Nothing Human

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2003 by Nancy Kress

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Kress, Nancy.

Nothing human / Nancy Kress. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-930846-18-5 (hardcover: alk. paper)

1. Global warming—Fiction. 2. Genetic engineering—Fiction. 3. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3561.R46 N68 2003

813’.54-dc21 2002154974

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First Edition.

Five thousand copies of this book have been printed by the Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, Binghamton, NY, for Golden Gryphon Press, Urbana, IL. The typeset is Electra, printed on 55#Sebago. Typesetting by The Composing Room, Inc., Kimberly, WI.