Science-fiction superstar and multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress comes to YA in this brain-twisting thriller
"How far would you go?"
The Collapse has ransacked the economy, making work almost impossible to find and forcing Amy from college hopeful to sole provider for her ter[...]

Create Complex CharactersHow do you create a main character readers won't forget? How do you write a book in multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers (or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a character's past into a story?"Write Great Fiction: Characters[...]

Get Your Readers' Attention-And Keep It-From the First World to the Final Page Translating that initial flash of inspiration into a complete story requires careful crafting. So how do you keep your story from beginning slowly, floundering midway, and trailing off at the end? Nancy Kress shows you ef[...]

The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors -- the last of humanity -- are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six -- children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell. As, [...]