At his Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, Stephen Theaker discovers that he loves Nancy Kress’ YESTERDAY’S KIN.

This is the kind of novel I thought they didn’t make any more. Short, but complete in itself, giving clever scientists an intractable problem and an impossible deadline. A fascinating alien culture, psychological insight into our own. And what seems like (to this non-scientist, at least) real science. It’s not a horror story, or a western, or a war story dressed in space clothes, but proper full-blooded science fiction, and I loved it.

Read the rest of Theaker’s review at Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction.

For more on YESTERDAY’S KIN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty.