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Greg Egan | 304 pages | 31 Jul 2008 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575083332 | English | London, United Kingdom Teranesia : A Novel - -

Report incorrect product information. . Walmart Free 2-day delivery. Pickup not available. Add to list. Add to registry. But their peaceful time on Teranesia is cut short when a civil war breaks out in Indonesia, forcing Prabir and his family to flee. She wishes to follow in the path of her parents, hoping to pick up where their research had been halted. Prabir, still feeling a great responsibility over his sister, highly advises her not to go back to Teranesia. But the mutations that happened during their time on the island overpower Madhusree's curiosity, and she goes against her brother's wishes. Not knowing what to expect, Prabir discovers the island to be more enchanting, and dangerous, than he could have ever imagined. About This Item. We aim to show you accurate product information. Manufacturers, suppliers and others provide what you see here, and we have not verified it. See our disclaimer. Discover the mystery of the island of Teranesia, where peculiar biological evolution has created a world both beautiful and deadly. On the small uninhabited island of Teranesia, Prabir and his younger sister Madhusree live with their biologist parents, who are there to study the strange signs of evolutionary mutation in the island's butterfly population. Twenty years pass, and Madhusree is now studying biology. Struck with overwhelming feelings of responsibility, Prabir finds it as his duty to follow his sister, and travels back to Teranesia for the first time in twenty years. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia , fantasy grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history , and horror zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural , and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Specifications Publisher Night Shade. Write a review See all reviews Write a review. Most helpful positive review. Average Rating: 4. See more. Most helpful negative review. Average Rating: 2. I have to say this book was pretty dissapointing compared to the other works of his I've read. It spent far too long attacking a notion of modern scholarship that was clearly a parody - if he wanted to attack postmodernism he should have either stuck with the evidently ridiculous parody, or actually have the characters attack actual postmodernism; instead what he did was create a ridiculous strawman and then have his characters attack that, thereby making it look like he had no idea what he was talking about. Frequent mentions. February 18, Reviewed by igor. Written by a librarything. August 30, Reviewed by xenoi xenoi. August 3, Reviewed by pretygrrl pretygrrl. Average Rating: 3. February 11, October 19, Reviewed by locrianRhapsody locrianRhapsody. See all 6 reviews. Ask a question Ask a question If you would like to share feedback with us about pricing, delivery or other customer service issues, please contact customer service directly. Your question required. Additional details. Send me an email when my question is answered. Please enter a valid email address. I agree to the Terms and Conditions. Cancel Submit. Pricing policy About our prices. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. August Learn how and when to remove this template message. Categories : Australian novels - winning works Novels by Greg Egan Australian science fiction novels science fiction novels Victor Gollancz Ltd books s science fiction novel stubs. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles lacking in-text citations from August All articles lacking in-text citations All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Teranesia: A Novel by Greg Egan, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

The man is present, dominant, imperious. This blatantly sexist coding underpins all modern digital technology! View all 4 comments. All things considered, Teranesia is a novel composed of a number of interesting parts that somehow don't seem to fuse into a cohesive narrative. The main character has his moments, the science is at times absolutely thought-provoking, the satire makes one grin at several occasions, but all of that is not enough to make this a successful novel. Structurally, the narrative has so many problems that the components remain interesting loose bits of information that do not manage to create somethin Structurally, the narrative has so many problems that the components remain interesting loose bits of information that do not manage to create something more than the sum of its parts. Interesting as the scientific speculation is, the book doesn't fulfil its potential. I thought it was a mildly disappointing read. Full, quite spoilerish Random Comments review Teranesia is unapologetic . At the end of the day, his books make you think quite literally, to understand the science driving them. There is substance behind the big words he uses, as I discovered after several Wikipedia searches and at least one academic paper. Very few authors, or books, will leave you with an idea that you turn over in your head over the next weeks. Egan does that. Now, thoughts on the common criticisms: The characters and plot as a pretense for the science: Ok, a fair criticism. The science really takes the spotlight here, and for good reason. Egan thinks through