From the moment of her birth, Brooke Cross felt like 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 tried 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.

“Millennium Babies,” by Hugo Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The story’s also available as an ebook through various online retailers here. It is also available in ebook and paperback in the collection Five for the Winter Holidays, available here.

Millennium Babies

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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