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Terra Insegura

Terra Insegura

Finalist for the 2010 Prix Aurora Award for best Canadian science fiction or fantasy novel in English.

The sequel to Marseguro, with cover art by Hugo Award winner Stephan Martiniere, published by DAW Books.

The publisher’s blurb:

Marseguro, a water world far from Earth, is home to a colony of humans and the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created from modified human DNA. For seventy years the colony has lived in peace. Then Earth discovers Marseguro, and a strike force is sent to eradicate this “abomination.” But Marseguro has created a genetically tailored plague to use against Earth’s Holy Warriors. With the enemy defeated, the people of Marseguro feel they are safe. But Chris Keating, the traitor who signaled Marseguro’s location to the Holy Warriors, has fled to Earth, unknowingly carrying the deadly plague within him. The people of Marseguro feel they must send a ship to Earth with a life-saving vaccine. Only time will tell what awaits them when they reach their destination.

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Reviews of Terra Insegura

From Ian Randal Strock at SF Scope: A little bleaker, a little less “gosh-wow” sensawunda (due to familiarity), a lot closer to home, Terra Insegurais the perfect balance to Marseguro: you’ve got to read this one if you read the first. It does stand on its own, but why deny yourself the pleasure of the full …

The first two chapters of Terra Insegura

Chapter One Listen to Ed read Chapter One  Bump. Emily Wood jerked awake in the pilot’s chair of the tiny sub, heart pounding. Her eyes flicked over the control panel, searching for red lights that would indicate they’d hit something. But nothing had changed. All the indicators still glowed green. The sub continued to purr …

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