If Tomorrow Comes

Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, Book 2

By: Nancy Kress

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Ten years after the aliens left Earth, humanity has succeeded in building a ship, Friendship, in which to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected: no interplanetary culture, no industrial base, and no cure for the spore disease.

A timeslip in the apparently instantaneous travel between worlds has occurred, and far more than 10 years have passed.

Once again scientists find themselves in a race against time to save humanity and their kind from a deadly virus while a clock of a different sort runs down on a military solution no less deadly to all. Amid devastation and plague come stories of heroism and sacrifice and of genetic destiny and free choice, with its implicit promise of conscious change.

©2018 Nancy Kress (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Story is boring but moves

I continued this trilogy because I want to give the author a chance. Much of the descriptive words just do not add any excitement to the story. There are very exciting places in some of the chapters but too many open or assumed actions by the characters. Spaces of time glanced over or unexplained story lines. Too much emphasis on the inner thoughts of the characters.
Trying to be a fan.
On to the next book!

As good as the first

Lots of ideas. Good story that resists simple dichotomies of good and bad. Story works through a lot of the grey space of social complexity.

Sequel Has Better Feel and Outcome

If Tomorrow Comes definitely has a more positive outlook and less insurmountable odds than the first book in trilogy. The story is very creative and entertaining hard Sci-fi.

The story just gets better

The new characters and personalities made for a tense and interesting story! I enjoyed it.

New Topics Explored in Science Fiction

Really great sci-fi story with solid characters, Army Rangers, leaders, love, and doctors too, of course. Did you ever wonder about viruses circulating in the Milky Way Galaxy? What if some happened upon the path of your world. These books explore some very plausible ramifications of such an encounter. And also, traveling to other solar systems to bring, or find, vaccines. Highly engaging plot. And, The Best narrator performer, Marguerite Gavin, brings it all to life for you.