At Nerds in Babeland, Prof. Jenn highly recommends Nancy Kress’ Yesterday’s Kin.

Yesterday’s Kin is a novelette which takes us on a breakneck pace through the philosophical, scientific, and psychological implications of a near-future contact with alien life. They come in peace, they come with some scientific advancements but not totally all-powerful, and we experience them through the POV of a prominent scientist and her flighty, dreamy, ne’er-do-well son. What the aliens’ actual purpose is for parking in New York Harbor and what happens to the people of Earth (and what will happen) is a fascinating, intelligent and intuitive discussion of the old “are we alone” question of so much sci fi.

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Bottom Line: Yesterday’s Kin is highly recommended. I read it through in one sitting. I think it’d make a great move…

For more info on Yesterday’s Kin, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty.