Yesterday's Kin

Awards:   Short-listed for Locus Awards (Novella) 2015
Author:   Nancy Kress
Publisher:   Tachyon Publications
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9781616961756


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 September 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Yesterday's Kin


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  • Short-listed for Locus Awards (Novella) 2015

Overview

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.

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Author:   Nancy Kress
Publisher:   Tachyon Publications
Imprint:   Tachyon Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.156kg
ISBN:  

9781616961756


ISBN 10:   1616961759
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 September 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Kress, a witty and engaging writer, creates chilling suspense as twisty as a DNA double helix. --Publishers Weekly Her style is devilishly inventive... --CNN.com Nancy Kress is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Her use of science is tricky and thought-provoking, her command of fiction sharp and full of feeling. --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt Praise for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Nebula- and Hugo-winner Kress mixes time travel, global catastrophe, and mysterious aliens in this strong post-apocalyptic tale... Kress handles the crisscrossing timelines with cool elegance. --Publishers Weekly After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall is a highly intelligent, sublimely understated glimpse into humankind's future--it's comparable in thematic impact to Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, and that is saying something. --Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble.com An ecological apocalypse so real that it's like a three-dimensional object that can be viewed from all sides. --Ted Kosmatka, author of The Games and The Ascendant ...haunting, memorable... Absolutely recommended. --The Book Smugglers Superstar SF and fantasy author Nancy Kress returns with After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, an elegant novella that combines several wildly different science fiction ideas into a tight package. --Tor.com ...three narrative lines eventually converge and complement each other, and Kress handles this with her usual superior craftsmanship. --Locus This is Nancy Kress in top form, but more importantly, this is SF done right... I don't know of another writer who balances the global and the personal with such skill. --Daryl Gregory, author of Unpossible and Afterparty


... fascinating, intelligent and intuitive... Yesterday's Kin is highly recommended. --Nerds in Babeland Praise for Nancy Kress Kress, a witty and engaging writer, creates chilling suspense as twisty as a DNA double helix. --Publishers Weekly Her style is devilishly inventive... --CNN.com Nancy Kress is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Her use of science is tricky and thought-provoking, her command of fiction sharp and full of feeling. --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt Praise for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Nebula- and Hugo-winner Kress mixes time travel, global catastrophe, and mysterious aliens in this strong post-apocalyptic tale... Kress handles the crisscrossing timelines with cool elegance. --Publishers Weekly After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall is a highly intelligent, sublimely understated glimpse into humankind's future--it's comparable in thematic impact to Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, and that is saying something. --Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble.com An ecological apocalypse so real that it's like a three-dimensional object that can be viewed from all sides. --Ted Kosmatka, author of The Games and The Ascendant ...haunting, memorable... Absolutely recommended. --The Book Smugglers Superstar SF and fantasy author Nancy Kress returns with After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, an elegant novella that combines several wildly different science fiction ideas into a tight package. --Tor.com ...three narrative lines eventually converge and complement each other, and Kress handles this with her usual superior craftsmanship. --Locus This is Nancy Kress in top form, but more importantly, this is SF done right... I don't know of another writer who balances the global and the personal with such skill. --Daryl Gregory, author of Unpossible and Afterparty


Kress, a witty and engaging writer, creates chilling suspense as twisty as a DNA double helix. -- Publishers Weekly Her style is devilishly inventive.... --CNN.com Nancy Kress is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Her use of science is tricky and thought-provoking, her command of fiction sharp and full of feeling. --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt Praise for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Nebula- and Hugo-winner Kress mixes time travel, global catastrophe, and mysterious aliens in this strong post-apocalyptic tale.... Kress handles the crisscrossing timelines with cool elegance. -- Publishers Weekly After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall is a highly intelligent, sublimely understated glimpse into humankind's future--it's comparable in thematic impact to Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s classic A Canticle for Leibowitz , and that is saying something. --Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble.com An ecological apocalypse so real that it's like a three-dimensional object that can be viewed from all sides. --Ted Kosmatka, author of The Games and The Ascendant . ..haunting, memorable.... Absolutely recommended. -- The Book Smugglers Superstar SF and fantasy author Nancy Kress returns with After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall , an elegant novella that combines several wildly different science fiction ideas into a tight package. -- Tor.com . ..three narrative lines eventually converge and complement each other, and Kress handles this with her usual superior craftsmanship. -- Locus This is Nancy Kress in top form, but more importantly, this is SF done right.... I don't know of another writer who balances the global and the personal with such skill. --Daryl Gregory, author of Unpossible and Afterparty


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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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