Bibliograph

After the fall, before the fall, during the fall, [Nancy Kress]

Type

Label

After the fall, before the fall, during the fall, [Nancy Kress]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

After the fall, before the fall, during the fall

Oclc number

757472336

Responsibility statement

[Nancy Kress]

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 one by one the adults of the Shell grow mysteriously sick and die, 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."--Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification