Nancy Kress's "Yesterday’s Kin" takes a pessimistic look at first contact in this examination of human nature in the face of global apocalypse.

“Yesterday’s Kin” is the latest novella from award-winning futurist Nancy Kress.

Nancy Kress

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Tachyon Publications, 2014.

Well, this is a happy little book.

Award-winning futurist Nancy Kressexplores first contact and human nature in this taut novella, where first contact with an alien race is marred by the inevitable extinction of humanity due to an interstellar virus cloud that the Earth…