Unearthing Idyll - Dhara Parekh

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Résumé :
Earth has gained its second moon-an asteroid called Zenith. In this harmonious, hollowed out colony, sunlight radiates from the roof and warmth beams through its citizens. Lyra, a second-generation Zenither and a self-contained individualist, has waited all her life to escape the asteroid and settle on Earth. On her way to the blue planet, Lyra's documents mysteriously disappear, and she is deported back to her homeland. Her only solace is a rancorous, self-serving Earthler friend, Aryabh-a hacker whose dreadful past is intertwined with the totalitarian government of the planet. Why is Lyra so desperate to leave an almost perfect world? How many plans will Aryabh concoct instead of confronting his demons? Before they unearth their idyll, they must determine their own role in their societies or end up never escaping their personal dystopia. Unearthing Idyll is a magnifying glass over two contrasting worlds. An introspective literary science fiction that opens a dialog about social identity, collectivism, and what it means to never fit into a society....

Biographie:
A current resident of San Diego, Dhara considers herself a nomad. She was born in one town of India, raised in two, and then moved to eleven more on three different continents, collecting stories from around the world in her sack of brain meat.She is a big sci-fi loving space-nerd. Fat business books didn't gratify her, and so she took solace in novels and the fictional worlds they brought along. Yet, the only way to maintain her sanity was to create worlds of her own. When her fingers aren't prancing on the keyboard, she is learning about the next fresh interest she has stumbled upon or reading fiction in a painful position or nibbling on Wikipedia or finding hacks to understand humans. An alien on the pale blue dot converting her bizarre thoughts into Times New Roman....