With everyone's eyes turned skyward, everything hinges on the success of Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her own species. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they've started to heal the wounded planet.īut now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if anyone accepts the aliens' offer, Earth may be lost. Decades ago, they rose up to exile the last corporations to a few artificial islands, escape the dominance of nation-states, and reorganize humanity around the hope of keeping their world liveable. The watershed networks aren't ready to give up on Earth. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be saved by force.
These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm-and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. A Half-Built Garden begins at first contact with friendly extraterrestrials who have traveled many lightyears to Earth to save the human race.
Its not the easiest future to build, but. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach.Ī Half-Built Garden deserves to be the first contact novel that defines a generation. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth.
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