![]() ![]() Well, when I finally put Terra down, I had to agree with Gaiman. Neil Gaiman compared it to Roald Dahl, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, three authors that have entertained me from childhood to adulthood. I was not sure what to make of this when I first picked it up. ![]() ![]() From her humanity.Īnd now eleven years later a girl called Terra is about to go to school for the first time. And in the wreckage of their car our alien discovers a baby girl. Understandably the Bradbury's crash (interrupting the latest in a constant procession of bitter rows). The occupants of a car travelling down a lonely road spot his ship (the sort of massive lemon coloured, lemon shaped starship that really shouldn't be hanging in the sky over a road). ![]() Best take a look while they're still there.īut on one trip to Rrth our alien biologist causes a horrendous accident. Not humanity, obviously, we're appalling, but until we manage to kill every other living thing on the planet there are some truly wonderful places on Rrth and some wonderful creatures living in them. That would be a complete disaster.īut one alien thinks Rrth is worth looking at. And certainly no-one is about to let us get off Rrth. No-one thinks we're worth a second thought. No-one can quite understand why we're intent on destroying the only place we have to live in the Universe. ![]()
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