For thousands of years, a family of women has been gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) nudging scientific advancement forward. They're now on the 99th generation, and in the waning days of World War II, are creeping up on their goal of "sending them to the stars," though who exactly "them" refers to is unclear. Unfortunately, there's a similar competing family of men that has been chasing, and attempting to wipe out, the generations of women for as long as they can remember, and these trackers are getting closer to their goal too.
This is an intriguing take on the post-WWII scientific advances, particularly the Space Race and competing missile innovations of the U.S., Germany, and U.S.S.R. I'm not entirely sure what I think of the clone/spy-vs-spy feel of the not-quite-human men and women, but it's certainly interesting.
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