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New Sci Fi - Egan, Greg Titles 2000

Greg Egan Teranesia Pbk published August 2000 by Millenium at £5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-864-7

Prabir Suresh is nine years old and the son of two scientists specialising in entomology. They live on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian ocean. The island has no real name, but Prabir calls it Teranesia and populates it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying.
Thirty years into the third millennium, the discovery of bizarre new species on and around Teranesia draws Prabir's biologist sister Maddy back to the island. Prabir has reasons of his own for fearing what she might find there and persuades a pharmaceutical researcher on the lookout for biological bounty to take him along as her guide.
Who will get there first, Prabir or Maddy? And what will they find? An evolutionary leap forward, a new humanity or the evanescent ghosts of past lies?
'A crescendo of emotional power. It's as though a writer whose last several novels have been powered by stunning ideas has suddenly discovered that passions can be stunning too' Locus
'Rewards the reader with ever expanding vistas of wonder' New Scientist
'One of the genre's great ideas men' The Times
'Egan's future fascinates' SF Eye
'Achieves what the fiction of ideas should always aspire to' The Modern Review
'Science fiction as it should be' Odyssey
'Contains far too many ingenious notions to list ... Egan is a fiendishly clever fellow' Dave Langford, SFX
About The Author
Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He alternates programming contracts with stretches of full time writing. His short fiction has twice won Best Story of the Year in Interzone. He is a winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three times.
Visit the author's web site
Titles by Greg Egan at Amazon.co.uk

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