The Guardian Av J.D. Moyer

<i>“Complexity and moral ambiguity enough to make this a serious, engrossing story”–<b>Analog SF</b></i><br><br><b>Reclaimed Earth Book 2</b><br><br>In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations.<br><br>Tem, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation.<br> <br>Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana, the tentacle-enhanced Squid Woman , while protecting a secret that could change the course of humanity and civilization.<br><br>The Guardian, the <b>sequel to the The Sky Woman</b>, is a story of colliding worlds and the contested repopulation of a wild Earth.<b><br><br></b><b>FLAME TREE PRESS</b> is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.