Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. A best Young Adult book of 2012.2788.Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2013.

Booklist starred review for being outstanding in its genre.Kirkus starred review for a book of exceptional merit.She’s an “ape,” a “throwback,” but this is one ape girl who won’t give in. Jarra was sent to Earth at birth to save her life and abandoned by her parents.

except for the unfortunate few whose immune system can’t handle living anywhere else but Earth. The EARTH GIRL trilogy is science fiction for both adult and older young adult readers, set in a distant future where humanity portals between hundreds of colony worlds. (Best read after the short story Hera 2781, and the novel-length Hestia 2781 and Array 2781.) The completed Drago Tell Dramis sequence set in 2781 This extra-long novel concludes the Drago Tell Dramis 2781 sequence of Hera 2781, Hestia 2781, Array 2781, and Sol 2781. Are three members of the Tell clan really the critical mass that resolves cataclysmic events?

As the danger mounts, the question is whether Drago and his two cousins, Jaxon and Gemelle, can prove an alternative theory. There’s a joke that says one birth member of the Tell clan attracts trouble, two birth members of the Tell clan invite minor disasters, while three is the critical mass that triggers cataclysmic events.

As Drago hits orbital levels of fury, and declares his own personal war against Hospital Earth, he’s hit by even more unexpected problems. The arrest of a member of the main board of Hospital Earth has consequences though. Major Drago Tell Dramis is celebrating the fact that the saboteur has been caught, and the Earth solar arrays will be safe now. Janet Edwards’s latest release is Sol 2781, the third of three novel-length sequels to the short story Hera 2781. Welcome to the author site for the English Science Fiction and Fantasy writer Janet Edwards.

Earth Girl by Janet Edwards