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Cover art: Greg Egan
Blurb: “EGAN IS PERHAPS SF'S MOST COMMITTED RATIONALIST IN THE MOLD OF RICHARD DAWKINS. IF IT CANNOT BE MEASURED, WEIGHED, AND ANALYZED, FOR EGAN IT DOES NOT EXIST....
TERANESIA SHOWS WHY THE GENRE NEEDS HIM."
—COLIN HARVEY, STRANGE HORIZONS
ON TERANESIA, BIZARRE BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION HAS CREATED A WORLD BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND DEADLY.
Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhusree, live on a remote South Pacific island called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genetic mutation among the island's butterflies. Then civil war erupts across Indonesia, shattering their idyllic world and breaking the family apart.
Twenty years later, Prabir is still plagued by feelings of guilt and an overwhelming responsibility for his sister, now a biologist herself. Against her brother's advice, Madhusree is returning to Teranesia to solve the mystery of the butterflies and study strange new plant and animal species that have been emerging throughout the region-species separated from their known cousins by dramatic mutations that seem far too efficient to have arisen by chance.
Afraid for Madhusree's safety, Prabir joins forces with independent scientist Martha Grant to find her. But what he will discover on Teranesia is far more dangerous and wondrous than he can ever fear-or imagine.
GREG EGAN is a computer programmer, and the author of the acclaimed SF novels Permutation City, Distress, Quarantine, and the Orthogonal trilogy, all published by Night Shade Books. He has won the Hugo Award as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Egan's short fiction has been published in a variety of places, including Interzone, Asimov's, and Nature. He lives in Perth, Australia.”