Once We Flew - Lee, Nikky
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Four generations ago a generation ship crashed into the sands of Savene. Since then, its survivors have eked out an existence in the planet's hostile desert. Yet, the tech is failing, the sands are encroaching, and people are dying. Rescue is still generations away-if it comes at all. But Marsa is a survivor. And an outcast. Infected with the Chrysalis-a disease that grants its carriers uncanny abilities-she keeps her distance from her dwindling community. Until an old friend's dying wish sends her and a young boy across Savene's inhospitable sands in search of something Marsa had thought she'd long forgotten. Hope.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Four generations ago a generation ship crashed into the sands of Savene. Since then, its survivors have eked out an existence in the planet's hostile desert. Yet, the tech is failing, the sands are encroaching, and people are dying. Rescue is still generations away-if it comes at all. But Marsa is a survivor. And an outcast. Infected with the Chrysalis-a disease that grants its carriers uncanny abilities-she keeps her distance from her dwindling community. Until an old friend's dying wish sends her and a young boy across Savene's inhospitable sands in search of something Marsa had thought she'd long forgotten. Hope.
Autorenporträt
Nikky Lee is an award-winning author who grew up as a barefoot 90s kid in Perth, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand with a husband, a dog and a couch potato cat. In her free time, she writes speculative fiction, often burning the candle at both ends to explore fantastic worlds, mine asteroids and meet wizards. She's had over two dozen stories published in magazines, anthologies and on the radio. Her short fiction has been shortlisted six times in the Aurealis Awards with her novelette Dingo & Sister winning the Best Young Adult Short Story and the Best Fantasy Novella categories in 2020. In 2021, she received a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. Her debut novel, The Rarkyn's Familiar, won the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel, three 2022 Indie Ink Awards, Bronze in Young Adult Fiction at the 2022 Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Awards, and was a finalist in the 2022 Aurealis Awards for Best Young Adult Novel.