Tomorrow's Kin
Book 1 of the Yesterday's Kin Trilogy
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Publisher Description
Tomorrow's Kin is the first volume in and all new hard science fiction trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday's Kin.
Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List
The aliens have arrived... they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak with the United Nations. They say that their world is so different from Earth, in terms of gravity and atmosphere, that they cannot leave their ship. The population of Earth has erupted in fear and speculation.
One day Dr. Marianne Jenner, an obscure scientist working with the human genome, receives an invitation that she cannot refuse. The Secret Service arrives at her college to escort her to New York, for she has been invited, along with the Secretary General of the UN and a few other ambassadors, to visit the alien Embassy.
The truth is about to be revealed. Earth’s most elite scientists have ten months to prevent a disaster—and not everyone is willing to wait.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Science fiction doyenne Kress expands her 2014 Nebula Award winning novella, Yesterday's Kin, into this sharply observant family drama that, in the best traditions of SF, functions as entertainment, education, and social commentary. The alien Denebs have come to Earth to warn about an interstellar virus. Dr. Marianne Jenner, an evolutionary biologist, discovers that some humans are related to the aliens. Naturally, they wish to meet their Terran relations. Relocated to the alien floating base in New York Harbor, Marianne joins the effort to find a cure for the virus before it reaches Earth, while her three children react to her collaboration: Elizabeth, a Border Patrol agent, wants the alien energy shield tech; Ryan, a wildlife conservationist, sees the aliens as an invasive species; and knockabout Noah finds himself strangely at home with the Denebs. Some humans seek further contact, while others want vengeance for changes blamed on the Denebs. Kress mixes contemporary issues of isolationism and refugee status with classic SF first-contact tropes, threaded neatly with solid scientific theory and speculation, but she always keeps Marianne and her family at the center of events without making the characters or their decisions too obvious or too noble.
Customer Reviews
Loved it
It was too short. Thankfully it’s a trilogy.