Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Millennium Babies
    Millennium Babies
    Millennium Babies
    Ebook65 pages53 minutes

    Millennium Babies

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    From the moment of her birth, Brooke Cross was a loser.  Conceived to win a First Baby of the Millennium contest, Brooke came five minutes late.  Her mother never let her forget it.  So Brooke, estranged from her mother, became a history professor and tries to live in obscurity.  Until Professor Eldon Franke recruits her for a study of Millennium Babies, a study that will change her life. 

    Winner of science fiction’s prestigious Hugo Award.

    “Never one for melodrama or overwrought prose, Rusch concentrates instead on the slow and deliberate amassing of insightful, low-keyed incidents and details to serve as the foundation for some neat stefnal conceits.”

    —Asimov’s SF Magazine

    “This is science fiction writing at its best.”

    —EssentialWriters.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateDec 6, 2017
    ISBN9781386409878
    Millennium Babies
    Author

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

    Read more from Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Related to Millennium Babies

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Granted Prayer

      Nov 9, 2020

      A Granted Prayer
      12 min read

    • Article

      Meet the Writer

      May 27, 2023

      Meet the Writer
      4 min read

    • Article

      These Bad Things

      Dec 23, 2019

      These Bad Things
      9 min read

    • Article

      Judy Blume Goes All the Way

      Feb 27, 2023

      Judy Blume Goes All the Way
      25 min read

    • Article

      Mammy Dearest

      Mar 20, 2022

      Noelle McCarthy, the broadcaster, podcaster and journalist, has two obsessions: her mother and Dracula. She has written a memoir, Grand: Becoming my mother’s daughter, in which both characters flounce across the pages, one with fangs wearing a cape,

      8 min read

    • Article

      Absolute Best

      Apr 30, 2021

      Absolute Best
      20 min read

    • Article

      A Plain Little House

      Apr 8, 2019

      The house is real, not imaginary. But it is also a place lodged deep in the imagination, a dream place whose actual coordinates have been forgotten. In the last years of her very long life, my mother’s memory, eroded by time and general anaesthetics,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reading Guide

      Jan 2, 2022

      Summer Reading Guide
      6 min read

    • Article

      This Back Is a Familiar Back

      May 1, 2023

      This Back Is a Familiar Back
      8 min read

    • Article

      Dream Chaser

      Sep 8, 2019

      Dream Chaser
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Quiet Boy

      Jan 28, 2019

      The Quiet Boy
      29 min read

    • Article

      Benjamin Nugent

      Jun 15, 2018

      Claire’s roommates threw her out on November third, for falling behind on rent and hogging the Xbox. During the next three weeks, she lived in other people’s houses. She missed the Xbox, but couch surfing was like a game. She had to not smell like co

      20 min read

    • Article

      laughter, THEN LOSS

      Feb 14, 2024

      laughter, THEN LOSS
      13 min read

    • Article

      Christina Dalcher

      Oct 6, 2021

      SOMETIMES, A WRITER CAN TELL YOU exactly where a book began its journey to publication. That’s the case with Christina Dalcher’s Femlandia, a dystopian take on a women-only society. It sprang into life when she read a synopsis for Charlotte Perkins G

      3 min read

    • Article

      Soul Searching

      Oct 24, 2021

      Soul Searching
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Other Side Of THE FENCE

      Mar 1, 2023

      The Other Side Of THE FENCE
      6 min read

    • Article

      Code of silence

      Nov 1, 2021

      HOUSTON AND GALVESTON, TEXAS, MARCH 2007 Cathy McBroom felt herself unraveling as she drove back to the brick house she shared with her husband, Rex, and youngest son, Caleb, in the quiet Houston suburb of Clear Lake. It was still early on Friday, Ma

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Most Difficult Story I Ever Wrote

      Aug 29, 2019

      It took me more than a dozen years to write. In 2017, I “finished” it. That’s in quotations because it’s a lie—I knew it wasn’t really finished. The post The Most Difficult Story I Ever Wrote appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Welcome to Reliance

      Dec 1, 2021

      Welcome to Reliance
      11 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Millennium Babies

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Millennium Babies - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Millennium Babies

      Millennium Babies

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      WMG Publishing, Inc.

      Contents

      Millennium Babies

      Newsletter Signup

      Also by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      About the Author

      Millennium Babies

      Two weeks into the second semester, she got the message. It had been sent to her house system, and was coded to her real name, Brooke Delacroix, not Brooke Cross, the name she had used since she was 18. At first she didn’t want to open it, thinking it might be another legal conundrum from her mother, so she let the house monitor in the kitchen blink while she prepared dinner .

      She made a hearty dinner, and poured herself a glass of rosé before settling down in front of the living room fireplace. The fireplace was the reason she bought this house. She had fallen in love with the idea that she could sit on cold winter nights under a pile of blankets, a real fire burning nearby, and read the ancient paperbacks she found in Madison’s antique stores. She read a lot of current work on her e-book, especially research for the classes she taught at the university, but she loved to read novels in their paper form, careful not to tear the brittle pages, feeling the weight of bound paper in her hands.

      She had added bookshelves to the house’s dining room for her paper novels, and she had made a few other improvements as well. But she tried to keep the house’s character. It was a hundred-and-fifty years old, built when this part of Wisconsin had been nothing but family farms. The farmland was gone now, divided into five acre plots, but the privacy remained. She loved being out here, in the country, more than anything else. Even though the university provided her job, the house was her world.

      The novel she held was a thin volume, and a favorite—The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald—but on this night, the book didn’t hold her interest. Finally she gave up. If she didn’t hear the damn message, she would be haunted by her mother all night.

      Brooke left the glass of wine and the book on the end table, her blankets curled at the edge of the couch and made her way back to the kitchen. She could have had House play an audio-only version of the message in the living room, but she wanted to see her mother’s face, to know how serious it was this time.

      The monitor was on the west wall beside the microwave. The previous owners—a charming elderly couple—had kept a small television in that spot. On nights like this, Brooke thought the monitor was no improvement.

      She stood in front of it, arms crossed, sighed, and said, House, play message.

      The blinking icon disappeared from the screen. A digital voice she did not recognize said, This message is keyed for Brooke Delacroix only. It will not be played without certification that no one else is in the room.

      She stood. If this was from her mother, her tactics had changed. This sounded official. Brooke made sure she was visible to the built-in camera.

      I’m Brooke, she said, and I’m alone.

      You’re willing to certify this? the strange voice asked her.

      Yes, she said.

      Stand-by for message.

      The screen turned black. She rubbed her hands together. Goose bumps were crawling across her skin. Who would send her an official message?

      This is coded for Brooke Delacroix, a new digital voice said. Personal identification number…

      As the voice rattled off the number, she clenched her fist. Maybe something had happened to her mother. Brooke was, after all, the only next of kin.

      This is Brooke Delacroix, she said. How many more security protocols do we have here?

      Five, House said.

      She felt her shoulders relax as she heard the familiar voice.

      Go around them. I don’t have the time.

      All right, House said. Stand-by.

      She was standing by. Now she wished she had brought her glass of wine into the kitchen. For the first time, she felt as if she needed it.

      Ms. Delacroix? A male voice spoke, and as it did, the monitor filled with an image. A middle-aged man with dark hair and dark eyes stared at a point just beyond her. He had the look of an intellectual, an aesthetic, someone who spent too much

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1