Books like Yesterday's kin by Nancy Kress
Alien spores have already devastated two worlds and now home in New York, heading toward Earth with deadly intent. Geneticist Marianne Jenner, a mother of three, has ten months to develop a cure and prevent global extinction. Yet her family is fracturing: her siblings, Elizabeth and Ryan, cling to isolationist ideas and suspect alien manipulation, while her youngest, Noah, struggles with a substance that alters his identity. As Earth's leading scientists mobilize, mistrust and internal conflict threaten to derail the desperate quest to secure humanity’s survival.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Nancy Kress
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