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Featured Novel:
Within every person lies the power to change one world. Within Flora lies the hope for two.
In the isolated rural valley of Terrene, where technology is grown, not manufactured, Flora Karachi paints her anguish with flowers and yearns to travel outside the mountain walls that guard her village. But in a society which values harmony and symmetry above all else, her dangerous curiosity and her indelicate scars, earned from a lifetime of inexplicable blackouts, make her an outcast with few prospects for adventure.
Then the dreams come. Lucid and overpowering, they throw Flora into a fascinatingly advanced world where she lives the life of Jane Ingram, an American scientist fighting global climate change while trying to raise a child in a society where interpersonal interaction is becoming obsolete. Flora’s blackouts open a window into knowledge lost long ago and possibilities that are yet to come. To unravel these mysteries, she must travel to the enigmatic Institute, an ancient enclave hidden in the surrounding mountains, where scholars guard the secrets of Terrene.
Living two lives, Flora will fight to become an Institute scholar in her own world while struggling to save the planet from humanity’s neglect in Jane’s. Yet all of Flora’s courage combined with all of Jane’s experience may not be enough to defeat the powerful forces protecting the secret which ties their two worlds together. To find salvation for both worlds, Jane and Flora must sacrifice their own dreams, conquer their fears, and discover hope for a new beginning.
Hailed as a clever blend between science fiction and fantasy, Terrene explores the challenges of accelerating technology and global climate change through the stories of two remarkable women in two worlds that are not as distant as they seem.
Buy at terrenevalley.com
Author’s Statement:
I believe stories can save the world.
The progress of human civilization is tremendous. In the last two hundred years we have managed to take to the skies, explore the depths of the ocean, and even venture beyond our native planet into space unimagined just a few centuries before. In the last few decades we have flattened the world, freed information from paper, and made our pockets smarter than we are. The possibilities for the future are endless, and yet a great doom looms overhead, for the next century also brings humanity’s greatest challenges.
The world is changing, and our society must be willing to move forward with it. How can we prepare for a future that we cannot imagine? How can we sacrifice and overcome without hope? Our greatest tool is imagination, and its greatest vehicle is the story.
This is why I write. I seek to stimulate the imagination, to open up the possibilities for the future, and to package hope inside entertainment that inspires as well as teaches. I hope you enjoy this book and then go on to save the world in your own way.
- Eric Liu
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Sophie’s World
Brave New World
1984
Democracy in America
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