Summary/Review: In 2035, the Earth as we know it is no more. An alien attack by the mysterious ‘Tesslies’ has devastated the planet, transforming it into a poisoned wasteland. A small band of humans have been culled to survive in The Shell, a futuristic shelter installed on the Earth’s damaged surface by the aliens. Damaged by radiation, the survivors are desperate to reproduce, thrive and restart the human race. In 2013, a brilliant statistician working for the FBI is trying to connect the dots between seemingly random kidnappings of young children and bizarre robberies occurring all over the East coast. All the cases, witnesses insist, end in a bright flash of light and the disappearance of the assailant and whatever they were taking. And in 2014, an undetected bacterium is slowly attacking plant life all over the planet.
Nancy Kress is an award-winning science fiction force and this book is a great introduction to her work. Told in the voices of Julie, the FBI analyst and Pete, a teenager born in the Shell, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall weaves together three separate timelines that tell the story of the end of the world as we knew it.
However, it was no where to be found on the ILN. So.....
I went to the author's website to check it out further and she doesn't even mention it. Say what? But she also has a blog. And it turns out to be pretty cool. So here you go:
http://nancykress.blogspot.com/
I will not get on my soapbox because I don't own one. But if we want kids to read we have to do better than this. I tried the Digital collection tonight also and then just gave up after no luck with the first five books on the "Best of" list. Do you think teens would go through all this to get a damn book to read? Well, do you? I'm poor and I can't buy books. But we have folks that are taking home bundles of cash from this town. So.... figure it out!!!!!!!
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