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2012 Nebula Award Winner2012 Locus Award Winner2013 Hugo Nominee2013 Sturgeon Award NomineeIn the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell.No one knows why the Tesslies attacked in 2014, devastated the environment, and nearly destroyed humanity. Or why the aliens imprisoned twenty-six survivors in a sterile enclosure built on the barren remains of the Earth.Fifteen-year-old Pete, one of only six children born in the Shell, is determined to lead humanity to a new beginning. But Pete struggles to control his anger as, one by one, the survivors sicken and die. Although the Earth appears to be slowly healing, the Shell's inhabitants may not live long enough to see it. The only chance for humanity lies within brief time portals. Peter and the survivors hatch a desperate plan: to increase their numbers by abducting children from the past.
About the Author
Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-three books, including twenty-six novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her fiction has won six Nebulas (for "Out of All Them Bright Stars," "Beggars in Spain," "The Flowers of Aulit Prison," "Fountain of Age," "After the Fall, Before the Fall, and During the Fall,"and "Yesterday's Kin") , two Hugos (for "Beggars in Spain" and "The Erdmann Nexus") , a Sturgeon (for "The Flowers of Aulit Prison") , and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE) . Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Croatian, Korean, Lithuanian, Chinese, Romanian, Japanese, Russian, and Klingon, none of which she can read.In addition to writing, Kress often teaches at various venues around the country and abroad, including a visiting lectureship at the University of Leipzig, a 2017 writing class in Beijing, and the annual intensive workshop Taos Toolbox, which she teaches every summer with Walter Jon Williams. For sixteen years, she was the "Fiction" columnist for WRITER'S DIGEST magazine, and has written three books about writing (see Bibliography) .Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy currently writes science fiction, often about genetic engineering. Her most recent book, IF TOMORROW COMES (Tor, 2018) , is the second in the YESTERDAY'S KIN trilogy, which began with her Nebula-winning novella. The third book, TERRAN TOMORROW, will be released by Tor in November, 2018. The series concerns a deadly epidemic, aliens who are not what they seem, and characters who must grow into positions they never expected to occupy on both a future Earth and a very different planet named World.Kress is married to writer Jack Skillingstead. They live in Seattle with Cosette, the world's most spoiled toy poodle.EVENT NOTE: I do not have the details for upcoming events and this website won't let me post them without such details as "starting minute," so I will just say here that I will be at the Science Fiction Worldcon in San Jose, August 16-19. I will also be Guest of Honor at Capclave in Washington D.C., September 28-30, 2018, and again at Foolscap in Seattle, February 1-3, 2019.
