Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy KressMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is about a 3.7 rounded up. I for one think Nancy Kress is getting better as she writes more. This is an excellent expansion on Yesterday's Kin, with a lot of satisfying plot twists. The early part will look familiar to those who read number 0.5, but the story is taken further and effectively delivered. Socially it's very current, extrapolating on our current inability to face any sort of disagreeable fact with anything more than a knee-jerk blaming of someone identifiably Other. But there's some perspicacious breakdown of that reaction, also--it's harder to be reasonable when you have lost someone close to you, or have no room for setbacks. Having the "Denebs" be fully human, including acting that way, is leaving lots of room for good storytelling. I'm pretty sure I'll be back for the next one.
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