Description

A literary descendent of Ursula K Le Guin Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet tenuous hope and an underlying warmth A HalfBuilt Garden depicts a world worth building towards a humanity worth saving from itself and an alien community worth entering with open arms Its not the easiest future to build but its one that just might be in reach

On a warm March night in 2083 Judy WallachStevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarmand stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologicallyravaged planet behind and join them among the stars And if humanity doesnt agree they may need to be saved by force

But the watershed networks that rose up to save the planet from corporate devastation arent ready to give up on Earth Decades ago they reorganized humanity around the hope of keeping the world livable By sharing the burden of decisionmaking theyve started to heal our wounded planet

Now corporations nationstates and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings and if anyone accepts the aliens offer Earth may be lost With everyones eyes turned skyward the future hinges on Judys effort to create understanding both within and beyond her own species

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books