If Tomorrow Comes

✍ Scribed by Kress, Nancy

• Book ID: 109733641
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 949 KB
• Series: Yesterday's Kin 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780765390325

✦ Synopsis

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...