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Champion of the 2012  Nebula Novella Award The year is 2035. 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are caught by an alien race in a clean housing referred to as the Covering, after the Earth was nearly destroyed by ecological disasters. Fifteen-year-old Pete is among the Six—children who have been elevated in the Covering and born deformed or clean. To be able to discover together the way to repair our planet as, 1 by 1, the children grow ill and die, Pete and the Six battle to reserve their frustration in the unfamiliar Tesslies.