false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264163m/156787.jpg 156787 12 Nine-year-old Prabir Suresh lives alone with his baby sister, Madhusree, and his biologist parents on a tropical Indonesian isle. Teranesia is so small and remote, it's not on the maps, and its strange native species of butterfly remained undiscovered until the 21st century. Prabir never wants to leave, but war forces him to flee with Madhusree. He believes he has saved his sister--until she returns to Indonesia, a grad student seeking to carry on their parents' forgotten work, pursuing reports of strange new plant and animal species. Prabir follows, to discover birds and orchids even stranger than the butterflies: mutants that are evidence of frightfully sped-up evolutionary changes with no discernable cause.<p> Greg Egan has received the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He was widely considered the best SF author of the '90s, and one publication (<I>Science Fiction Weekly</I>) has named him "perhaps the most important SF writer in the world"--high praise, but not unjustified. For evidence, check out not only <I>Teranesia</I>, but works like <I>Diaspora</I>, <I>Distress</I>, and <I>Quarantine</I>. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I> 1270556 1999 Teranesia total:101|5:7|4:33|3:38|2:19|1:4| 101 323 165 10 2 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 12:39:46 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 21:12:30 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 01:49:16 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 01:49:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Oct 19 06:37:28 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 07:04:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 12:50:43 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 12:56:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 03 09:42:59 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 09:47:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Aug 22 18:03:10 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 18:03:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 29 00:55:52 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 00:55:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 15 21:24:36 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 01:17:28 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 15:31:38 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 08:30:35 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 09:33:33 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 12:34:13 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Nov 29 00:16:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 00:16:23 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 20:22:26 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 20:22:27 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 21 08:02:28 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 08:02:28 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 19:34:19 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 19:34:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 19:34:16 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 19:34:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 15:28:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 15:28:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 05:38:34 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 05:38:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 19:07:11 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:07:11 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Oct 25 22:36:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 22:36:00 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:23:58 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 00:23:58 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=156787