Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test.
The Sumner family can read the signs - the droughts and floods, the blighted crops and, above all, the increasing sterility point to one thing. Their farm in the Appalachians provides the ideal place to survive the coming breakdown - but men and women must clone themselves for...