Kress unpacks the future the way DNA investigators unravelled the double helix: one gene at a time. In many of these stories gene sculpting is illegal yet commonplace and the effects range between slow catastrophe (тАЬEnd GameтАЭ), cosmic (тАЬFirst RitesтАЭ), and tragic (тАЬSafeguardтАЭ). Then thereтАЩs the morning when Rochester disappears and Jenny has to rely on тАЬThe Kindness of Strangers.тАЭ ThereтАЩs Jill, who is kidnapped by aliens and trying to learn the тАЬLaws of Survival.тАЭ And thereтАЩs Hope, whose Grandma is regretting the world built тАЬBy Fools Like Me.тАЭ