Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before...
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A ne...
-A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art.---The New York Times A haunting novel exploring the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz the -real- Dorothy Gale; Judy Garland's unhappy fame; and Jonathan, a dying actor, and his therapist, whose work at an asylum unwittingly intersects with the Yellow Brick Road. Geoff Ryman is the author of The King's Last Song, Air, The Child Garden, The Unconquered Country, and Paradise Tales. He has lived in Cambodia and Brazil,...
-A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art.---The New York Times A haunting novel explor...
