Nancy Kress
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin volume 3
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The diplomatic mission from Earth to World ended in disaster, as the Earth's scientists discovered that the Worlders were not the scientifically advanced culture they believed. Though they brought a limited quantity of the vaccine against the deadly spore cloud, there was no way to make enough to vaccinate more than a few dozen, and the Earth scientists and surviving diplomats fled back to Earth. Once home, after the twenty-eight-year gap caused...
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity succeeds in building a ship, Friendship, 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...
3) Sea change
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 2022, GMOs were banned. A biopharmaceutical caused the Catastrophe: worldwide economic and agricultural collapse, and personal tragedy for lawyer Caroline Denton and her son. Ten years later, as Renata Black, she is a member of the Org, an underground group of scientists hunted by the feds. But the Org's illegal food-research might just hold the key to rebuilding the worlds' food supply."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
5) Observer
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the...
Series
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships - romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrow's series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together. The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecutre, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts...
7) Rip-off!
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen short stories from some of the best and most honored writers of speculative fiction.