Ruthanna Emrys
A Half-Built Garden
A Half-Built Garden
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In the future, aliens arrive to save humanity from ecological destruction, but corporations, nation-states, and networks compete to represent humanity. Judy Wallach-Stevens must create understanding to prevent Earth's loss. Emrys' novel portrays a world worth saving and an alien community worth welcoming.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 17 July 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Judy Wallach-Stevens, awoke on a warm March night in 2083 to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She ventured out to investigate, expecting it to be a false alarm, only to stumble upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These extraterrestrial beings had traversed the vast galaxy to save humanity, believing that Earth's people must leave their environmentally devastated planet and join them among the stars. If humanity refused their offer, they might need to be rescued by force.
The watershed networks, which had risen decades earlier to expel the last corporations to a few artificial islands, sought to escape the dominance of nation-states and reorganize humanity around the hope of preserving their world. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they had begun to heal the wounded planet. However, now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vied to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if any one accepted the aliens' offer, Earth could be lost.
With everyone's gaze fixed on the sky, the success of Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her species, hung in the balance. A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Emrys crafted a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth.
A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It may not be the easiest future to construct, but it is one that remains within reach.
Weight: 300g
Dimension: 208 x 135 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781250210999
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