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As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister.

Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to take him along as a guide.

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30 December 2010
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“Cognitive wonder at its challenging best.” —Locus --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has won the John W. Campbell award for Best Novel and has been short listed for the Hugo three times. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004JHY8IA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz (30 December 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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MattS

I'm glad I read it, but...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2017

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Enjoyable story, and certainly sparked a sense of wonder. Found myself wishing I had studied a lot more biology and genetics. I had a definite sense that the weird idea came first, then a story was wrapped around it. The story finishes a bit abruptly, much was left to my imagination that I would love to have seen explored. Compared to my very favourite of Greg Egan's books (Diaspora) this is not in the same league.

But... it's a Greg Egan, and there are not many people who write books like this, so read it anyway. Maybe 3 stars is a bit harsh.
Reminded me a little bit of the Descolada / Pequininos parts of the later books in the Enders Game series (Speaker for the Dead).

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白い砂，青い海，珊瑚礁

Reviewed in Japan on 21 January 2006

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まばゆい太陽。前作ディアスポーラが壮大で，抽象的な宇宙曼荼羅を見事に描ききったのに対して，今度は「これってSF？」というほどに，現実世界に戻ってまいりました。南の島に突然出現した新種の生物。その原因を求めてモレキュラーバイオロジストたちが探検に向かいます。次々に明らかになる新しいファウナ，新しい進化のメカニズム。BIO, EVOLV, TAXA系の人には読みやすいでしょう。ただし，今回の仕掛けは，少しその方面の知識のある人にとっては，ものすごく説得力があるというほどでもないかも？まぁいいか。

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Jenny

... stars for anything because at this point I just love his voice

Reviewed in the United States on 3 June 2017

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I can't really imagine myself giving Egan fewer than 5 stars for anything because at this point I just love his voice. This is my sixth book of his I've read since Halloween, when I was gifted Permutation City.
Terenesia, I would say, is perhaps his most sweet and lovely -- the scene of Prabir and Madhusree at the beach and their beautiful understanding... The almost circular storytelling and, as always, drama that does not made me feel taken advantage of. (Perhaps this is why people feel it's boring or ineffectual; to them I say, "I think it's you.")
He is the king of subtlety in his plots, interpersonal communication, motifs... and his philosophies so align with mine I feel his works are a blessing to all of us (though do we believe in blessings anyway?)
Egan if you're out there, I wonder how you feel about the work of the late Denis Johnson. Other than a couple of my friends you and he stand side by side as my favorite writers.
Thank you.

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Ron Kropp

taking too long to unfold, but still fantastic!

Reviewed in the United States on 24 November 2014

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I had to give up on this book, about 40% through. An interesting story, with interesting people, but no sci-fi yet. I'm sure sure it's there, somewhere in the last half of the book. I just lost interest.

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A few weeks later, I picked-up where I left-off, and I am glad I did. Some fascinating concepts with genetics and quantum entanglement. Literally gave me goose bumps, and a cold, shivering chill, as the "science" of Teranesia unfolded. I would love to see a 2nd novel pick-up where this story ended.

Kindle is quite helpful, when reading Greg Egan's books. I find myself selecting words, phrases, concepts, and places, then using the built-in dictionary, and also Wikipedia, and the Web, to research and learn. It's a great challenge, having to "think", to understand the tech in his books.

Andrew X. Lias

Hard Science + Good Characterization = Great Story

Reviewed in the United States on 27 October 1999

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Make no mistake, this is a character driven novel. Some of Egan's fans have apparently been put off by this. Don't be. This is a hard SF book, through and through, and it goes a long way towards dispelling the myth that hard science in SF means shallow plotting and characterizations. The central biological mystery, in particular, has a very satisfying and imaginative resolution.
Egan says that he'll be returning to dense physics in his next book, but that he's going to continue striving to make plot and character central elements of his works. I find this a refreshing attitude and wish him luck in doing so.

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