It's the best of environmentalism versus the worst of capitalism, with world-building so well done that by the time you get to the subplot about the train falling in love with the cat, it won't even seem strange to you, and your reaction will simply be, "Aw, they make such a sweet couple." This is Newitz's best work yet. We're following the story of the Rangers charged with forming and protecting the environment of a developing planet, and the corporations whose goal is selling that planet as homo sapiens-only vacation properties for the very wealthy. In this universe, "people" might be almost anyone, hominids, animals, or artificial intelligences. A cozy sprawling epic should be impossible, and yet, here it is, just waiting for you to add a nice hot beverage and a very, very long bath. But this book is a long, sprawling epic, telling the story of the terraforming of a whole planet over thousands of years. One of the blurbs I saw for this book suggested it for fans of Becky Chambers, and I get it, because, like Chambers, this book is a character-focused, optimistic look at a possible future in which people take care of each other in a world of very cool technologies. But when they're threatened with violent diaspora, Misha and Sulfur's very unusual child faces a stark choice: deploy a planet-altering weapon, or watch their people lose everything they've built on Sask-E. Working with a team of robots, naked mole rats, and a very angry cyborg cow, they quietly sow seeds of subversion. Together, they uncover a dark secret about the real estate company that's buying up huge swaths of the planet―a secret that could destroy the lives of everyone who isn't Homo sapiens. Torn between loyalty to the ERT and the truth of the planet's history, Destry makes a decision that echoes down the generations.Ĭenturies later, Destry's protege, Misha, is building a planetwide transit system when his worldview is turned upside-down by Sulfur, a brilliant engineer from the volcano city. But then she discovers a city that isn't supposed to exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. On the planet Sask-E, her mission is to terraform an Earthlike world, with the help of her taciturn moose, Whistle. Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted to preventing ecosystem collapse.
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