GROND: The Raven High
by Yuri Hamaganov
Genre: YA Scifi
Release Date: April 2017
Summary:
In the year 2086, Earth is exhausted. The seas
have been emptied, the bedrock and soil stripped of their resources, and the
superheated atmosphere churns with terrible storms. Those who can afford to do
so live in the limbo of virtual reality, and the billions who suffer in poverty
have no work, no clean water, and no security from the chaos.
The only hope for those trapped on a dying Earth
are the Changed—the seven bioengineered post-humans who work in their separate
manufacturing facilities orbiting high above the planet. Raised from birth for
their work and fully matured at ten years old, their genius provides the
nanomaterials that have begun to cleanse Earth of the pollutants that have
wiped out almost the entire ecosphere.
But for Olga Voronov, youngest of the Changed,
the isolation and endless toil are not the greatest of her challenges. Down on
Earth there are those who resent and fear her talents—and would prefer that
humanity not be given the second chance that only she could make possible …
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Guest Post:
What is your favorite time period? Please tell
us why this is your favorite time period.
The
Hagakure says:
"Although one would like to change
today’s world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be
done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”
The best
time for me, you and everyone else who lives now is today. The best and only
possible option. Awareness of this fact greatly simplifies life.
But,
despite the fact that my best day is today, this circumstance doesn’t prevent
me from loving other times. Each era, every century, and in the twentieth
century every decade has its own special charm, a choice for every taste.
And of
all the interesting times, my favorite is the beginning of the twentieth
century, from the year nine hundred and to the First World War.
The
world is changing so fast as never before. Baleen men in cylinders and
monocles, and ladies with umbrellas, in long dresses and huge hats very funny
and quickly move on the black and white frames of the silent chronicle.
Steamers and locomotives are everywhere, the heavenly kingdom for a steampunk
fan. Electric lighting everywhere replaces gas, telephone and radio become an
ordinary thing. A man learns to fly, swim under water and ride the earth faster
and faster. Great scientists create history in their laboratories. The era of
science fiction and comics begins, a fundamentally new kind of art is born - a
cinematograph. A great time when the belief in progress was stronger than ever.
Then
there will be August of the fourteenth year, and people belatedly realize that
progress has its own, heavy price. But it will be later. In the meantime, happy
and carefree people are very funny and quickly move on the black and white
frames of the silent chronicle.
All the
best,
Yuri
Hamaganov
About the Author:
Yuri Hamaganov lives in Moscow. He created the eight-volume
GROND series as a present for himself when he was twelve years old. This was
the story he had always dreamed of exploring, and when he realized that nobody
had written it for him, he set out to do it himself.
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