The Seeds That Built the Sky (eBook)

A Symphony of Coexistence

Adriana Cortez (Autor)

Ai (Herausgeber)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
274 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-072128-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The ochre sun bleeds across a dying Earth, casting long shadows on the Whispering Forest, last refuge of the ancient redwoods.  Here lives Kavi Tlayuka, her veins pulsing with the green fire of symbiotic algae, a legacy of generations of human-plant interdependence.  But the whispers of the trees are fading, choked by poisoned air. Chosen by the Elders, Kavi becomes custodian of Earth's last seeds - seeds of redwood, sequoia, and the very algae that binds her to her world.  Her mission: to sow these seeds among the stars aboard the *Ishka*, a living bioship grown from the heartwood of Earth's last giants.
Kavi's crew is as fractured as their home planet.  Elara, a disgraced xeno-mycologist, seeks redemption.  Asher, a performance artist mourning Earth, sees the mission as a cosmic canvas. Anya, a spiritual leader, searches for divine connection among the stars.  And Silas, the ship's engineer, harbors a dark resentment towards Earth's perceived recklessness - a resentment that will soon threaten them all.
Their journey leads them to Xylos, a planet veiled in nebulae, home to bioluminescent fungal beings - the Xy'lians - whose language is a symphony of light and color.  The Xy'lians are captivated by the *Ishka* but wary of the seeds, seeing them not as a gift but as a potential infection.
Kavi, able to commune with Earth's trees through her very DNA, becomes an interspecies diplomat.  Her journey takes her to the mycelial heart of Xylos, where she uncovers a startling truth: the Xy'lians share a primordial ancestry with Earth, a connection echoing across billions of years. But this discovery throws the mission into turmoil. Is their mission conservation or cosmic colonialism?
Within the *Ishka*, tensions escalate. Elara's ambition blinds her to the dangers of her experiments. Asher's artistic zeal spirals into obsession. Anya's spiritual quest becomes a catalyst for dissent. And Silas's resentment festers into a dangerous plot.
Caught between a dying world and a vibrant new one, Kavi must not only navigate alien diplomacy but also quell the rising dissent within her own crew.  Then another discovery changes everything: the Xy'lians face their own existential threat - a creeping fungal blight. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-072128-X / 000072128X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-072128-0 / 9780000721280