Earth

By Ajani Abdul-Khaliq

A family of conspirators... and the world they saved.

Earth Engels-Hall grew up inside a beautiful secret. The daughter of former Spacetime Lab mates Ezra Hall and Fiona Weinhurst, she was raised not by two parents but by six (minus one)-a circle of visionaries who loved her, taught her, and prepared her, from her earliest years, to become the kind of leader who benefits all of society. To them, the optimistic fairy tale was real: clean solutions to humanity's hardest problems were possible. The only trick was making sure the world survived long enough to see them.

Now a popular teenager at an elite boarding school, "Bear" receives her first education in adult politics during the turbulent 2090s-a decade of global protest, a new world war, and the quiet arrival of military and mass mind control. Yet all is not as it seems. Sheltered behind the shield of her five remaining parents and an extended family of benevolent conspirators, Earth will help decide whether the forces threatening freedom are truly threats-or simply inevitable progress, guided from the shadows by the good guys, so the bad guys never get the chance to define it.

What if the people who seem to endanger your freedom are themselves controlled by those who actually protect it?

Earth follows the high-school years of an unlikely heiress to destiny as, alongside her family, she bends a broken political world toward something better-in ways that must stay largely hidden from the very public it saves.

This is where the Miranda origin story truly begins. Building on the hopeful turn after Cat, Fox, & Spider, the third Grand Miranda novel tackles far harder problems with far stranger solutions: a family that fuses philosophy and technology into a series of far-reaching safety nets for all of humanity. Grand Miranda is a vision rendered as fiction-a blueprint for a wiser future, tested not in essays but in the lives of the people who might one day build it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955275106
• ISBN13: 9781955275101
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Social Arts & Technical Alliance, LLC