num_pages: 291
description: Candidia Maria Smith-Foster, an eleven-year-old girl, is unaware that she's a Homo post hominem, mankind's next evolutionary step. With international relations rapidly deteriorating, Candy's father, publicly a small-town pathologist but secretly a government biowarfare expert, is called to Washington. Candy remains at home.The following day a worldwide attack, featuring a bionuclear plague, wipes out virtually all of humanity (i.e., Homo sapiens). With her pet bird Terry, she survives the attack in the shelter beneath their house. Emerging three months later, she learns of her genetic heritage and sets off to search for others of her kind.
language: English
title: Emergence
titlecomplete: Emergence
genres: Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 1983
series: The Emergence Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel and Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Philip K. Dick Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Compton Crook Award
publisher: Bantam Books