
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
by Nancy Kress
About this book
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six—children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell. As, one by one, the survivors grow sick and die, Pete and the Six struggle to put aside their anger at the alien Tesslies in order to find the means to rebuild the earth together. Their only hope lies within brief time-portals into the recent past, where they bring back children to replenish their disappearing gene pool. Meanwhile, in 2013, brilliant mathematician Julie Kahn works with the FBI to solve a series of inexplicable kidnappings. Suddenly her predictive algorithms begin to reveal more than just criminal activity. As she begins to realize her role in the impending catastrophe, simultaneously affecting the Earth and the Shell, Julie closes in on the truth. She and Pete are converging in time upon the future of humanity—a future which might never unfold. Weaving three consecutive time lines to unravel both the mystery of the Earth's destruction and the key to its salvation, this taut post-apocalyptic thriller offers a topical plot with a satisfying twist.
Where to buy
No purchase options available at this time.
More by Nancy Kress

A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women
Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Murphy, Nancy Kress, Anne McCaffrey, Octavia E. Butler, Connie Willis, Vonda N. McIntyre, S.N. Dyer, Katherine MacLean, Sarah Zettel

A Year Without a Winter
Tobias S. Buckell, Nnedi Okorafor, Nancy Kress, Brenda Cooper, Vandana Singh, Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, James Graham, Nadim Samman, Dehlia Hannah, Joey Eschrich, Gillen D'Arcy Wood, David Higgins, Cynthia Selin, Pablo Suarez, Hilairy Hartnett

Act One
Nancy Kress

Alien Contact
Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Murphy, Karen Joy Fowler, Stephen King, Jeffrey Ford, Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Harry Turtledove, Bruce McAllister, Mark W. Tiedemann, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Cory Doctorow, Orson Scott Card, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Moon, Paul McAuley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, George Alec Effinger, Ernest Hogan, Adam-Troy Castro, Molly Gloss, Marty Halpern, Jack Skillingstead