some interesting ideas, and the plot and themes follow the beat set by the science. Are the two perfectly integrated? Not quite — but this is tough to do. If it successfully pulled this off, this would be a 5 star book See certain books by Neal Stephenson or Vernor Vinge. That being said, I actually found the main character rather compelling: war torn, self-reflective, and plot-drivingly gay. Critical of the humanities: In this book, Greg Egan uses some bullshit-spouting humanities-types as comic relief. Yes, they are straw men. Yes, they are a little indulgent. But they are also funny, and oddly prophetic for a book that is 20 years old. Jan 09, Peter Tillman added it Shelves: science-fiction , reread-list , to-read-maybe. I have only dim memories of this book. I wonder if I really read it? Does get mixed, but generally good, marks here. OK, I'll send off for the library copy Fortunately, the Sta Paula branch is reliable for holding onto their old books IB they just acn't afford many new boojs! View 1 comment. Mar 07, Tomislav rated it really liked it Shelves: science-fiction. This is a really amazing book. But civil war breaks out and their lives are shattered. Twenty years later in Toronto, Prabir remains plagued by feelings of guilt and responsibility for his sister. Madhusree is now a biologist herself and wants to return to the island. What's amazing is that E This is a really amazing book. What's amazing is that Egan has created both a very strong character in Prabir, and speculates an interesting combination of evolutionary biology with the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. I thought this book was well on its way to being one of those few have-it-all sf novels, and then he had to go and have an abrupt and meaningless ending. What a shame. Very interesting story! Completely not what I expected, but fun and interesting. Complex relationships, main character, and particularly interesting speculative biology Nov 28, Phil rated it liked it. Very slow but pulls the grand finale ending in the last 20 pages or so. Points for some original ideas and a strong young female character. Jan 31, Gary Baker rated it it was ok. This book was sent to me by a mystery philanthropist in South Africa. Actually, I have a pretty good idea who sent it. It took almost three months to get here. Three months. Roll on quantatronic matter transfer machines I say. This is lifted from the cover: As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evoluti This book was sent to me by a mystery philanthropist in South Africa. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister. Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to take him along as a guide. I'm undecided about this one. It was entertaining but - and this may be down to my appalling memory of whatever happened at the beginning - the protagonist somehow developed an intimate understanding of genetics by the end of the book. It is well written but there are times when I don't believe the cause and effect, such-and-such happened to this character so he reacts by doing whatever. I didn't quite buy it sometimes. And there's a scene with a snake which didn't seem to move the plot along or enlighten me at all. The author seems to know a shed-load about genetics. Do you ever watch House? The TV show? Part of the pleasure for watching House, for me, is the bewildering language the doctors use when trying to figure out whatever is wrong with the patient. Not too much. Just enough to make you me feel stupid. All-in-all a pretty good read but erring on the side of 'meh'. I'd be interested in what you think. I have another Greg Egan, Distress, which has been entertaining dust-bunnies on my shelf for several years. I'll read that shortly as the guy seems to have a lot of fans. View 2 comments. Originally published on my blog here in December The first, one which has tended the ghettoisation of science fiction as a genre considered suitable only for adolescents, is the coming of age story of a precocious teenager. Central character Prabir Suresh is certainly precocious, but his adolescent years are omitted - in part one he is not yet a Originally published on my blog here in December Central character Prabir Suresh is certainly precocious, but his adolescent years are omitted - in part one he is not yet a teenager, and in part two and the rest of the novel he is in his twenties. Prabir is an interesting central character not just because a homosexual non-Caucasian hero is unusual in genre fiction, and his personality is made more central than the idea. This is why it takes almost the whole novel for it to become clear just what its main idea actually is. In part one, Prabir is a nine year old child, living on an otherwise deserted Indonesian island with his biologist parents and baby sister; his parents are there to investigate some strange mutations in the butterflies of the region. Political instability becomes civil war, and armed men kill the adults; the children are able to escape and end up in Canada with their aunt made a figure of fun by Egan for her post-modern relativist ideas. In part two, about fifteen years later, Prabir has a strong emotional reaction when his sister now a student wants to join an expedition to that part of Indonesia, where abnormalities are beginning to be observed in a wider range of animals. Things seem to be heading towards a bleak finish rather similar to Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, when a frankly unconvincing happy ending is suddenly contrived. It undermines the whole novel, leaving the reader unsatisfied. Up until the last ten pages, Teranesia is a most enjoyable read, better than most genre novels. Apr 04, Mark Mirmelstein rated it it was amazing. The last sentence of the book brought from 3 stars to be 5 stars. This is the second book I read by Greg Egan, after reading Distress ages ago and purchasing most of his books up to now, but never having the time to dwell upon them. While mostly reading hard sci-fi, I don't read much hard biology sci-fi. This is simply because I prefer my hard to be physics. However, in spite of that, the book did not fail me. What made me finally approach to this book specifically, rather than Permutation City, Di The last sentence of the book brought from 3 stars to be 5 stars. What made me finally approach to this book specifically, rather than Permutation City, Diaspora or many of his other books that await me on my bookshelves, is that I wanted to read hist almost first novel, and see how he treated the gay character. Luckily, I wasn't disappointed. This books is not for everyone. Even when I'm not a biologist, the science in the book didn't scare me away, however I was also not drawn into it, unlike it would've been with physics. I ended up caring more about the mystery and the characters. That, until a glimpse into physics occurred, and I was finally able to fully enjoy the book. The central idea is the same: peculiar mutations are occurring which will not only upset evolutionary biology but also perhaps imperil the future of humanity. See more. Most helpful negative review. Average Rating: 2. I have to say this book was pretty dissapointing compared to the other works of his I've read. It spent far too long attacking a notion of modern scholarship that was clearly a parody - if he wanted to attack postmodernism he should have either stuck with the evidently ridiculous parody, or actually have the characters attack actual postmodernism; instead what he did was create a ridiculous strawman and then have his characters attack that, thereby making it look like he had no idea what he was talking about. Frequent mentions. February 18, Reviewed by igor. Written by a librarything. August 30, Reviewed by xenoi xenoi. August 3, Reviewed by pretygrrl pretygrrl. Average Rating: 3. February 11, October 19, Reviewed by locrianRhapsody locrianRhapsody. See all 6 reviews. Ask a question Ask a question If you would like to share feedback with us about pricing, delivery or other customer service issues, please contact customer service directly. Your question required. Additional details. Send me an email when my question is answered. Please enter a valid email address. I agree to the Terms and Conditions. Cancel Submit. Pricing policy About our prices. We're committed to providing low prices every day, on everything. So if you find a current lower price from an online retailer on an identical, in-stock product, tell us and we'll match it. See more details at Online Price Match. Related Pages :. Email address. Mobile apps. Walmart Services. Get to Know Us. Teranesia is his kingdom, shared only with his biologist parents and baby sister Madhusree. When civil war breaks out across Indonesia, this paradise comes to a violent end. The mystery of the butterflies remains unsolved, but nearly twenty years later reports begin to appear of strange new species of plants and animals being found throughout the region — species separated from their known cousins by recent, dramatic mutations that seem far too useful to have arisen by chance from pollution, disease, or any other random catastrophe. Weekend reading: Teranesia - TechRepublic

See details. Overview Discover the mystery of the island of Teranesia, where peculiar biological evolution has created a world both beautiful and deadly. But their peaceful time on Teranesia is cut short when a civil war breaks out in Indonesia, forcing Prabir and his family to flee. Twenty years pass, and Madhusree is now studying biology. She wishes to follow in the path of her parents, hoping to pick up where their research had been halted. Prabir, still feeling a great responsibility over his sister, highly advises her not to go back to Teranesia. Struck with overwhelming feelings of responsibility, Prabir finds it as his duty to follow his sister, and travels back to Teranesia for the first time in twenty years. Not knowing what to expect, Prabir discovers the island to be more enchanting, and dangerous, than he could have ever imagined. Product Details About the Author. He has won the as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He lives in Perth, Australia. Not knowing what to expect, Prabir discovers the island to be more enchanting, and dangerous, than he could have ever imagined. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia , fantasy grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history , and horror zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural , and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. By clicking 'Sign me up' I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use. Must redeem within 90 days. See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. Sign up and get a free eBook! Trade Paperback. Table of Contents Rave and Reviews. About The Book. About The Author. Greg Egan. Product Details. Raves and Reviews.

