula, Hugo, Sturgeon, and Campbell awards. Her fiction has been translated into multiple languages, including Klingon.
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Published 2014-09-01 by Tachyon Publications

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Science-fiction fans will luxuriate in the dystopian madness, while even nonfans will find an artful critique of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of a greater threat.

Nancy Kress delivers one of the strongest stories of the year to date.... As with all of Kress's work, this is very nicely crafted, with well-paced prose that carries you through the story, complex human characters, a compelling and conflict-driven human story, a clever twist partway through, and an even cleverer twist at the end.” —Gardner Dozois, editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction

Winner of the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Novella and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Nancy Kress has always written stories as accessible to the novice as to the seasoned fan, and "Yesterday's Kin" gets my vote as this summer's most inviting introduction to science fiction for new readers.