In the near future, humanity is dwindling in a world populated by the elderly, as less and less children are born due to the accumulation of endocrine disrupting chemicals that permeate the earth. This is an issue that I have recently become quite vocal about, all the plastics and pesticides and who knows what else leaching into the systems of life, in our water supply, our soil, our bodies. It may be decades before the ramifications are known, and by then it will be far too late.

You pretty much can't go wrong reading a Nancy Kress novel, she writes with a sophistication that makes it easy to believe her story is going to be 15% smarter than anything else you might have chosen. For the most part, the tech and extrapolation hold up over the years since publication (16+). It is not a simple thing to pass the test of time, but I am not surprised this does.