by Nancy Kress
OK-the one sentence version of this book is that some aliens thousands of years ago altered our genes and kidnapped some humans and repopulated a few other planets with them in sort of a 'double-blind' study where some were left with the gene that allowed us to communicate with the recently deceased...
You don't know for sure what's going on here! There are strange things in the universe!"Cam O'Kane's right, there are plenty of unknowns in the universe, and I'll add Steal Across the Sky to the list of mysteries. The book disappointed me. Nancy Kress has written books on writing fiction. She's won ...
The novel was a study of how humans can be self-serving while appearing self-sacrificing, while concurrently serving as a foil for the same theme for in an alien race. It was slow but it had great ideas. The big idea was strong enough to maintain tension throughout. Fairly strong characters, too. W...
I don't know, I don't know... The background story is, of course, just my cup of tea: First contact (yay!) turns out to be second contact (oooh!) - the aliens have been here before, and they feel the need to atone for some wrong they did mankind thousands of years ago. So far, so awesome. They sele...
Despite some annoying characters, this was an exciting ride to other planets and then back for the aftermath. Mysterious impervious aliens have come to atone for something - a contest sends witnesses to a series of planets in order to let them learn what it is the Atoners had done to the human race...
In the not-very-distant future, aliens calling themselves The Atoners contact humanity. Millenia ago, they wronged humanity--and now they want humanity to know about it. They choose a few dozen people to travel to colonies of humans the Atoners established around the universe, and "Witness." What...
I like the concept of BEGGARS IN SPAIN, so I picked this up off the new shelf.***I never knew what might happen next
Nancy Kress’s novel Steal Across the Sky feels like two distinct books. The first is anthropological science fiction in the tradition of Ursula LeGuin: twenty-one “Witnesses” from Earth are sent by an alien race calling themselves “Atoners” to visit seven pairs of planets where humans were placed 10...
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