Eveningstar

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>You don't start a revolution. It starts inside you.</strong></p><p></p><p>It is one hundred years since an Alien empire known as the Hegemony has conquered Earth. The sea level has been raised 750 metres to accommodate a sanctuary for a community of mysterious whale-like creatures called dunkas. The surviving human population lives on the remaining islands and archipelagos divided into timezones - recreations of different periods in human history designed to allow the Hegemony to better understand the Earthling condition.</p><p></p><p>In the E21 (Early 21st Century) Zone Sofia Rian works as a low-ranking clerk in the Earthling Welfare Office on the island city of Eveningstar. She prides herself on doing the right thing: work hard; contribute to society; follow the rules even those written by their Alien overlords. But when she discovers she's pregnant with a hybrid child the father a high-ranking Alien named Roland Sofia is forced to reckon with the system she's helped uphold and the full cost of collaboration.</p><p></p><p>As rebellion stirs and Sofia's choices ripple outwards to affect family and friends she must decide between survival and that most dangerous of dreams: the promise of a better world.</p><p></p><p>For fans of Octavia Butler Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel <em>Eveningstar </em>is a bold and unflinching speculative fiction debut - a literary dystopia exploring power compromise and what it means to be human. </p><p></p><p></p>