Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
After the fall, before the fall, during the fall
Call Number
- SCIENCE FICTION KRES (CEN)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
San Francisco : Tachyon, 2012.
Physical Description
189 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the six children who were born in the Shell. Though he possesses birth defects common to the Six, including sterility, Pete is resolved to lead humanity to a new beginning. However, as the adults of the Shell grow mysteriously sick and die one-by-one, Pete struggles to control his dangerous anger at the aliens. Though the Earth appears to be slowly healing itself, the survivors may not live long enough to repopulate it. Their only hope lies within randomly brief time-portals into the recent past, where Pete and the Six are abducting children to increase their gene pool.