Kress, Nancy

Amy, having taken a spot on a reality television program in order to support her terminally-ill grandmother and younger sister, finds herself fighting for her life as the network tries to up their ratings.

Science fiction novel about people who can't age or sleep due to genetic enhancements.

Twenty-one young human volunteers--who answered an Internet ad posted by an alien race called the Atoners--are grouped into threes and sent to seven different planets to witness the wrongs that the aliens caused humanity ten thousand years before.

In the year 2035, ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, and all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. Fifteen-year-old Pete, one of the six children who were born in the Shell, is determined to lead humanity to a new beginning.

Offers advice for fiction writers on how to bridge the gap between the story in their heads and the one that appears on the page, identifying the specific problems associated with beginnings, middles, and endings, and discussing possible solutions to those dilemmas.

America is strongly altered by genetic modifications where ordinary people live in fear of the sleepless, and the world verges on collapse.

Leisha is a beautiful, intelligent genetically modified woman, who is one of the first twenty "Sleepless" on earth that are initially treated as interesting anomalies and, later, as objects of envy and scorn.