For The Seattle Times, Nisi Shawl lauds Nancy Kress’ Yesterday’s Kin.

Mitochondrial DNA, personality-altering drugs and clouds of deadly viruses fill the pages of this latest novel by award-winning queen of hard science fiction Nancy Kress. But “Yesterday’s Kin” (Tachyon, 189 pp., $14.95) is more than a catalog of extrapolated technologies; the emotional loads they carry play a central role here. Alternating chapters between the viewpoints of a mother and son, Kress offers a personal take on global catastrophe.

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Her clearly depicted horror at being unable to protect her children from the looming pandemic lends the story’s speedy pace guts and grace, and Noah’s flailing self-justification comes across as expedient and desperate. Sparely constructed and cleverly resolved, “Yesterday’s Kin” provides everything readers need for an immersive plunge into a frightening, fascinating and inescapable predicament.

Read the rest of Shawl’s review at The Seattle Times.

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

Cover by Thomas Canty.