With everyone's eyes turned skyward, the future hinges on Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her own species. an early black and white picture of the capitol building half-built as it. Now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if anyone accepts the aliens' offer, Earth may be lost. The corporates have retreated to a bunch of artificial islands where they continue to develop products they hope they can sell to the rest of the world. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they've started to heal our wounded planet. A Half-Built Garden is a near-future science fiction novel set in a world in which environmental campaigners have fought back against multi-national corporations and won.

Decades ago, they reorganized humanity around the hope of keeping the world liveable. On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be saved by force.īut the watershed networks that rose up to save the planet from corporate devastation aren't ready to give up on Earth. A Half-Built Gardendepicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm-and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. Washingtons elder half-brother Lawrence lived at. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. George Washingtons father, Augustine Washington, built a modest one and a half story house there in 1734. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth.

A half built garden