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Table of Contents Rave and Reviews. About The Book. About The Author. Greg Egan. Product Details. Raves and Reviews. Resources and Downloads. Get a FREE e-book by joining our mailing list today! More books from this author: Greg Egan. See more by Greg Egan. The ground was covered with small blue flowers, olive-green creepers, low ferns with drooping leaves; some of the plants were extremely tough, but they were rarely thorny. That made sense: there was nothing trying to graze on them. The ground became increasingly steep and rocky, and the forest began to thin out around him. More and more sunlight penetrated between the trees, and the undergrowth became dry and coarse. The trees vanished. He scrambled up the bare obsidian slope of the volcano. After a few minutes in the open, his skin had baked dry; he could feel tiny pulses of sweat, too small to form visible droplets, appear on his forearms and instantly evaporate. In the forest his shorts had been soaked through with perspiration; now the material stiffened like cardboard, and issued a curious laundered smell. They should have added some UV-absorbing chemical to his mosquito pellet, sparing him the trouble of applying the stuff externally. The sky was bleached white; when he raised his face to the sun it was like staring into a furnace — closing his eyes was useless, he had to shield himself with his arms. But once he was high enough above the forest to see past the tallest trees, Prabir emitted a parched whoop of elation. The sea stretched out beneath him, like the view from an aeroplane. The beach was still hidden, but he could see the shallows, the reef, the deeper water beyond. Prabir scanned the horizon. Shielding his eyes from the glare allowed enough perspiration to form to run down his brow and half blind him. Exasperated, he blinked away tears and squinted, ignoring the pain, until he was convinced that there was no land in sight. On the basis of vegetation patterns in satellite images, his mother had estimated that the volcano had been dormant for at least a few thousand years, but Prabir had decided that lava was circulating just beneath the surface of the crater, waiting to break free. There were probably fire eagles up there, pecking through the thin crust to get at the molten rock. They could be swooping over him even as he climbed; because they glowed as brightly as the sun, they cast no shadows. When an ambiguous grey smudge finally appeared between the sky and the sea, Prabir just smiled and closed his eyes. Then he found a sharp-edged rock and scraped a line at the place, as best he could judge, where the distant island first appeared. Then he could work backwards to determine the effects of refraction. Carving his initials seemed childish, so he scratched the date: 10 December He headed back towards the forest in a happy daze, slipping and cutting his hands on the rocks twice, not really caring. He had as much claim to stay as his parents, now. The afternoon thunderstorm came from the north, behind him as he descended. Prabir looked up as the first swollen droplets splashed onto the rocks around him, and saw dazzling beads of white light against the clouds. Then the fire eagles rose up out of the storm, leaving the sky a uniform grey. P rabir arrived back in the kampung around three. No one had missed him; when there was no school he went where he pleased, with his watch to call for help if he needed it. He was exhausted, and slightly nauseous; he went straight to his hut and collapsed into his hammock. His father woke him, standing by the hammock in the grey light of dusk, speaking his name softly. Prabir was startled; he was meant to help prepare the evening meal, but he could already smell it cooking. Why had they let him sleep so late? How are you feeling? His father looked unusually solemn; was he going to announce the decision to pack him off to boarding school, here and now? Will you do that? His father made a weary, disgusted noise. Sittings of the MPR have been suspended; there are about a thousand people holding a vigil outside. The security forces have left them alone so far, which is something. The police tried to stop it. Someone was shot, then the crowd started trashing government buildings. Forty-six people died, according to the World Service. And it will be the last straw for many people. Prabir struggled to read between the lines. His father winced. His father tipped his head towards the door. Prabir hesitated. Irian Jaya. Irian Jaya and the Moluccas had been annexed by Indonesia when the Dutch withdrew in the middle of the last century; both were Christian to some degree, and both had separatist movements determined to follow East Timor into independence. Aceh, at the north-west tip of Sumatra, was a different case altogether — the Muslim separatists there considered the government to be too secular by far — and Kalimantan was different again, with a long, complicated history of migrations and conquests. The President had told him to moderate his language, but apparently the army had decided that this was exactly the kind of language they liked. His father squatted down beside him, and lowered his voice. But he knew why. Even if the government was willing to walk away from the more troublesome provinces, there are people making vast amounts of money from concessions that date back to the Suharto era. And that includes a lot of generals. Suddenly he scooped Prabir into his arms, then lifted him up, right over his head. But he backed out of the hut smoothly, crouching down to fit the two of them through the doorway, then spun around slowly as he carried Prabir laughing across the kampung, under the palm leaves and the wakening stars. Madhusree smiled conspiratorially. Out on the reef! Her face lit up. Prabir was in trouble. That woman is deranged. Come the revolution. Prabir Suresh lives in paradise, a nine-year-old boy with an island all his own: to name, to explore, and to populate with imaginary creatures stranger than any exotic tropical wildlife. Teranesia is his kingdom, shared only with his biologist parents and baby sister Madhusree. When civil war breaks out across Indonesia, this paradise comes to a violent end.

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