β Scribed by Nancy Kress
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Nancy Kress returns with the sequel of Tomorrow's Kin , part of an all-new hard SF trilogy based on a Nebula Award-winning novella
Ten years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity has succeeded in building a ship, Friendship , in which to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected. No interplanetary culture, no industrial base--and no cure for the spore disease.
A timeslip in the apparently instantaneous travel between worlds has occurred and far more than ten years have passed.
Once again scientists find themselves in a race against time to save humanity and their kind from a deadly virus while a clock of a different sort runs down on a military solution no less deadly to all. Amid devastation and plague come stories of heroism and sacrifice and of genetic destiny and free choice, with its...
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