by Nancy Kress
A decent, if short, story, Yesterday's kin begins when Marianne, an evolutionary geneticist, is taken by the FBI to the UN. She doesn't understand why. Even though she's just made a discovery about human evolution - she helped identify a new sub-group of humans who share a common ancestor who lived ...
Interesting and thoughtful, but fundamentally flawed, Yesterday's Kin is a book that ultimately fell flat for me. There's no question that Nancy Kress is a woman of ideas, it's just that I don't necessarily agree with (or appreciate) all of them.My biggest quibble with the tale is how overwhelmingly...
In New York's Harbor, a strange object sits... Covered by an energy shield and closed off from humans, visitors from another planet refuse to speak with anyone other than the UN. Dr. Marianne Jenner's world is turned upside-down when the FBI show up at the College where she works, at the request of ...
Pretty cool pre-apocalypse book. It gets pretty dark at the end, but there is redemption to be had, of a sort. Certainly a bittersweet end.
Yesterday’s Kin Nancy Kress The aliens arrived four months ago. They touched down next to NYC and immediately shielded the ship with an opaque wall of energy. No one has seen them. No one has conversed with them. All they will say, over and over, is that they are here “To make contact with humani...
Doctor Jenner has been invited aboard the mysterious alien ship that has been floating over New York's shore. The reason is unknown and no one has ever seen the elusive alien race as yet. In fact no one has ever spoken to them other than through computers. Why have they chosen Jenner, and why are t...
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