In a retro-futuristic America, ten-year-old Byron “Boon” Barnett boards a rocket-ship with his family for a move to the Moon. The Barnetts are a contemporary clan: Mr. Barnett is Anglo; Mrs. Barnett (the former Bianca Barcelona) a Latina; Boon’...
In a city levitating among the clouds, a translator of ancient languages casts his mind down to the surface of a long uninhabited earth and six thousand years into the past to tell the tale of Asha, a possibly mythical, possibly factual princess, or ...